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 👇
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October 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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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)
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(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)
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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...
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October 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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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
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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
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A look book at #TokyoVice, #TheLastYakuza, #TokyoNoir
Thanks to Team House for having me on! Next time, I'll get a better internet connection
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Inside the Yakuza | Jake Adelstein
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October 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Jake Adelstein (@tokyovice) on Threads
I made a comment that it’s clear that Donald Trump is under the influence of Putin and Threads immediately removed it.
Well 🚨 Mark Cuckerberg has apparently not only bent the knee, he’s on his knees ...
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October 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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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!!!
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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!!!
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October 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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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
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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
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But you must tell them the truth.
There are exceptions.
#TokyoNoir #TokyoVice
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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.
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October 3, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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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
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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
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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.
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September 30, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Smorgasbord Posts from Your Archives 2025 - My Pick of two of your posts from last six months of 2024 - #Life #Celebrities #TokyoVice - That Cinderella Moment by Laura Lyndhurst smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/s...
Smorgasbord Posts from Your Archives 2025 – My Pick of two of your posts from last six months of 2024 – #Life #Celebrities #TokyoVice – That Cinderella Moment by Laura Lyndhurst
This series is now over for this season… another one early next year. This is the second post from the archives of Laura Lyndhurst…and Laura shares some moments of ‘rubbing should…
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September 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Smorgasbord Posts from Your Archives 2025 – My Pick of two of your posts from last six months of 2024 – #Life #Celebrities #TokyoVice – That Cinderella Moment by Laura Lyndhurst
This series is now over for this season… another one early next year. This is the second post from the archives of Laura Lyndhurst…and Laura shares some moments of ‘rubbing should…
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Smorgasbord Posts from Your Archives 2025 – My Pick of two of your posts from last six months of 2024 – #Life #Celebrities #TokyoVice – That Cinderella Moment by Laura Lyndhurst
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This series is now over for this season… another one early next year. This is the second post from the archives of Laura Lyndhurst…and Laura shares some moments of ‘rubbing should…
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Jake Adelstein (@tokyovice) on Threads
Mike Johnson is a religious zealot who lies as easily as he breathes
Johnson thinks lying is less sin, more strategy. In his Christian nationalist lens, “truth” isn’t facts—it’s God’s plan. If the Con...
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September 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Jake Adelstein (@tokyovice) on Threads
Mike Johnson is a religious zealot who lies as easily as he breathes
Johnson thinks lying is less sin, more strategy. In his Christian nationalist lens, “truth” isn’t facts—it’s God’s plan. If the Con...
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September 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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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
#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
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Tokyo Vice edit (The Weeknd - After Hours)
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August 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Watching #TokyoVice and the Tifa archetype has entered the chat !
August 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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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...)
(And her table manners are every bad. She is being mocked and doesn't realize it...)
August 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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#TokyoVice reminds me that I do find some contemporary things smexy
a man in a suit is standing next to a silver car
Alt: a man in a suit is standing next to a silver car sato
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