Today’s guest is author and investigative journalist Jake Adelstein.  

Jake has spent most of his professional life in Japan as a reporter. He is considered one of the foremost experts on organized crime in the country. After graduating from Sophia University in Tokyo in 1993, he became the sole non-Japanese journalist at Japan’s largest newspaper.  Jake would go on to uncover major stories on the Yakuza, as detailed in his memoir Tokyo Vice which is now a series on HBO Max.   He is also the author of Pay the Devil in Bitcoin: The Creation of a Cryptocurrency and How Half a Billion Dollars of It Vanished from Japan and Operation Tropical Storm: How an FBI Jewish-Japanese Special Agent Snared a Yakuza Boss in Hawaii. Jake’s forthcoming podcast entitled Gone with the Gods explores Japan’s missing person phenomenon: More than 80,000 people are reported missing in the country every year. 

Jake’s sequel to Tokyo Vice, Tokyo Private Eye, is set to release in 2023.  You can follow Jake Adelstein on Twitter @jakeadelstein and on Instagram @tokyovice . 

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