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Jake Adelstein
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Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
— published 2009 — 13 editions |
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Reconstructing 3/11: Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown - how Japan's future depends on its understanding of the 2011 triple disaster
by Jake Adelstein (Goodreads Author), Michael Cucek, Kiyoshi Kurokawa — published 2012 |
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Wereld vd Misdaad: Tokio
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2:46: Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake
by William Gibson, Yoko Ono, Barry Eisler (Goodreads Author) — published 2011 — 5 editions |
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This is one of the most haunting stories I have read for a while. The ethical and moral dilemma leaves you thinking for days afterwards. As with all of his books, Ishiguro creates exquisitive images that curl around your senses and envelop you.
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| One of the saddest books I've ever read and impossible to forget. It really is a book about human trafficking in many ways and deeply disturbing. It's fiction that has so much truth in it that it's overpowering. I almost wish I hadn't read it. | |
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“Sometimes in the mountains the animals make paths by using the same route again and again. If you don't know what you're doing, you might think it's a path made by humans--it looks that way. If you follow that path, the path of beasts, you won't get anywhere at all. People lost in the wilderness, they follow these paths and only get more and more lost. Sometimes they lose their way and they die. It's not a path for humans, it's a dangerous diversion. Are you sure that's the road you want to take? It won't get you where you want to go.”
― Jake Adelstein
― Jake Adelstein
“You develop a kind of admiration for criminal genius and ruthless efficiency, and you forget that the criminal empire is built on human pain and suffering.”
― Jake Adelstein, Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
― Jake Adelstein, Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
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Jitsuroku- true accounts of the Yakuza and others
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This group is for people who love reading about the criminal and delinquent undercurrent in Japanese society. (Non fiction and memoirs)
















































