Jake Adelstein’s ‘Tokyo Vice’
- Jon Hurford
Tokyo Vice by Jake Adelstein
Scribe, 352pp, $AU35.00
Jake Adelstein’s Tokyo Vice documents his 12 years as police reporter for a major Japanese newspaper. A Jewish-American in his early-twenties, with limited written Japanese, his appointment to the Yomiuri Shimbun is something he (and many of the Japanese he meets along the way) can’t quite believe. But Adelstein finds ways of using this unlikeliness to his own advantage - sometimes he bumbles his way to a lead or a confidential remark, at other times he camouflages his prowess as a foreigner’s dumb luck. Read more
Monkland - Meanjin, Autumn 2010
Nick Terrell
Meanjin Quarterly - Autumn 2010 (vol. 69, no.1)
Melbourne University Press. $Au 24.99
Here come the spectres, here come the tempting voices. Is this the desert? Is this the devil, whispering in the wilderness? Read more