By Dave Lee BBC World Service
American journalist Jake Adelstein Jake Adelstein's work took him inside Tokyo's seedy - and dangerous - sex industry
"Erase the story… or we'll erase you. And maybe your family. But we'll do them first so you learn your lesson before you die."
It was the warning that ended it all.
Twelve years of reporting on the terrifying world of the yakuza - the Japanese mafia - and Jake Adelstein's luck had finally run out.
He had been working on a story which involved one of Japan's most feared and violent mobsters, and as he sat before a softly spoken enforcer from the notorious Goto-gumi gang, he decided no story was worth his family.
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