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Tokyo Vice

An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
Mar 11, 2018StarGladiator rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Interesting book, and reasonably well written for a working reporter's POV. Several of the murders touched upon by the author in this book were the subjects of entire books later. Reading this reminded me of a discussion I had several years back with a Japanese grad student at U-Dub (University of Washington). She was expressing her opinion of the yakuza and its reach into the Japanese government and how it corrupted it, and suggesting that America appeared above such corruption. When she described the yakuza's methods, I explained that was exactly what private equity firms in America - - and elsewhere - - did [whether the largest ones like the Blackstone Group and Carlyle Group, or much smaller ones like Baird Private Equity]; all perfectly // legal \\ - - but thoroughly unethical, amoral and criminal! She was open-minded, so I may have altered her perceptions a bit?