Jake Adelstein
Investigative Journalist at Freelance
Reporter and Special Correspondent at The Daily Beast
調査報道記者・Tokyo Vice (原作の著者) Investigative journalist, Zen Buddhist Priest, Paladin, Social Justice 🥷 Ninja, Author of #TokyoVice #TokyoNoir 禅僧 @thedailybeast
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1 week ago |
open.substack.com | Jake Adelstein
In 2004, The International Labor Organization (ILO) finished a report on the plight of foreigners victimized in the Japanese sex industry, entitled Human Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation in Japan.
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2 weeks ago |
tokyopaladin.substack.com | Jake Adelstein
It was the kind of peace declaration that doesn’t come with champagne or photo ops. Especially since the last monthly yakuza fan magazine closed in 2017 for good. On April 7, several men in dark suits, some with only nine fingers, walked into the Hyogo Prefectural Police Headquarters. They weren’t lawyers. They weren’t lobbyists. They were lieutenants of the Yamaguchi-gumi—the biggest, oldest, and most famously fractious of Japan’s crime syndicates—founded in 1915.
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3 weeks ago |
johnmenadue.com | Jake Adelstein
Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, decided to resign Friday ostensibly because of his health, but also because he fears the unpleasant and unhealthy conditions of aJapanese prison. At a press conference, he cited his painful stomach conditionulcerative colitisas the reason for stepping down, but he leaves at a time when his ratings are plummeting and he is under at least one criminal investigation, with the public clamoring for the reopening of other cases. Abe is not resigning; he is escaping.
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3 weeks ago |
unseen-japan.com | Jake Adelstein |Zen Buddhist priest |Yakuza Wonderland
This weekend, something unthinkable finally happened: Fuji Television—the once-untouchable giant of Japanese broadcasting—cut loose its longest-reigning shōgun, Hieda Hisashi. To the untrained eye, it looked like a retirement. A dignified sendoff. A “new chapter.”But to those who know the system, this wasn’t retirement. This was a ritual execution in a crumbling kingdom—an industry dinosaur finally thrown overboard as the network tried to keep from sinking under the weight of its own lies.
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3 weeks ago |
tokyopaladin.substack.com | Jake Adelstein
You know the one. The “ladyboy” monologue from The White Lotus—the TV series on HBO (MAX) . The one delivered with the shaky conviction of someone who just saw their entire sexual identity implode in a humid, overlit hotel room and is now narrating it like a TED Talk they didn’t prepare for. It is destined—destined, I say—to become the audition monologue for every drama student who thinks they’re edgy for knowing who JT Rogers is and can fake a mid-level breakdown in under 90 seconds.
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