Jake Adelstein

Jake Adelstein
BornJoshua Lawrence Adelstein
(1969-03-28) March 28, 1969 (age 55)
Columbia, Missouri, U.S.
OccupationInvestigative journalist, writer, editor, blogger
GenreTrue crime, non-fiction, journalism
Notable worksTokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
The Last Yakuza: A Life in the Japanese Underworld
Children2
Website
www.japansubculture.com

Joshua Lawrence "Jake" Adelstein (born March 28, 1969) is an American[1] journalist, investigator, crime writer, consultant, and blogger who has spent most of his career in Japan. He is the author of Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan, which inspired the 2022 Max original streaming television series Tokyo Vice, starring Ansel Elgort as Adelstein. Considered one of the foremost experts on organized crime and social issues in Japan, Adelstein regularly appears as a commentator in the Japanese and international media.

  1. ^ Jake Adelstein, "Yakuza, strippers, drugs, an undercover Japanese-Jew FBI special agent? Pulp non-fiction.", Twitter, June 26, 2015. Archived March 5, 2016, at the Wayback Machine