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From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up. For twelve years of eighty-hour workweeks, he covered the seedy side of Japan--extortion, murder, human trafficking, and corruption. Here, he tells the riveting, often humorous tale of his journey from an inexperienced cub reporter to a daring investigative...

The day attorney Storm Kayama arrives in Kahului to help Lara set up her new dive shop, someone bombs a resaurant; and one of Lara's employees kills himself. Storm begins to ask questions.

Pursued by rival yakuza factions and linked to the mysterious and dangerous drug, "Wild Adapter," the distant Kubota and prickly Tokito have formed a relationship where they trust no one but each other. But just how did the strange bond between a young man who cares for nothing but himself and a stray with a monstrous right hand come to pass in the first place? Finally, the missing year between volumes 1 and 2 is revealed, and we learn just what happened...

"Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Paul BrinkleyRogers has lived an adventurous life all over the world. But there is one story he cannot forget: that of his haunting love affair with a mysterious older Japanese woman in 1959. Paul was a sailor aboard the USS ShangriLa that longago summer when he met Kaji Yukiko in the seaport of Yokosuka. A fierce intellectual, Yukiko shared her astonishing knowledge of literature, film, and poetry with Paul...