#262 - Inside Japan's DEADLIEST Criminal Enterprise | HBO's Jake Adelstein

Julian Dorey Podcast

Julian Dorey

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4.6 • 649 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2024

⏱️ 156 minutes

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SPONSOR - ACORNS: https://www.acorns.com/julian (***TIMESTAMPS in description below) ~ Jake Adelstein is an American journalist, crime writer, and blogger who has spent most of his career in Japan. He is the author of “Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan,” which inspired the 2022 Max original streaming television series Tokyo Vice, starring Ansel Elgort as Adelstein. PATREON https://www.patreon.com/JulianDorey FOLLOW JULIAN DOREY INSTAGRAM (Podcast): https://www.instagram.com/juliandoreypodcast/ INSTAGRAM (Personal): https://www.instagram.com/julianddorey/ X: https://twitter.com/julianddorey GUEST LINKS BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/Tokyo-Noir-Out-Japans-Underworld/dp/1957363916 LISTEN to Julian Dorey Podcast Spotify ▶ https://open.spotify.com/show/5skaSpDzq94Kh16so3c0uz Apple ▶ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trendifier-with-julian-dorey/id1531416289 JULIAN YT CHANNELS - SUBSCRIBE to Julian Dorey Clips YT: https://www.youtube.com/@juliandoreyclips - SUBSCRIBE to Julian Dorey Daily YT: https://www.youtube.com/@JulianDoreyDaily - SUBSCRIBE to Best of JDP: https://www.youtube.com/@bestofJDP ****TIMESTAMPS**** 0:00 - Living in Japan, Shinzo Abe Assassination, Yakuza Boss Mob hit on Nurse 8:14 - Jake’s Obsession w/ Japanese Culture, Moving into Zen Buddhist Temple 18:05 - Japan Assimilation, Jake gets first gig in Japan 23:53 - Who are the Yakuza, Japan’s Class System 31:20 - 1992 Anti-Organized Crime Laws, Yakuza Commits Face Cutting-Crime 36:41 - Japanese Extreme Legal System, Jake Dating Mistress of Yakuza Boss 44:39 - Japanese Cop Helps, #1 Rule for Japanese Yakuza for Journalists, Jake attacked by Yakuza 50:19 - Turning Down his Last Yakuza Boss 54:06 - Corruption Scandal of Yakuza, Pr*stitution Laws, Tr*fficking Protection 59:22 - Police Officer Downloading Corn, Sotry of police protection ending 1:12:55 - Jake gets Police Protection, Bad Liver due to Tattoos, FBI Massive Failure 1:18:38 - Yakuza Boss Scared Japanese Citizens, Jake Finding FBI Angle 1:21:46 - The Story Nobody Will Print, Getting Kicked out of Yakuza 1:27:22 - 2 Faction Split of a Yakuza Gang Story, Yakuza Boss Gives Death Threat to Jake 1:34:11 - Major Leaders Targeting Jake (Death Threats), Getting Photo of Major Boss (Hiding Out) 1:42:26 - Japanese Customs, HT in Japan, Bush Administration Issues 1:52:15 - HT Gang Stopped & Laws Strengthened 1:56:12 - Leaving State Department, Yakuza Infiltrating Massive Companies, Fukushima Nuclear Disaster 2:02:12 - Jake Doing Favor for Yakuza Member Story, Getting Info from Yakuza 2:10:22 - HBO Series on Yakuza Series & Working w/ J.T. Rodgers, Tokyo Vice 2:18:00 - Hollywood Changes to Series, Bizarre Gun Rules of Japan, Jake’s Books and Stories 2:25:45 - Fukushima Disaster still Happening, Demographic Birthrate disaster in Japan 2:33:31 - The Fall of the Yakuza CREDITS: - Host & Producer: Julian Dorey - Producer & Editor: Alessi Allaman - https://www.instagram.com/allaman.docyou/ Julian Dorey Podcast Episode 262 - Jake Adelstein Music by Artlist.io Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jake, you're the first person on this podcast coming from Japan.
0:14.6	It is a pleasure to be here.
0:16.4	It's great to have you, man.
0:17.6	It is a long way from Tokyo to Holoken.
0:22.7	What are you doing in town?
0:25.2	So I've written three books, Tokyo Vice, the Last Jakusa.
0:29.5	Tokyo Vice is the one that made me paid off my kids' college because I got turned into a TV series.
0:35.9	The Last Jakusa and the sort of Tokyo Vice
0:40.4	Trilogy finale, Tokyo Noir, which just came out on October 1st. So I'm doing a sort of mini book tour,
0:46.5	which is rare to do these days. I've got a gig at the Japan Society tomorrow night when we're
0:51.7	going to do a lecture and a talk about the changing of organized
0:56.6	crime in Japan over the last 20 years. So that should be fun.
0:59.9	The Japan Society? The Japan Society is like a bunch of people who are really into Japanese
1:05.0	culture and customs and kind of otaku, you know the people who are into the karate
1:12.4	and uh you know shogun and all that stuff there's all kinds of people who have interest
1:17.2	in japan um as your japan guy i'm kind of limited in my my area of expertise is basically
1:26.1	organized crime the fun basically organized crime.
1:28.0	The fun stuff.
1:29.0	Organized crime, esoteric Buddhism, and, you know, and is there anything else?
1:36.1	Oh, Japanese politics, which is pretty boring for most people.
1:38.5	Japanese politics got pretty interesting after Abe took one to the head.
1:41.9	You know what?
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