
Jake Adelstein has been an investigative journalist in Japan since 1993 and low-ranking Zen Buddhist priest since 2017—and is unlikely to ever achieve satori. That's okay. He's considered one of the foremost experts on organized crime in Japan and works as a writer and consultant in Japan, the United States and France. He is the author of Tokyo Vice: A Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan (Vintage) and has written two other books published by Marchialy in France. 𝗝’𝗔𝗜 𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗨 𝗠𝗢𝗡 𝗔̂𝗠𝗘 𝗘𝗡 𝗕𝗜𝗧𝗖𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗦 (I Sold My Soul For Bitcoins) 2019
Series
Books

Tokyo Noir
in and out of Japan's underworld
2024

The Last Yakuza
A Life in the Japanese Underworld
2016

Pay the Devil in Bitcoin
The Creation of a Cryptocurrency and How Half a Billion Dollars of It Vanished from Japan
2017

Japan
The Passenger
2018

Reconstructing 3/11
Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown - how Japan's future depends on its understanding of the 2011 triple disaster
2012

Tokyo Vice
An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
2009