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.
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SEP 10, 2010 • Podcast
"Tokyo Vice" and Japanese Morality: Devin Stewart Interviews Jake Adelstein
Three years in a Zen temple taught Jake Adelstein the core virtues of Japanese society, such as reciprocity, and the police beat at Tokyo newspaper "...