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The sequel to bestseller Tokyo Vice, now a major HBO drama, with a second season coming in 2024. It¿s been a while since Jake Adelstein was the only gaijin crime reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun. The global economy is in shambles, Jake is off the police beat but still chain-smoking clove cigarettes, and Tadamasa Goto, the most powerful boss in the Japanese organised-crime world, has been banished from the yakuza, giving Adelstein one less enem...

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The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it's never been told before.

Jake Adelstein ist der einzige westliche Journalist, der jemals als Polizeireporter in Japan arbeiten durfte. Er berichtete viele Jahre für die führende japanische Zeitung über die dunkle Seite Japans, wo Erpressung, Mord, Menschenhandel und Korruption ebenso häufig vorkommen wie Ramen-Nudeln und Sake. Doch als er seinen letzten Knüller landen wollte, stand er Japans berüchtigtstem Yakuza-Boss plötzlich persönlich gegenüber. Da ihm und seiner ...

Sacred, ferocious, and businesslike, Adelstein describes the Japanese mafia like nobody else.' Roberto Saviano, on Tokyo ViceWhen acclaimed journalist Jake Adelstein hires a former Yakuza boss, known as the 'Tsunami', to be his driver and bodyguard, he soon finds himself swept into the violent heart of Tokyo's organised crime syndicates.From gambling rackets and ritualised killings, to the forbidden pleasures of 'soapland', Adelstein's unlikel...

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‘Sacred, ferocious, and businesslike, Adelstein describes the Japanese mafia like nobody else.’ Roberto Saviano, on Tokyo Vice When acclaimed journalist Jake Adelstein hires a former Yakuza boss, known as the ‘Tsunami’, to be his driver and bodyguard, he soon finds himself swept into the violent heart of Tokyo’s organised crime syndicates. From gambling rackets and ritualised killings, to the forbidden pleasures of ‘soapland’, Adelstein’s unli...

A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist. Jake Adelstein is the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, where for twelve years he covered the dark side of Japan: extortion, murder, human trafficking, fiscal corruption, and of course, the yakuza. But when his final scoop exposed a scandal that reverberated a...

From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique and revelatory look at the seedier side of Japanese culture from the underbelly up. Equal parts cultural expose, true crime and hard-boiled noir.