Less on livers, more on livelihoods

The Japan Times published in last Sunday's paper a mammoth of an interview with Jake by Mark Schreiber, stretching almost two entire pages across the Time Out section. While the news media is in no shortage of interviews with Mr. 'Viceman' Adelstein, this one is worth the read because, as Jake put it, "there's little or no mention of liver transplants or UCLA, for a change."

Author Joshua "Jake" Adelstein supposes that if he'd stayed home in rural Missouri and had never come to Japan, he'd...