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Mediaite editor Aidan McLaughlin speaks with Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who covered crime in Tokyo for more than a decade. His book "Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan" inspired the hit HBO show starring Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe. McLaughing and Adelstein discuss the life of a reporter in Tokyo, covering the yakuza, and how the HBO show came together.
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Mediaite editor Aidan McLaughlin speaks with Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who covered crime in Tokyo for more than a decade. His book "Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan" inspired the hit HBO show starring Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe. McLaughing and Adelstein discuss the life of a reporter in Tokyo, covering the yakuza, and how the HBO show came together.

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