Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan is a 2009 memoir by Jake Adelstein of his years living in Tokyo as the first non-Japanese reporter working for one of Japan's largest newspapers, the Yomiuri Shimbun. It was published by Random House and Pantheon Books. Max adapted the memoir into a 2022 television series. An investigation by The Hollywood Reporter questioned whether certain events in the book happened as stated.
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Tokyo Vice was adapted into a 2022 television series.
Tokyo Vice2022 · television series · dir. Anthony Mandler · IMDb ↗IMDb8.1A first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption. Based on Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction book of the same name.
