Summary of Jake Adelstein's Tokyo Vice

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

#1 I had come with backup, a low-ranking cop formerly assigned to the Anti–Organized Crime Task Force in Saitama Prefecture. Chiaki Sekiguchi. He was a little taller than I, almost as dark, thickset with deep-set eyes and a 1950s Elvis haircut. He was mistaken for a yakuza a lot.

#2 I was ready to leave my job, but not like this. I had only enough information to have gotten me into this unpleasant face-off with Goto. I didn’t have all the facts yet, but I couldn’t let them know that.

#3 The enforcer tried to scare me into leaving the newspaper, but instead I decided to stay and find out what Goto was afraid of. I had to wait a year or two, but I was able to return to doing what I loved.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669386407

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Insights on Jake Adelstein's Tokyo Vice

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I had come with backup, a low-ranking cop formerly assigned to the Anti–Organized Crime Task Force in Saitama Prefecture. Chiaki Sekiguchi. He was a little taller than I, almost as dark, thickset with deep-set eyes and a 1950s Elvis haircut. He was mistaken for a yakuza a lot.

#2

I was ready to leave my job, but not like this. I had only enough information to have gotten me into this unpleasant face-off with Goto. I didn’t have all the facts yet, but I couldn’t let them know that.

#3

The enforcer tried to scare me into leaving the newspaper, but instead I decided to stay and find out what Goto was afraid of. I had to wait a year or two, but I was able to return to doing what I loved.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

In Japan, people don’t build a career at the major newspapers by working their way up through local, small-town newspapers. The papers hire the bulk of their reporters straight out of university, but first the cubs have to pass a standardized entrance exam.

#2

The Yomiuri Shinbun, the largest circulation newspaper in Japan, is conservative and heavy on kanji. The Asahi Shinbun used to be a close second, but it has fallen behind. The Sankei Shinbun is the voice of the extreme right.

#3

I had to pretend I had just returned from a funeral to get into the Yomiuri Shinbun’s journalism seminar. I bought a black suit, which I thought would help me get sympathy points. Instead, they called me an idiot.

#4

The Yomiuri newspaper had a seminar for potential employees, and I went to take the exam. The exam was divided into four parts: the Japanese language, foreign languages, a written essay, and your chance to sell yourself as a potential employee.

#5

I was taking the test when a Yomiuri man came up to me and asked why I was taking it. I told him that I thought it would help me get a job on the English-language Daily Yomiuri. He told me not to waste my time with the Daily Yomiuri, but to try for the real thing.

#6

I was called in for an interview, and after the first two, I heard nothing for weeks. I was nervous. I had begun the challenge as a joke, but now it was becoming a possibility.

#7

I visited a fortune-telling machine at the entrance of an arcade. I chose the category Jobs, my choice of fortune teller, Madame Tantra, and plugged in my personal information. The screen lit up and swirled around in a pink and green vortex.