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Secrets, sex, and spectacle : the rules of scandal in Japan and the United States / Mark D. West.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- West, Mark D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scandals--Japan.
- Scandals.
- Law--Japan.
- Law.
- Scandals--United States.
- Law--United States.
- Japan--Social life and customs.
- Japan.
- United States--Social life and customs.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (416 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A leader of a global superpower is betrayed by his mistress, who makes public the sordid details of their secret affair. His wife stands by as he denies the charges. Debates over definitions of moral leadership ensue. Sound familiar? If you guessed Clinton and Lewinsky, try again. This incident involved former Japanese prime minister Sosuke Uno and a geisha. In Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle, Mark D. West organizes the seemingly random worlds of Japanese and American scandal-from corporate fraud to baseball cheaters, political corruption to celebrity sexcapades-to
- Contents:
- Players
- Privacy and honor
- Groups
- Individuals
- Sex
- Apology.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611966775
- 9781281966773
- 1281966770
- 9780226894119
- 0226894118
- OCLC:
- 476229097
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