TOKYO OFTEN SURPRISES travellers with its kind soul, spiffy bullet trains, eclectic street fashion, never-ending nightlife, and gastronomic offerings. And if the sensory load is too much, you can just as easily walk into the Ninomaru Garden, stroll in a Buddhist shrine, or hop on a train—within an hour, you could even be forest bathing.
I am in Tokyo with novelist Jake Adelstein, who after 12 years as a crime reporter with the largest in-circulation Japanese newspaper in Japan, quit his job and published a true-crime memoir of his time on the police beat. The novel exposes the world of organised crime in Japan through the lens of a crime reporter. A world where mayhem, macabre, that was released this April.
