Excellent journalistic insight into the darker side of Tokyo life. The author Jake Adelstein is a blunt, overworked, morally questionable American living in Japan that offers his personal trials and experiences from working as a journalist in Japan. Watching his work affect his personal life is a...
Back then I’d thought that that would be excellent; now I was in terrible need of a break and at the end of my rope. I mentioned to Sekiguchi that I was taking a week off. “It’s not going to happen,” he laughed. He was right; I was back within four days. A member of the Takada-gumi, a chinpira na...