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Jake Adelstein (born March 28, 1969) is an American journalist, crime writer and blogger who has spent most of his career in Japan. ==Career== Adelstein grew up in Missouri and moved to Japan at age 19 to study Japanese literature at Sophia University.〔Hessler, Peter. "All Due Respect" (Profile ), ''The New Yorker'', January 9, 2012.〕 In 1993 Adelstein became the first non-Japanese staff writer at the ''Yomiuri Shinbun'' newspaper, where he worked for 12 years.〔Mark Willacy, ("Exposing Japan's Insidious Underbelly" ), ABC News, October 20, 2009; accessed November 20, 2010.〕 After leaving the ''Yomiuri'', Adelstein published an exposé of how an alleged crime boss, Tadamasa Goto, made a deal with the FBI to gain entry to the United States for a liver transplant at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). In 2009, Adelstein published a memoir about his career as a reporter in Japan, ''Tokyo Vice'', in which he accused Goto of threatening to kill him over the story. According to Adelstein, the yakuza told him: "Erase the story or be erased."〔Jake Adelstein, ("This Mob Is Big in Japan" ), ''The Washington Post'', May 11, 2008, Accessed November 20, 2010〕 Adelstein was subsequently a reporter for a US State Department investigation into human trafficking in Japan, and now writes for the ''Daily Beast'', ''Vice News'', ''The Japan Times'' and other publications. He is a board member and advisor to the Lighthouse: Center for Human Trafficking Victims (Former Polaris Project Japan). On April 19, 2011, Adelstein filed a lawsuit against National Geographic Television, which had hired him to help make a documentary about the yakuza, citing ethical problems with their behavior in Japan.〔Superior Court of the District of Columbia. (http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/05/06/Yakuza.pdf), April 19, 2011.〕 Adelstein withdrew the lawsuit a month later, after reaching a settlement.〔Superior Court of the District of Columbia. (http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/05/06/Notice%20of%20Dismissal%20with%20Prejudice.pdf), May 4, 2011.〕 Adelstein's memoir ''Tokyo Vice'' will be made into a film, with Daniel Radcliffe to portray the journalist. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jake Adelstein」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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