TOKYO DETECTIVES SUIT SERIES
Here’s how the HBO Max series compares to the book. In the 1990s, however, the syndicate was an omnipresent force across Tokyo. Their membership ranks have shrunk from about 80,000 a decade ago to about 10,000 today. But their ability to be a powerful force and their willingness to use violence has drastically diminished. “Sure, the yakuza still exists and maintains powerful connections.
In a recent interview with The New York Times, Adelstein, now 53, explained how the yakuza has changed since his time as a crime reporter. HBO Max’s recent adaptation of that story, also titled Tokyo Vice, casts Ansel Elgort as Adelstein, who is one of the series’ producers.Īdelstein worked for The Yomiuri Shimbun from 1993 to 2005, and the HBO series chronicles at least several years of this tenure, when Adelstein was reporting on the yakuza. The yakuza’s words, as reported by Aldestein in his book: “Either erase the story, or we’ll erase you.” Just as the series depicts, Adelstein was threatened. The meeting between Adesltein and the yakuza took the form of a warning, with the yakuza attempting to squash the Goto story before it was published. The book exposed a yakuza family boss, Tadamasa Goto, as an FBI informant, who exchanged information about his gang in order to receive a liver transplant in the United States. His reporting on the yakuza, Japan’s organized crime network similar to groups like the Camorra and Sicilian mafia, resulted in a series of high-profile articles and later a book, Tokyo Vice. Adesltein was the paper’s first non-Japanese reporter. The story begins with a meeting, between journalist Jake Adelstein and a member of Japan’s most notorious crime syndicate, the yakuza.Īt the time, Adelstein was covering crime for Japan’s The Yomiuri Shimbun, the world’s largest paper.
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