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Jake Adelstein has been an investigative journalist in Japan since 1993 and low-ranking Zen Buddhist priest since 2017βand 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. πβππ π©ππ‘ππ¨ π π’π‘ πΜπ π ππ‘ πππ§ππ’ππ‘π¦ (I Sold My Soul For Bitcoins) 2019
Cryptocurrency Crimes and the Japanese Connection
2025
How an FBI Jewish-Japanese Special Agent Snared a Yakuza Boss in Hawaii
2015
2023
46: Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake
2011
in and out of Japan's underworld
2024
A Life in the Japanese Underworld
2016
The Creation of a Cryptocurrency and How Half a Billion Dollars of It Vanished from Japan
2017
The Passenger
2018
Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown - how Japan's future depends on its understanding of the 2011 triple disaster
2012
An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
2009
