Jake Adelstein: Difference between revisions

In 1993, Adelstein became the first non-Japanese staff writer at the ''[[Yomiuri Shimbun]]'' newspaper, where he worked for 12 years.<ref name="ABC">Mark Willacy, [http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/20/2718773.htm "Exposing Japan's Insidious Underbelly"], [[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]], October 20, 2009; accessed November 20, 2010.</ref>

 

 

After leaving the ''Yomiuri'', Adelstein published an exposé of how an alleged crime boss, [[Tadamasa Goto]], made a deal with the FBI to gain entry to the [[United States]] for a liver transplant at the [[University of California Los Angeles]] (UCLA). In 2009, Adelstein published a memoir about his career as a reporter in Japan, ''[[Tokyo Vice]]'', in which he accused Goto of threatening to kill him over the story.<ref name="adelstein post">Jake Adelstein, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/09/AR2008050902544.html "This Mob Is Big in Japan"], ''[[The Washington Post]]'', May 11, 2008, Accessed November 20, 2010</ref> An April 2022 article by ''The Hollywood Reporter'' raised doubts about the veracity of the events described in the memoir.<ref name="The Hollywood Reporter">THR Magazine, [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/tokyo-vice-problematic-source-material-1235135828/ "Insiders Call B.S. on ‘Tokyo Vice’ Backstory"], [[The Hollywood Reporter]], April 29, 2022; accessed May 2, 2022.</ref> In November 2022, ''Esquire'' reported that Adelstein had released via twitter a folder of source materials which he claimed supported his versions of events.<ref name="Esquire">Esquire, [https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/a42051771/tokyo-vice-true-story/ "The Gripping True Story Behind ‘Tokyo Vice’ and Jake Adelstein's Tussles With the Yakuza"], [[Esquire (magazine)|''Esquire'']], November 24, 2022; accessed December 27, 2023.</ref>