Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan

by Jake Adelstein

“It’s not how much you do that counts, it’s what you get done.”

“To not know and to ask a question is a moment of embarrassment; to not know and not ask is a lifetime of shame.”

Roppongi, “do you know the saying ‘ja no michi wa hebi’?” “Yes. I think in English that would be translated as ‘the snake knows the way of the serpent.’”