Hard Lessons Learned From Tough People: Jake Adelstein at TEDxKyoto 2012
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- Investigative Journalist and author Jake Adelstein shares his eye-opening and often eyebrow-raising insights as he leads us through his experiences with both the Yakuza and the police while reporting on crime in Japan for the last nineteen years.
Jake Adelstein
Investigative journalist
How often do we really think about the darker facets of our society? Most of us read a newspaper article now and then, or perhaps watch a documentary online or on television. Whether we actively avoid thinking about the very real hidden dangers around us, or are simply too busy to take the time, we must be thankful that there are people like Jake Adelstein in the world. Jake is an investigative journalist who has worked from 1993 to 2005 for the Yomiuri Shimbun as a crime reporter. He is also the author of Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter On The Police Beat in Japan, and anticipates his next book The Last Yakuza: A Life In the Japanese Underworld to be published in 2014. Considered to be the foremost Western expert on Japanese organized crime, Jake actively shares his expertise and findings as a contributing writer to The Atlantic Wire, as the manager of the website japansubculture.com and as a pro-bono board member for the Polaris Project Japan, which combats human trafficking and the exploitation of women and children. Jake and his colleagues do much more than simply report the dangers around us. They bring the actions of Japan's subculture into the light and into our awareness, a powerful step towards building a safer society for all of us.
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ジェイク アデルスタイン
調査ジャーナリスト
いわゆる「社会の闇」というものについて、わたしたちはどれだけ真剣に考えているでしょうか。普段、新聞やテレビ、インターネットなどでこまめに情報収集をしている人も、いざ自分の身の周りに潜む危険となると見て見ぬふりをしがち。さらには、忙しくてニュースさえもチェックする余裕がないという人も少なくないでしょう。そんな時代だからこそ、ジェイク・アデルスタインさんのような、調査報道を専門とするジャーナリストが世界中で活躍していることが重要なのです。アデルスタインさんは、1993年から2005年まで事件記者として読売新聞に勤務。現在は、アメリカのオンライン紙「アトランティック・ワイヤー」に執筆したり、日本の闇社会の実態を暴く「japansubculture.com 」を運営。さらに人身売買や、性的搾取、子供に対する労働力搾取の撲滅を目指すボランティア組織「ポラリスプロジェクト・ジャパン」の役員としても活躍しています。身の周りの危険を報道するだけでなく、日本の闇社会に光を当て警鐘を鳴らすことで、安全な社会を目指し力強く歩んでいるのです。著書に、日本の警察事情や裏社会について書いた「Tokyo Vice」、2014年には 「The Last Yakuza: A Life In the Japanese Underworld」を出版予定。
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I just binged the whole Tokyo Vice episodes and it’s very worth it.
I never binged on any show before ..but I did bing Tokyo Vice ...its NOT Amazing or Brilliant ..but it does hook u in ... one or 2 of the actors r so good ..u really feel as though they r that person ...The guy that plays Sato stood out for me ....he was perfect for that role ...n the guy that plays Jake is good ...I remember him from Baby Driver and this role is 1 MILLION times different to that ...but he pulls it off
Yes Sato actor was amazing and was intrigued by him. Great show and now im reading the book...@techlife9853
not possible because its still ongoing...
I’m in the process!
The seven things worth sharing from the yakuza
1. Know the difference between hearing and listening.
2. Honor your debts and have a code of honor.
3. There are no small promises, as a man's word is his worth.
4. Betray others and you betray yourself.
5. A man with no enemies is worthless, don't be afraid to be on unfriendly terms with people.
6. In life we only encounter, the injustices we were meant to correct.
7. If you want to live well, die once, in order to live to the fullest.
and who determined all of these points are worth sharing ? you ?
@@homebrandrules ..do you mean the key points taken from this very lecture, simplified to an easily digested format for others to voluntary take?
@@ChrisAliaga Focus on my also using the word you used "Worth" then you might understand my attempted point. if it still goes over your head then ask me a focused/relevant question.
