By The Editors August 11, 2009 9:39 pm August 11, 2009 9:39 pm Yuli Weeks for The New York Times Serina Hoshino, 24, said that her job as a hostess was high-paying but included frequent and expensive trips to the hairdresser and too much drinking. Updated, Aug. 13, 1:25 p.m. | Jake Adelstein, author of “Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan,” joins us and comments on how the
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