Jake Adelstein

Jake Adelstein has been an investigative journalist in Japan since 1993 and writing for The Daily Beast since 2011. 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 co-hosted and co-wrote the award-winning podcast about missing people in Japan, The Evaporated: Gone With The Gods. He is the author of Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan (Vintage) which is a series on (HBO) Max and also The Last Yakuza: Life and Death In The Japanese Underworld (2023).

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HUNTED

Subway Creep’s Desperate Plea to Cops Set Off Vigilante Saga

Three men have been nabbed for running an alleged extortion ring in Japan. Their targets? Suspected “upskirt photographers.”

Jake Adelstein

A photo illustration featuring Joji Obara and Lucie Blackman and detectives investigating

DISOBEYING ORDERS

Renegade Cops Bend the Rules to Catch Twisted Killer

The homicide department was getting nowhere on the disappearance of Lucie Blackman until a rebel squad went off-script and uncovered a vital clue.

Jake Adelstein

‘HUGE SHAME’

How an Exposé on a Prolific Pop Pedophile Was Covered Up

The founding father of J-pop molested young talents for years. When the BBC revealed his crimes in an explosive documentary, Japan’s mainstream media didn’t want to know.

Jake Adelstein