Jake Adelstein

Jake Adelstein is an investigative journalist working in Japan since 1993. He is the author of Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan and the forthcoming The Last Yakuza: A Life in the Japanese Underworld.
Articles by Jake Adelstein
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Japan’s Nuclear Fever

Argument
Douglas Birch, Jake Adelstein, R. Jeffrey Smith
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Unarmed Guards, Bogus Terror Drills, and 96 Tons of Plutonium

Investigation
Douglas Birch, Jake Adelstein, R. Jeffrey Smith
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The Yakuza Lobby

Dispatch
Jake Adelstein
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