Tokyo Vice

Jake Adelstein moved to Japan and, on a whim, decided to become a reporter, despite his lack of Japanese writing skills. He spent years on the beat, where he made friends with cops and other reporters as well as members of the yakuza, the Japanese form of the mafia. He ends up putting his own life as well as the lives of family and friends in danger when he exposes some of the worst human trafficking practices of the yakuza. For anyone interested in the cultural differences between America and Japan and how this affects journalism and crime, this is a definite must-read. It was very entertaining and heart breakingly disturbing.