Jake Adelstein is an investigative journalist and the author of several books about Japanese organized crime including Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan, which is currently being adaptation into a TV series by HBO Max.

His latest book, The Last Yakuza: Life and Death in the Japanese Underworld, is out now. He is a board member for Lighthouse: Center for Human Trafficking Victims and hosts the podcast The Evaporated, about the countless people who vanish in Japan every year.
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