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Description edit
From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up. At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Mrs. Sekiguchi: Add a description of this character.
- Yamamoto
- Gen Sekine
- Jake
- Endo
- Lucie
- Arai
- Viktor
- Takada
- Kaneko
- Kajiyama
- Goto
- Ohara
- Shima
- Adelstein
- Helena
- Shibata
- Kristin
- Inoue
- Kimura
- Beni
- Saito
- Yuji
- Tim
- Yoshihara
- Sunao
- Louise
- Hamaya
- Pablo
- Mindy
- Takagi
- Sugaya
- Obara
- Kimiko
- Slick
- Kabukicho
- Nakajima
- Shimizu
- Yokozawa
- Machida
- Melissa
- Saeki
- Veronika
- Maki
First Sentence edit
"Either erase the story, or we'll erase you."
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jake Adelstein (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Pantheon
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: October 13 2009
ISBN: 978-0307378798
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Pantheon
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: October 13 2009
ISBN: 978-0307378798
Page Count: 352
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 364.10952
Subjects edit
- Books › Travel › Asia › Japan › Tokyo
- Books › Reference › Writing › Journalism
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Professionals & Academics › Journalists
- Books › Nonfiction › True Accounts › Organized Crime
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