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Tokyo Massage Parlors: GAJIN JOURNALIST

American reporter covered cops and crime in Tokyo.

Published by Pantheon Books, “Tokyo Vice” is a dark-edged account of Japan’s culture and crime, as well as Adelstein’s professional and personal conduct covering it. Readers get tours of hostess bars, massage parlors, brothels and strip clubs. We learn of districts where all sex acts have a price, and there’s even a marketplace for young girls’ used underwear.

Now when Adelstein, a gaijin (foreigner), walks the streets of Tokyo, he is accompanied by a bodyguard.

Readers of “Tokyo Vice” will find that, on the one hand, there is a veneer of a respectable culture in Japan. Street crime is rare, and people are polite. There is a correct way of doing things: the proper way to exchange business cards, the right suit to wear to a job interview, the appropriate method of addressing superiors and colleagues, and a protocol for seeking out police sources at their home after hours.

See the full article from “Columbia Daily Tribune”

~ by massagegirl on November 1, 2009.

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