Jake Adelstein

Tokyo

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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Articles

Memorial Day: For Those Who Were Murdered at The Harry S. Truman VA and the serial killer who got away

1 week ago | tokyopaladin.substack.com | Jake Adelstein

Every Memorial Day, Witnessed: Night Shift is the story we have to tell. We uncovered a chilling truth buried in a VA hospital: dozens of veterans dead, the same nurse always on duty. I returned to my hometown to investigate a suspected serial killer—and the cover-up that followed. With Shoko and Amy Plambeck, we reopened the case my father first exposed. Some heroes died in silence. We made this podcast to give them a voice.
Mark Karpelès really, really doesn't want your data. Here's a VPN to prove it.

1 week ago | tokyopaladin.substack.com | Jake Adelstein

I’ve been working on getting my book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin, out for the English-speaking audience. Until this year, it was only available in France – a country whose mother tongue I have absolutely no proficiency in but has welcomed me as a sort of literary home away from home regardless. Part of what has been making The Devil Takes Bitcoin take so long to get to the presses is the sheer number of updates that have been happening.
Japan Approves Law To Crack Down On Host Club Hustlers

2 weeks ago | tokyopaladin.substack.com | Jake Adelstein

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The Host Is Toast: Japan Approves Law To Crack Down On Host Club Hustlers

2 weeks ago | unseen-japan.com | Jake Adelstein

If you’ve ever wandered through Kabukicho at midnight—drawn in by the neon, the perfume, a craving for Nagoya style chicken wings, or the sheer gravitational pull of poor life choices—you’ve probably passed a host club or two. Or twelve. Some are legit. Many are not. And the government’s finally gotten around to noticing. This piece is a cross-post from Jake Adelstein’s new substack, Tokyo Paladin. You can check out his substack here.
The Host Is Toast: Japan Approves Law To Crack Down On Host Club Hustlers

2 weeks ago | tokyopaladin.substack.com | Jake Adelstein

If you’ve ever wandered through Kabukicho at midnight—drawn in by the neon, the perfume, a craving for Nagoya style chicken wings, or the sheer gravitational pull of poor life choices—you’ve probably passed a host club or two. Or twelve. Some are legit. Many are not. And the government’s finally gotten around to noticing. Tokyo Paladin with Jake Adelstein is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
The Host Is Toast: Japan Approves Law To Crack Down On Host Club Hustlers

2 weeks ago | tokyopaladin.substack.com | Jake Adelstein

If you’ve ever wandered through Kabukicho at midnight—drawn in by the neon, the perfume, a craving for Nagoya style chicken wings, or the sheer gravitational pull of poor life choices—you’ve probably passed a host club or two. Or twelve. Some are legit. Many are not. And the government’s finally gotten around to noticing. Tokyo Paladin with Jake Adelstein is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
A TV Scandal Shows "Japan Inc." Is No Longer Okay With Sexual Misconducts

1 month ago | tokyopaladin.substack.com | Jake Adelstein

For decades, Japanese corporate culture has had a paradoxical relationship with celebrity misconduct—particularly when it comes to sexual assault. It has ignored it, dismissed it, and in some cases, quietly enabled it. But the scandal currently engulfing Fuji Television suggests something remarkable: Japan has changed. The facts of the case are not in dispute.
Flashback: Human Trafficking In Japan (2004)

1 month 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.
BREAKING NEWS: The Great Yakuza War (Yamaguchi-gumi vs Kobe-Yamaguchi-gumi) is Over! Maybe.

1 month 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.
Japan's Shinzo Abe Quits in Bid to 'Escape' Potential Prosecution (The Daily Beast Aug 28, 2020)

2 months 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.