Jake Adelstein Livres

" Vous supprimez cet article, ou c'est vous qu'on supprime". Derrière la fumée de sa cigarette, Jake n'est pas vraiment en position de négocier. Premier journaliste occidental à travailler pour le quotidien japonais Yomiuri Shinbun, il court après les bons sujets. Et là, il en tient un. Un sérieux, un fumeux, un dangereux : le yakusa le plus célèbre du Japon s'est fait opérer secrètement aux Etats-Unis. L'article vaut son pesant d'or. La mafia japonaise le sait. Et elle ne fera pas de cadeau à Jake.

Makoto Saigo est clair : si Jake Adelstein écrit sa biographie, il lui sauvera la vie. En mauvaise posture, le journaliste raconte l'ascension de ce délinquant juvénile devenu yakuza. Le destin de Saigo se confond alors avec celui du gouvernement de l'ombre, entre tatouages traditionnels et affaires réglées au sabre. Cynisme et argent triomphent, et c'est chacun pour sa peau. Le sens de l'honneur devrait-il se perdre en chemin ?

The sequel to bestseller Tokyo Vice, now a major HBO drama, with a second season coming in 2024.It’s been a while since Jake Adelstein was the only gaijin crime reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun. The global economy is in shambles, Jake is off the police beat but still chain-smoking clove cigarettes, and Tadamasa Goto, the most powerful boss in the Japanese organised-crime world, has been banished from the yakuza, giving Adelstein one less enemy to worry about — for the time being.Adelstein has a new gig these days: due-diligence work, or using his investigative skills to dig up information on entities whose bosses would prefer that some things stay hidden. Underneath layers of paperwork, corporations are thinly veiled fronts for the yakuza. Pachinko parlors are a hidden battleground between disenfranchised Japanese Koreans and North Korean extortion plots. TEPCO, the electric power corporation keeping the lights on for all of Tokyo, scrambles to hide its willful oversights that ultimately led to the 2011 Fukushima meltdown. And the Japanese government shows levels of corruption that make gangsters look like philanthropists.In this riveting memoir, Jake Adelstein once again reveals Japan’s dark underworld, as he battles to keep himself in the light.

The wild, true story of cyber-era commerce, crime, cold-hard cash, and one of the greatest heists in history. Even in hell, Bitcoin talks. This modern take on an old Japanese saying still holds true. The cryptocurrency was supposed to do for money what the Internet did for information, but it didn't work out that way. Its virtual existence unleashed real-world chaos -- especially in the homeland of its mysterious creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. Tokyo was the centre of the world's largest bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, until that company collapsed with nearly half a billion dollars' worth of bitcoin gone missing. It might be the greatest heist in history. If it was a heist. So what really happened? Here's the true story of the humble-to-hot commodity, from the former geek website that launched the boom to an inside world of absent-minded CEOs, hucksters, hackers, cybercrooks, drug dealers, corrupt federal agents, evangelical libertarians, and clueless techies. You'll discover Bitcoin's connection to the infamous Silk Road, learn why hell has nothing on Japan's criminal justice system, and get the lowdown on the high cost of betting with the Devil's dollars. All of this for less than the price of a single bitcoin.