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This is Fresh Air.

I'm Dave Davies.

The streaming service, Max, is currently showing season two of the series Tokyo Vice, the story of a young American who moves to

Japan and learns the language so well that he lands a job as a crime reporter

writing in Japanese for the country's largest daily newspaper.

He investigates the activities of the Yakuza, organized crime syndicates in the country, and

gets personally involved with many colorful figures, at times putting himself in danger.

Here's a scene from the first episode of season 2.

The reporter, Jake Adelstein, played by Ansel Elgort, is working on a big story involving a mobster and a high-ranking government

official.

He arrives at his newsroom where his editor, played by Rinko Kacuchi, explains that a critical piece

of evidence in the story, a videotape, has been

destroyed in a mysterious fire at the paper.

Jake. What the hell happened?

It's not a child. They think someone is the cigarette burning in an astray. It all went up in flames. But they made copies of the videotape, right?

They were all in that safe.

Everything inside melted from the heat.

We can still run the article, right? Without that tape, anything written about him is liable.

We would be sued and we would lose.

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