“Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation in Japan. The New Victims: Japanese Teenagers”

子ども性被害防止で相談ＨＰ Note: I’ve been working with the Polaris Project Japan, a non-profit organization that combats human trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and children, since 2005 and recently agreed to be their temporary public relations director.  In the last year, a lot of the calls coming to Polaris Project Japan were concerning Japanese teenage women who appeared to have been forced into the sex industry–not... Read More

Suicides Using Toxic Fumes Soar in Japan

In the first chapters of Hanayagi Genshu’s book Nigetara Akan!, she outlines the problem of suicide in Japan shockingly clearly — one person every fifteen minutes dies by their own hand in Japan. This article? Just more proof of the problem. From the New York Time Website By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS October 31, 2008 TOKYO (AP) — More than 870 people have killed themselves in Japan by inhaling toxic fumes from household chemicals this... Read More

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.   Read More  Read More

Salaryman in Japan

By Jake Adelstein You wouldn’t expect The Japan Travel Bureau to put out the finest sociological treatise about the pathology and isolation of modern life in Japan, but here it is. It’s a hilarious and disturbingly accurate read about the daily life of Japan’s favorite workhorse — the company man. Read More  Read More

Tokyo Vice Featured on Australian ABC Radio International’s “The Media Report”

Jake Adelstein was featured on The Media Report on June 5, 2008. The audio download and transcript are available from abc.net.au Read More  Read More