Secrets, sex, and spectacle: the rules of scandal in Japan and the United States
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Main Author: West, Mark D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2006
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Players -- Privacy and honor -- Groups -- Individuals -- Sex -- Apology
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 404 pages)
ISBN:0226894118
9780226894119

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