Tokyo Vice: Yakuza, murder and crime reporting in Japan | Tokyo
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The Japan we know from films and TV is one of tradition, high technology and pop culture. But as with every nation, something more sinister lies beneath the bright lights of Sony and Nintendo. Jake Adelstein, author of Tokyo Vice, a memoir of his time as an investigative crime reporter in Tokyo, is the only American reporter to be admitted to the Tokyo Metropolitan Press Club and writes of a country that where organised Yakuza crime gangs are rampant. But is this the real Japan? With an expert panel including Jake Adelstein, Peter Hill author of The Japanese Mafia: Yakuza, Law, and the State and Satoshi Hashimoto, bureau chief & European editor Asahi Shimbun (Japanese daily newspaper) we'll investigate the problem of organised crime in Japan and cast a light on the media's reporting of it. Chaired by William Horsley, BBC Tokyo correspondent from 1983-1990.
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Great conference! Thanks for putting it online! :D
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Incredible book. Got it a week ago and nearly finished now. Fantastic read, especially for would-be journalists like myself.
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This is great a gaijin inside the system
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I DON'T KNOW MUCH BUT, IF ANYONE FUCKS WITH THE YAKUZA, HE/SHE CAN KISS THEIR ASS GOODBYE.
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these ppl talk to much
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one thing is for certain, the Yakuza make the Maffia and the Columbia Kartel look like boy scouts,
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I knew that Japan has a much higher crime and murder rate than they said otherwise. Imagine if a large portion of those 'missing persons' and suicides were actually murders. Japan's murder rate might not seem so low after all.
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wonder if the Japanese journalist is in trouble lol. he asked the camera to be turned off at 29:00 and they just kept filming.
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Wow, this was pretty eye opening. I've been reading up on the Yakuza and the like but never had a picture as clear as this about how they are and how reporting on them is.
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I have the book and never read it. Maybe I should. Great talk at the Frontline Club, as usual.