At the risk of sounding like a troll myself, Jake Adelstein is notorious for injecting weird sentiments like this into his stories, or playing up the more sordi

At the risk of sounding like a troll myself, Jake Adelstein is notorious for injecting weird sentiments like this into his stories, or playing up the more sordid aspects of incidents in order to get pageviews. His shtick is "Here's something that will blow your mind and destroy all your misconceptions about Japan!," and then proceeds to write about a crime (murder, cybercrime, prostitution, organized crime, whatever) that is commonplace everywhere in the world. This would normally be okay, if he was a blogger or opinion writer, but Adelstein portrays himself as an independent journalist.