David E. Kaplan (born 1955) is an investigative reporter and director of the Center for Public Integrity's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.[1] Prior, he was with the American newsweekly U.S. News & World Report.
Contents |
David E. Kaplan commonly writes about terrorism, organized crime, and intelligence. He is co-author of the award-winning book Yakuza (University of California Press, 2003), widely considered the definitive work on Japanese organized crime.
Kaplan is also co-author of The Cult at the End of the World, on the Aum doomsday sect behind the 1995 nerve gassing of Tokyo's subway (Crown, 1996); and author of Fires of the Dragon, on the life and murder of Taiwanese-American journalist Henry Liu.