“Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan (Hardcover)” Jake Adelstein
I just finished this book last night, can you tell?
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I have a guarantee from someone up high in the Yamaguchi-gumi that they won’t touch my family. Their word is pretty solid. It’s a gentleman’s agreement that they’ll only kill me, which makes me feel better.
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Jake Adelstein talks about a Japanese crime lord who flipped other members of the Yakuza to get a liver transplant in the U.S.
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This lack of cooperation was partly responsible for an astonishing deal made with the yakuza, and for the story that changed my life. On May 18, 2001, the FBI arranged for Tadamasa Goto — a notorious Japanese gang boss, the one that some federal agents call the “John Gotti of Japan” — to be flown to the United States for a liver transplant.
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since each lens, film, and flash produces a different look, it can get overwhelming. You know, like, what does the Jimmy lens look like if you use Pistil film and the Dreampop flash?
6 lenses + 7 flash options + 8 films = 336 different combinations. YIKES!
So we took 336 photos with every possible combination of the Hipstamatic arsenal. (Because we love you.) And we’ve even broken it down into an easy guide to tell you which combos go together.