Anyone ever met Jake Adelstein or

[wangta]

whatever his name is?

I ask cause recently I read his fairly old by now supposed autobiography of his time spent in the J police and dealing w/Tokyo underworld members. It*s well written, well paced and seems just a ripping yarn without too much reality. My suspicions were roused early on when he related meeting the various J police who would be his mentors etc.

Adelstein notes at the beginning of the book that his Japanese was just passable and had a lot of gaps in it. Yet he`s able to relate the zoku go and humour and cynical observations of Jp police and other people he meets from the get go. If he couldn`t understand a lot of usual, spoken Japanese at that stage, how the hell was he able to follow all those conversations and events and narrate them in this book?

I also wonder if the Aussie prossie supposedly murdered by a yakuza gumi in their Ebisu office really existed or if she`s a semi fictional composite of a few gaijin women with stereotypes of the female gaijin who pretends she is an Engrish teacher but actually works the bars and makes her money as a call girl.Immi started to get more interested in what gaijin are actually doing and who their employer actually is at least around the turn of the 21st century.

Adelstein says he was sent a photo of this gaijin callgirl amateur detective who was helping him uncover human trafficking rings. She was dead, had been murdered, and looked horrible, he said he could barely identify her but a mole looked familiar. Why on earth didn`t he send the photo to his police contacts?

If I got a photo of somebody I knew or thought it was them and it was sent anonymously and they were dead, I wouldn`t waste time. I would forward it to the police even if I had no proof the yaks did it. Etc. So is Jake Adelstein actually a big fat nothing burger when it comes to real live stories?