Tag Archives: Jake Adelstein

Economics 101: The Yakuza Barometer

By Sarah Noorbakhsh | Published: 7 October 2009
A look at why the yakuza hitting the books is a sure-fire sign that the economy is hitting rock bottom, by Bloomberg’s William Pesek, with added flavor from Jake Adelstein.(...)
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“Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation in Japan. The New Victims: Japanese Teenagers”

By Jake Adelstein | Published: 1 April 2009
Japanese female teenagers are being used to replace foreign women in the sex-trafficking industry, possibly as a result of crackdowns by the Japanese government against the exploitation of foreign women in the country.
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Tokyo Vice featured in South China Post Sunday Book Section

By admin | Published: 18 August 2008
The stories Jake Adelstein wrote as a crime reporter for a Japanese newspaper have earned him and his family a death threat from one of the country’s most notorious and influential yakuza. Writing a book about crime and criminal culture in Japan is likely to have further enraged the Tokyo uderworld. Adelstein never planned it this way.
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Jake Adelstein Featured on BBC World Service

By admin | Published: 19 July 2008
The BBC's International Radio Station did a story on Wednesday's program on Jake Adelstein becoming an "accidentally intrepid" crime reporter. The information on the July 16th Program can be found here.
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