David E. Kaplan is an investigative reporter

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 and director of the Center for Public Integrity

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's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Prior, he was with the American newsweekly U.S. News & World Report

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Works

David E. Kaplan commonly writes about terrorism

Terrorism

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, organized crime

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, and intelligence

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. He is co-author of the award-winning book Yakuza (University of California

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 Press, 2003), widely considered the definitive

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 work on Japanese organized crime.

Kaplan is also co-author of The Cult at the End of the World, on the Aum

Aum Shinrikyo

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 doomsday

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 sect behind the 1995 nerve gassing of Tokyo's subway

Rapid transit

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 (Crown, 1996); and author

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 of Fires of the Dragon, on the life and murder

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 of Taiwanese-American journalist

Journalist

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 Henry Liu.

Books

• Alec Dubro,Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld, Expanded Edition, University of California Press, January 1, 2003, ISBN 0-520-21562-1
• Cult at the End of the World: The Terrifying Story of the Aum Doomsday Cult, from the Subways of Tokyo to the Nuclear Arsenals of Russia, Crown Publishers, 1996, ISBN 0-517-70543-5

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