Someone determines things, regardless of how worthy you find them. Who decided if he's worthy? You? @@homebrandrules
@@homebrandrules pretentious
a man worth is his word,if he cant keep his word he is worthless
we need to treasure that
I watched Tokyo Vice and Im fascinated by this incrediblely passionate Journalist!! Cant wait to pick up the book
Great talk! I've read Tokyo Vice (terrific book!) and since then I've been following Adelstein's work - investigative journalism at its very best! Thank you, Mr.Adelstein!
I hope Jake Adelstein will write another book. Tokyo Vice is one of my favorites to date. It was so insightful and a lot deeper than I had thought it would be when I had picked it up.
He is writing another book it comes out next year and it’ll be called Tokyo Private Eye. I’m reading Tokyo Vice now because I love the hbo max tv series.
Would be cool if there was a show
Jake, I listened to your audio book and it was an audio "page turner". It was an excellent listen! Thank you! Gael Guerard
HBO is making a new series about this man in Tokyo with the Yakuza!
The actors voice is very similar to the real life version. Impressive
Jake the fake
@@sukotto1001 Are you Eminem?
phóng uế
I deeply felt you had more to say than what you had talked. i respect how you challenging the powerful society in a culture you were not born in. Great speech.
I can't imagine having a positive outlook life after having to be around a criminal organization for so long. I admire your ability to learn from them, and not be indoctrinated by them. I have been around some seedy types in my past, and the lifestyle of a criminal can seem fanciful. Death is such a permanent thing, and they dance with it almost daily. Its unnerving how glorified that lifestyle can be in the media, sometimes. Keep fighting the good fight, sir.
I was listening to the audio of this while working on another website and my goodness, I thought it was Ansel Elgort. So this is to say, Ansel really took on your full character. I am looking forward to seeing your story on HBO Max! Thank you for your advice. Journalists are great at saying so much in a very short space of time. "Just the facts mam."
To do no harm is the ideal. I wish it were that simple. What do we do when we know someone is going to harm many people--how do we stop that? Do we let it happen? Do we stand by and do nothing? What means are acceptable for preventing harm to others? I think doing little harm is a good general rule. For me, the lessons I've learned help me know how to live a better life. It may not work for everyone.
I've only been living in Japan for a little over two years now and I have always been fascinated by the Yakuza. But I do agree that the Yakuza of today are nothing like the original group(s). It's just interesting that society still has a tolerance towards them even though they've become a problem in my opinion.
"A penny saved is a penny earned. . ."
The Yakuza
I've always found the idea of death comforting.
The thought that my life could end at any moment frees me to fully appreciate the beauty, art, and horror of everything this world has to offer. Everybody dies sooner or later. Don't worry about your death. Worry about your life.
Take charge of your life, for as long as it lasts.
An assessment of this man from one of the top yakuza experts in Japan.
"Not only do they misrepresent the yakuza, they make themselves into the heroes of crime novels and start telling the world that they are yakuza experts. It is tedious, time-consuming, and frequently causes trouble. I have learned the hard way that my name and work are often used to enhance the credibility of this work."
Can you give a source of this quote by any chance?
@@A.re_you The source of the English version is "Martina Baradel discusses the unique world of the yakuza, Japan's organised crime syndicates | Department of Sociology | University of Oxford"
The original Japanese text describes this guy as a fraud.
@@AA-ok5jz thank you very much! I will look it up 💪
1:15 Tokyo Advice
Loved it. Wish it was longer.
Will wait for Tokyo vice s2
Loved his book!!!
Excellent talk; inspiring - I am surprised it doesn't have more viewers
Is the character Sato based on a real person or just someone they added in to the show?
About the "A man with no enemies is worthless", in the show *** LIGHT SPOILERS *** isn't it actually Tozawa who says it, and Katagiri who goes like "WTF does that mean"??
Yeah, I noticed that too. I guess they changed it to have a "deep" interaction between Tozawa and Adelstein, but I would have preferred it if they had kept it with Katagiri, seems like it perfectly fits his character.
I just watched watched Tokyo Vice, which was really good. When I looked it up, I saw that it was based on a real guy. The first interview I saw of him, it was so obvious the guy was full of it. When I saw that he gave the name of his “mentor” in this Ted Talk, I thought for sure the guy must be dead. I looked up his name and sure enough, he died two years before the book was published.
