#TokyoVice
Found the Chiharakai flag from #TokyoVice and the prop yakuza magazines we made to make the world feel real. The twist: the “fake” mags contain some of the best background reporting we did. I’ll translate & post the articles for posterity. Here’s one 👇

tokyopaladin.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
October 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM Everybody can reply
3 reposts 17 likes
Un pacato commento di Jake Adelstein
(autore di Tokyo Vice, giornalista di politica giapponese)
sull'elezione di Sanae Takaichi
(non è che siccome è la prima donna a raggiungere quella posizione
si passa sopra al fatto che sostanzialmente sia peggio di chiunque)
substack.com/@tokyovice/n...
Jake Adelstein (@tokyovice)
Everyone says this is a step forward for Japan to soon have a female Prime Minister but it’s a giant step backwards. Sanae Takaichi endorsed “Hitler’s Election Strategy” in the ‘90s, threatened TV net...
substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM Everybody can reply
4 reposts 27 likes
Careful, we did that with #TokyoVice only to find there should have been a second series which we cannot find.
October 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM Everybody can reply
1 likes
Inside the Yakuza --30 years of covering the mafia. youtu.be/9GRvCsAgPXs?...
A look book at #TokyoVice, #TheLastYakuza, #TokyoNoir
Thanks to Team House for having me on! Next time, I'll get a better internet connection

@theteamhouse.bsky.social
Inside the Yakuza | Jake Adelstein
YouTube video by The Team House
youtu.be
October 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM Everybody can reply
9 reposts 33 likes 5 saves
Em tempo 😄

Terminei de maratonar Tokyo Vice. Queria andar no carro vermelho do Kataguiri, para mim o carro é um personagem de peso tb! Watanabe e Kasamatsu perfeitos! Os melhores da série. Queria mais cenas deles juntos!!!

#tokyovice
October 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM Everybody can reply
On a lighter note, it was nice to run into @solivagant.bsky.social who is visiting Tokyo. He still had a copy of #TokyoVice from over a decade ago.
October 4, 2025 at 9:21 PM Everybody can reply
1 reposts 9 likes
When you’re a private investigator, there’s one person you can be fairly sure that will lie to you: your client. 🕵🏻‍♀️
But you must tell them the truth.
There are exceptions.
#TokyoNoir #TokyoVice
open.substack.com/pub/tokyopal...
The Private Detective Blues
I started out as a newspaper investigative reporter in 1993 Japan, but by 2008, one thing led to another, and I found myself also working as a private eye.
open.substack.com
October 3, 2025 at 5:15 AM Everybody can reply
7 reposts 27 likes
See you, New York City — October 15 at the Japan Society!
From the author of Tokyo Vice comes The Devil Takes Bitcoin — the wild true story of cyber-era crime, cash, and one of history’s greatest heists.
Even in hell, Bitcoin talks. #TokyoVice #TheDevilTakesBitcoin

japansociety.org/events/autho...
Author Talk: Jake Adelstein and The Devil Takes Bitcoin
Meet Author Jake Adelstein, author of the internationally bestselling Tokyo Vice and Tokyo Noir, for a conversation on his newest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin.
japansociety.org
September 30, 2025 at 8:30 AM Everybody can reply
3 reposts 20 likes
I'm often pigeonholed as a writer on Japanese underworld and #yakuza, when my real area of expertise is databases
#TokyoVice was actually an ode to JIS X 0208

Finally in Australia my work has been fairly assessed by the AI at amazon.com.au
The new book: The Devil Takes Bitcoin is #4!

Thanks Jeff
September 4, 2025 at 12:25 PM Everybody can reply
7 likes
Watching #TokyoVice and the Tifa archetype has entered the chat !
August 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM Everybody can reply
5 likes
The annoying thing about this white girl in #TokyoVice is that she is a sex worker hostess but gets v upset if someone thinks she's a dif type of sex worker

(And her table manners are every bad. She is being mocked and doesn't realize it...)
August 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM Everybody can reply
2 likes
I'm losing my mind over the pokemon themes iykyk

#TokyoVice
August 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM Everybody can reply
2 likes