How Dangerous are the Yakuza? Japan's Deadliest Criminals (w/ ‘Tokyo Vice’ Author Jake Adelstein)

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Jake Adelstein is an investigative journalist and the author of several books about Japanese organized crime including Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan, which is currently being adaptation into a TV series by HBO Max.
His latest book, The Last Yakuza: Life and Death in the Japanese Underworld, is out now. He is a board member for Lighthouse: Center for Human Trafficking Victims and hosts the podcast The Evaporated, about the countless people who vanish in Japan every year.
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@judyfield5230 2 күн бұрын

Loved the Tokyo vice show! Great listen!

@owenasmr.m2743 15 күн бұрын

Tokyo Vice is top tier

@thisisironclad 15 күн бұрын

Fax

@michael7v6 15 күн бұрын

Fantastic. Your overall content is among the best out there. Love the CH and the BRCC podcasts at well.

@ceehads 15 күн бұрын

Loved the series. Great interview Andy.

@thisisironclad 15 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@markymark6457 15 күн бұрын

Japan cracked down on Yakuza hard. They’re a shell of their former organizations.

@AKlover 15 күн бұрын

The government does NOT LIKE COMPETITION. Helps to remember things like prostitution are legal in Japan now, guess which entity gets A $$cut$$ of those proceeds instead of the Yakuza now.

@becraftcorey 15 күн бұрын

@AKlover prostitution is not legal in japan, they have basically a private room strip club where some sexual stuff probably takes place, it's not legal.

@AKlover 15 күн бұрын

@@becraftcorey "Legal Grey Area"???? I remember BPS doing A video showing where the brothels are and how Japanese prostitutes either are pressured to not or outright do not service foreigners, that is left to the "migrants". That is oddly specific to be untrue. Look up Black Pigeon Walking Tour or something to that effect.

@AKlover 15 күн бұрын

@@becraftcorey "Legal Grey Area"???? I remember BPS doing A video showing where the red light districts are and how Japanese pros either are pressured to not or outright do not service foreigners, that is left to the "migrants". That is oddly specific to be untrue. Look up Pigeon Walking Tour or something to that effect.

@themetaphysicalaxe5506 15 күн бұрын

@@becraftcoreylol riiiiiight

@user-pv6eg6xb7p 15 күн бұрын

Beyond amazing. GREAT interview Andy ~~~ and Thank YOU Jake A. for your insights

@JakeAdelsteinpaladin 15 күн бұрын

Thank you very much for listening. And thanks to Andy for an engaging interview

@thisisironclad 15 күн бұрын

Thanks for listening

@MsJodi188 8 күн бұрын

Awesome interview!

@rostamr4096 16 күн бұрын

This was fascinating

@thisisironclad 15 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching!!

@stephenloh817 9 күн бұрын

great interview, came here after watching Tokyo Vice

@Larryfromthe 15 күн бұрын

Very interesting nice episode! Not many people doing good info on Japanese organized crime.

@thisisironclad 15 күн бұрын

Thanks for the support Larry!!!

@Earthmuffin78 15 күн бұрын

Is this guy who they based Tokyo Vice on?!? The ice cream tipped me off. So cool!

@mattcole3067 13 күн бұрын

Great discussion

@alexpowell1990 15 күн бұрын

Love all of your content bud. Keep getting after it.

@thisisironclad 15 күн бұрын

Thanks, will do!

@sentfromdaniel 15 күн бұрын

Ads every 2 minutes. Awesome

@thisisironclad 15 күн бұрын

Thanks for sticking around despite the frequent ads!

@mr.morris2907 4 күн бұрын

Just like Costra Nostra, don't think gokudō is dead and gone. ...They didn't die off, they just adapted to the times.

@woodworkbycross 3 күн бұрын

I’m enjoying your show. Please keep up the good work. Hopefully they won’t all be IP interviews

@andredoumad 15 күн бұрын

Your ads are too loud and too frequent

@thisisironclad 15 күн бұрын

Thank you for the feedback

@simonbutler2966 7 күн бұрын

Agree

@Hahah878 6 күн бұрын

Agreed the person who is interviewed and yourself should be a bit louder and ads should be either at beginning after intro or closer to the end slap 3-4 for in a row or 2 in the begining 2 in middle and 2 at the end depending on the length of video

@ams914 11 күн бұрын

The HBO series is great, btw. A-tier TV

@peacesmakers 16 күн бұрын

They're (Yakuza) all over tokyo, roppongi district, and yokohama. Also, they've got a huge presence in downtown naha, and okinawa city, of Okinawa.

@malekkarim9276 7 күн бұрын

Dude i love tokyo vixe

@Jsrowson 15 күн бұрын

It’s basically like the mafia there’s a code

@11ccom1 13 күн бұрын

WOW. Heavy stuff.

@MindfulProgramming 8 күн бұрын

I love that he has a Tenga Cup on his shelf bro lmao

@jamesrebbechi5247 15 күн бұрын

Also, following the (anti-Yakuza) ordinances of 2011 which were politically driven by the Hatoyama government over his 2 year reign from 2009 many of the groups simply acquiesced under a mutually beneficial understanding and “corporatised” their commercial activities within legitimate longstanding ‘white collar’ firms in the manufacturing, law and financial realms. Effectively they just started wearing suits and going into the office - meaning much less need for large numbers of ground troops. The contemporary downside of all that shedding of grunts has been the subsequent and increasing rise in numbers of the Chinese Triads pushing in and taking over the older ‘traditional’ business activities forcing the Yakuza to agree on generally unfavourable split deals within their individual territories. The reality is home break ins and street crime is on the rise including sexual assault. That was never much of a problem with the Yukazu at full strength. Many within the police force and society at large lament the old days.

@rchi3906 Күн бұрын

Black Rain 1989 who didn’t want to be Sato

@solidzak3732 15 күн бұрын

They made a movie based on the serial killer he's referring to. It was called cold fish.

@grose93alexander67 14 күн бұрын

Felt like 10 ads

@mercilessforever 15 күн бұрын

Is this the real man the main character/reporter is based on in Tokyo vice on hbo max??

@enterthebruce91 Күн бұрын

Yeah, that's Jake Adelstein.

@barpillar11 11 күн бұрын

This content was relevant 20 years ago.

@ams914 11 күн бұрын

So learning about history isn’t your thing, I guess? Nothing before 20 years ago, I take it? LOL

@Leosfamilymatters 16 күн бұрын

Ive never seen no yakuza gang member anywere i live in Seattle WA.

@chico205 16 күн бұрын

THEY Lowkey u would not even tell if they yakuza

@WSW0424 16 күн бұрын

Then I guess that means they don’t exist 😂

@tonycarpaccio9550 16 күн бұрын

You have never seen no Yakuza? So you see them a lot in Seattle? lmfao.

@Jsrowson 16 күн бұрын

They don’t mess with Seattle, the Vietnamese own Seattle mostly

@deemushroomguy 15 күн бұрын

The Yakuza have too much class to be seen in Seattle. 😂

@king1203M Күн бұрын

I love the tv series and the book but after the new laws the yakuza are almost dead. Adelstein keeps them alive for his own business. What is his worth for a crime group that is now over 90% diminished. All his stories are before the new yakuza laws. Even though his book is a great read even though i dont believe all in this book.