While he’s an obvious liar, at least he fabricates entertaining lies. Even though he is full of it, he does have a genuinely entertaining and cool backstory being that he was the first American reporter at a major newspaper. Having tried learning Japanese and knowing how difficult of a language it is to learn, it really is impressive.
Well say brother
Tokyo Vice
he is the original jake
Great x!
Yakuza been around since the 17th century.
I wish go to Japan 🇯🇵 for my own creative game system.
Will work on subtitling and translating it into Japanese.
If you did that, that would be awesome. Please write me and I'll help.
A little too general for me. The assumption being a quote from a Yakuza boss or cop is imbud with wisdom. Totally skirts around the issue that gangsters hurt people. As for turning up 25 minutes late and being judged untrustworth, I couldn't help feeling, Chill, dude... get a life... way too humourless.
The OG weeb
Says what's ur problem to a Yakuza boss, the balls on this guy. Interesting how a man's word is how a woman measures him too
Part 1
Arguing for the sake of arguing
Jake is a liar and steals stories to embellish his own.
it's been 20 years since i was in japan, probably one of my favourite places, if only it weren't so claustrophobic. my now ex-wife is japanese so i've been a couple of times, first to meet my in laws, who made me feel more at home than when i'm at home, and then to take their grandson. one of the by products of organised crime is that petty crime is a lot rarer than in the west. one of society's big problems is balance, and like all other countries japan hasn't found a balance between being honest people and being neurotic people - to steal is about as low as you can sink, hence the low crime rates, but it gets taken to the other extreme where the only way to make amends for your misdemeanor is to top yourself.
what i have heard about the police is that if you get arrested for anything, anything at all, they expect you to confess, guilty or not, and they make life very uncomfortable until you do. the upside being if you do confess you pay a reasonable fine or spend a few days in jail (depending on the crime), but to try to get anything to court takes an age, you don't get bail and you'll have a hard time seeing counsel, all adding to japans amazing prosecution rates.
having said that it's probably he safest and most honest place you could hope to visit, you can leave valuables for long periods and expect them to still be where you left them, people are helpful to the point of it being embarrassing, and although scams do abound for tourists, for the most part you'll have a positive experience, personally i love the place and the people. and the trains average delay tie is 12 seconds - yes seconds.
tojyo vice is a great series, it has a few niggles, very few inaccuracies about japan, but always absorbing, highly recommend. and if you get the chance to go to japan, go, even if you don't spek a word of the language i'd be surprised if you didn't have a great time.
what you heard about the japanese police is innacurate.
Your last assertion is a naturalistic fallacy and does not deserve to be addressed.
Go troll someone who deserves to be trolled, not someone like Adelstein who has made huge contributions to society for the last two decades.
One thing. I understood by he doesnt have humour or doesnt know how to "portrait" as someone not like Will
"yakuza are a sort of pestilence on japanese society" perfect description.
Japanese peeps always on time.
Part 2
Use sarcasm to emphasize arrogance and further incite argument for the sake of arguing.
ofc it's a TEDx where you pay to speak.
However Jake-san, I have died many times. I am stronger every time I come back.
This guy cant get a point across.. One minute he sounds like he hates the yakuza the next he sounds like he admires them.
Amrxazn 37 The Yakuza is an extremely complex organisation, so he has a complex stance on them.
Its like the Godfather. People hate mafia and thugs but we know we all secretly admire the Godfather.
It’s a bit of both
🤪 he took the meat and left the bones. It’s called intelligence. The unnuanced people of the world miss mountains of information because they balk at the source.
You are a prisoner of your own preconceptions.
He’s telling you what he’s learned.
Or as Charles Manson once said ‘prison is a frame of thought, we each our own wardens and we do our own time.”
You’re allowed to learn from someone even if you have opposing views and morals.
RESPECT
Nice nose
This is what American Shinobi look like.
why does he speak mostly English when this is talk is in Japan...i doubt majority of audience can understand him