more about book, Tokyo Vice (author interview)

Recently the investigative TV show at www.cbs.com called "60 minutes" broadcast a feature story with author Jake Adelstein about his memoir. This many not be suitable reading for most young people, but it surely is one part of one's cultural education to become "an educated speaker of Japanese" for older students and for teachers as well.
 
Today he spoke on the radio show from Philadelphia WHYY, Fresh Air:

An American In Japan, Investigating The 'Tokyo Vice'

Working for Japan's Yomiuri Shinbun newspaper, reporter Jake Adelstein uncovered a world unknown to many of the Japanese public, let alone to foreigners: the world of organized crime. He details its landscape — and the dangers of covering it — in a new memoir.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120237244