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Joshua Lawrence "Jake" Adelstein (born March 28, 1969) is an American [1] journalist, crime writer, 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.
The account covers Adelstein's career in Tokyo, starting in 1993 when he was hired as a rookie reporter for Yomiuri Shimbun. [3] As a cadet, [5] He describes how in Japan journalists are hired for newspapers straight after graduating from university and how he applied to the Yomiuri Shimbun on 12 July 1992 in his fourth year of university. [6]
Jake Adelstein (Rock Bridge High School) Ken Watanabe and Ansel Elgort in Max's "Tokyo Vice," based on Jake Adelstein's 2009 memoir. The longtime journalist, who began his career in Japan, turned ...
Goto was a major antagonist in reporter Jake Adelstein's 2009 memoir Tokyo Vice, which extensively details Goto's liver transplant and alleged criminal activity. In it, Adelstein claims that his police and yakuza contacts warned him that Goto intended to kill him for exposing his activities.
Ken Watanabe (Hiroto Katagiri) to Ansel Elgort (Jake Adelstein): Ansel is an exceptionally hard worker. On his days off, he’s made an effort to travel a lot throughout Japan to try and learn ...
Season 2 of Tokyo Vice wasted no time ramping up its stakes, and in myriad surprising ways. Episode 3 of the Max crime drama, which dropped last week, began to explore the complications and ...
Jake Adelstein's 2009 memoir Tokyo Vice is based on his time as the first American crime reporter at Yomiuri Shimbun, [37] and was also the basis for a series of the same name airing on HBO Max in 2022.
Adelstein is a Jewish surname meaning "precious stone". [1] [2] Notable people with the surname include: Abraham Manie Adelstein (1916–1992), South African medical statistician; Garrett Adelstein (born 1986), American professional poker player; Jake Adelstein, American journalist and writer; Jonathan Adelstein, American Federal Communications ...