Jake Adelstein (@tokyovice) We’ve spent a year exploring crime, karma, and truth in Japan’s underworld and beyond. Celebrate the lunar new year with us by becoming a founding member. There are 8 slots left. Founding members get ...

Greetings from #Japan
According to the traditional lunar calendar this is actually the first day of 2026❣️

If you liked #TokyoVice — the TV series or the book — or #TheLastYakuza, #TokyoNoir, #TheDevilTakesBitcoin and the rest of my writing, come find me on Substack 🥷

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interesting book #TokyoNoir,

Tokyo Noir: In and Out of Japan's Underworld Tokyo Noir: In and Out of Japan's Underworld

There may be a world in which #TokyoNoir, the sequel to #TokyoVice becomes a movie and ends up showing on #NoirAlley but gotta wait and see.

It's got classic noir elements. Gangsters (yakuza), gumshoes, reporters, murders and
a nuclear meltdown
Modern noir.
www.amazon.com/Tokyo-Noir-O...

Tokyo, 2025

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Tokyo, 2025

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Tokyo, 2025

#tokyo #japan #xpro3 #streetphotography #streetphotographers
#tokyostreets #tokyostreetphoto #tokyostreetshots
#tokyometro #backstreettokyo
#tokyonights #neonnoir #tokyonoir #urbanmoodtokyo
#filmlook #grainyphoto #grittystreet #cinematicstreet
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Tokyo, 2025

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#tokyostreets #tokyostreetphoto #tokyostreetshots
#izakayastreet #alleyvibes
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#filmlook #grainyphoto #grittystreet #cinematicstreet
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Tokyo, 2025

#tokyo #japan #fuji #xpro3 #streetphotography #streetphotographers
#tokyostreets #tokyostreetphoto #tokyostreetshots
#izakayastreet #alleyvibes #backstreettokyo
#tokyonights #neonnoir #tokyonoir
#filmlook #grainyphoto #grittystreet #cinematicstreet
#streetmood #rawstreets #humansoftokyo

Tokyo, 2025

#tokyo #japan #fuji #xpro3 #streetphotography #streetphotographers
#tokyostreets #tokyostreetphoto #tokyostreetshots
#izakayastreet #alleyvibes
#tokyonights #neonnoir #tokyonoir #urbanmoodtokyo
#filmlook #grainyphoto #grittystreet #cinematicstreet
#streetmood #rawstreets #humansoftokyo

Tokyo 2025

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#tokyostreets #tokyostreetphoto #tokyostreetshots
#tokyonights #tokyonoir #neonnoir #cyberpunkstreet
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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

@theteamhouse.bsky.social

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.

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...

Thank you to everyone who’s taken the time to leave a glowing review for the Tokyo Noir audiobook on Apple Books—I really appreciate it.

If anyone in the UK has had trouble downloading it, please let me know so I can make sure the issue gets sorted.
#TokyoVice #TokyoNoir

Hey Jake! Can you tell us a little more about that bookstore, Books and Drugs? And #TokyoNoir is a great read! 🔥

Every book here is great—like #TokyoNoir
So addictive you can’t put it down. 😏📚🙋🏻‍♂️✍️
🕵️🕵🏻‍♀️

Any negotiations happening for #TokyoNoir ?

Finally get the chance to look through some of my presents. Three of my Christmas books. Ian Nathan’s Tarantino is wonderfully produced. Al Pacino’s Sonny Boy and my friend Jake Adelstein’s #TokyoNoir the follow up to
Tokyo Vice.

Here’s to hibernation and reading on those cold, dark nights.

Tori Tale's review of Tokyo Noir 5/5: In Tokyo Noir, there are bad guys, journalists asking important questions, and innocent people caught in a path of injustice leading to faith-shaking tragedy. Tokyo Noir mirrors a raw, vulnerable...

New review of #TokyoNoir (the sequel to #TokyoVice)

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Blue Eye Samurai was ground -breaking anime and was delighted to hear the backstory from Tarik Heitmann who worked behind the scenes on the show. We met over Indian food 🥘
Also was amused that he was already listening to the audiobook version of #TokyoNoir.

It’s the last day of #Noirvember.
Celebrate it with a whisky 🥃
a cigarette
a surly yakuza
an old flame
some jazz
and a few regrets.
Goes well with a copy of #TokyoNoir

@unseenjapan.com
@scribepub.bsky.social

In the attention economy, every author benefits from having a good publicist.
Elizabeth aka @elizabeth-grace.bsky.social is the best!
She handled the release of our podcast #NightShift in September and the release of the #TokyoVice sequel #TokyoNoir in October
Working with good friends is the best

The sequel to my first book #TokyoVice
-- #TokyoNoir was released on October 1st.
It's a farewell to the yakuza and the past
The audiobook did so well that I got a bonus.
Narrating it was like self-induced PTSD but worth it--cathartic.
Thanks to everyone who read the book
and listened to it.

Some #Noirvember reading:
"When his liver was about to fail him, Goto sold out all his fellow yakuza and jumped ahead of hundreds of Americans on the transplant list at UCLA
Law-abiding, hardworking people died waiting for a liver, but the crime boss lived
If you opposed him, you died"
#TokyoNoir

"As a yakuza violence is our business but involves complex calculations. Maybe they want someone’s arm chopped off. They will pay me a certain amount of money for that. Then, if I get caught, which is likely to happen, what crime would I be charged with? How many years will I be in jail?"
#TokyoNoir

"Violence is what we sell, it is what we offer; no violence, you just have a bunch of misfits who can’t do anything
We're selling assault and other brutal services, but we also have to consider the costs of providing those services
You may do the crime, but is it worth the time?"
#yakuza
#TokyoNoir

A guy who read #TokyoNoir wrote to offer condolences
I appreciate it.
But I don’t feel sorrow anymore
Because I realized to love and be loved in return, even briefly, is a rare gift—maybe once in a lifetime, twice if fortune smiles
I just feel gratitude for the time we had; a state of grace
#BFF

Celebrate Japan’s Culture Day with a deep dive into Japanese subculture! Start with Tokyo Vice, get into The Last Yakuza, and wrap up with the thrilling conclusion, Tokyo Noir. Perfect picks for a day of immersive reading! #CultureDay #TokyoNoir #Japan

#TokyoVice
#TokyoNoir

Greetings! Taking a social media vacation for a week to work on a new book, celebrate my best friend’s wedding, and chillax. Thanks to everyone reading #TokyoNoir and listening to #NightShift.
See you next Thursday! If I don’t answer messages, quickly please 🙏 forgive me ❤️🫶

This is the Tokyo Vice trilogy. There is one person to connect all three books. That is my best friend Michiel Brandt, who is on the cover of #TokyoVice on the far left. We didn’t know she had leukemia when the photo was taken.
#TokyoNoir