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"Shinjuku police had arrested the owner of a club in Kabukicho known as The Mature Hot Wives Party Palace for managing prostitutes."
And that must have taken some real detective work...
— Aug 17, 2026 10:49AM
And that must have taken some real detective work...
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I like how everyone in the Japanese underworld seems to have a nickname. The Cat. The Cobra. I wish people called me The Cat.
— Aug 17, 2026 10:48AM
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Saitama. A place considered so uncool by urban Japanese that it had spawned its own adjective, dasai, meaning "not hip, boring, unfashionable."
In other words, I'd been assigned to the New Jersey of Japan.
— Aug 14, 2026 11:21AM
In other words, I'd been assigned to the New Jersey of Japan.
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Aug 16, 2026 08:45AM
What do you think so far, Mike? Ever since I've watched Tokyo Vice I want to read this.
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I'm really enjoying this. Lots of personality, lots of gallows humor, very immersive. I think you've got to be okay with the idea that Jake is kind of his own Marlowe in a quasi-Chandler novel he's writing himself, set in Tokyo. I find myself reading it like fiction. How was the show?
The show was great. I really liked it. I've read about the book is probably fake, but nevertheless I'll read it.
Yeah, I've heard there's some exaggeration. I'm reading it like it's a novel.