ISBN:
9780226894089
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (416 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle : The Rules of Scandal in Japan and the United States
DDC:
302.2/4
Keywords:
Japan ; Social life and customs
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Law ; Japan
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Law ; United States
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Scandals ; Japan
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Scandals ; United States
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United States ; Social life and customs
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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 explore well-ingrained similarit
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Author's Note; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. PLAYERS; 3. PRIVACY AND HONOR; 4. GROUPS; 5. INDIVIDUALS; 6. SEX; 7. APOLOGY; 8. AFTERWORD;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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