Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan (Pantheon Books)

The only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the
insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club will read and discuss his unique, firsthand,
revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up.

Jake Adelstein was a reporter for the Yomiuri Shinbun,
Japan’s largest newspaper, from 1993 to 2005. From 2006 to 2007 he was
the chief investigator for a U.S. State Department-sponsored study of
human trafficking in Japan. Considered one of the foremost experts on
organized crime in Japan, he works as a writer and consultant in Japan
and the United States. He is also the public relations director for the
Washington, D.C.-based Polaris Project Japan, which combats human
trafficking and the exploitation of women and children in the sex trade.