Jake Adelstein is the only Western journalist who has ever worked as a police reporter in Japan. He reported for many years for the leading Japanese newspaper about the dark side of Japan, where extortion, murder, human trafficking, and corruption are as common as ramen noodles and sake. However, when he aimed to land his biggest scoop, he suddenly found himself face-to-face with Japan's most notorious Yakuza boss. With death threats looming over him and his family, he gave up... temporarily. Then he struck back. In "Tokyo Vice," Jake Adelstein recounts how an inexperienced young reporter—whose Wing Chun fight with an older colleague was not his only rookie mistake—transformed into a daring investigative journalist for whom the Yakuza placed a bounty. With his vivid, emotional stories from the world of the modern Yakuza, of which even Japanese people know little, "Tokyo Vice" is a captivating and informative book from the first to the last line, offering a unique, insightful firsthand account of the darker aspects of Japanese culture.