Tag Archives: Jake Adelstein
“Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation in Japan. The New Victims: Japanese Teenagers”
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
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.
Jake Adelstein Featured on BBC World Service
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.
Economics 101: The Yakuza Barometer