Category Archives: On the Record

Less on livers, more on livelihoods

By Sarah Noorbakhsh | Published: 4 January 2010
The Japan Times published in last Sunday’s paper a mammoth of an interview with Jake by Mark Schreiber, stretching almost two entire pages across the Time Out section. While the news media is in no shortage of interviews with Mr. ‘Viceman’ Adelstein, this one is worth the read because, as Jake put it, “there’s little [...]
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NPR animates yakuza girlfriends, serial killers, and other exciting things

By Sarah Noorbakhsh | Published: 20 November 2009
After Jake’s interview on NPR earlier this month, Thomas Dreisbach and other interns put their skills to work in editing a segment about Jake’s time covering the case of Gen Sekine, animal breeder turned serial killer in Saitama. It’s a fun, quick-and-dirty summary of “The Saitama Dog Lover Serial Disappearances, Part 1 & 2″ (pages [...]
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Don’t miss the Daily Show!

By Sarah Noorbakhsh | Published: 15 November 2009
Be sure to watch The Daily Show on Monday, November 16 to catch Jake Adelstein in an interview with Jon Stewart talking about his book, Tokyo Vice, and all the nitty gritty of working the police beat in Tokyo.
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Welcome!

By Sarah Noorbakhsh | Published: 1 November 2009
Hello to all the viewers of 60 Minutes or the readers of the Washington Post who have stopped by after seeing the program and/or reading the article. We’d like to thank Lara Logan and the rest of the CBS News crew for visiting Tokyo, and hope everyone enjoyed the segment! Browse around the site to learn [...]
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Child pornography pulling profits?

By Sarah Noorbakhsh | Published: 20 October 2009
“How can you crack down on child pornography in this country when it is not a crime to be posses it?” “When you are looking at child pornography, you are not looking at something sexually titillating. You are looking at a crime scene. I mean it is crime scene. It is evidence that crime has been [...]
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