Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle

Klappentext 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 world of scandal into a series of entertaining comparative examples from Japan and America to explore well-ingrained contrasts in law and society. In Japan and the United States, legal and organizational rules tell us what kind of behavior is considered scandalous and how that behavior is presented. When Japanese and American scandal stories differ, legal rules--rules that define what's public and what's private, rules that protect injuries to dignity and honor, and rules about sex, to name a few--often help explain the differences. In the cases of Clinton and Uno, those rules help explain why the media didn't cover Uno's affair, why Uno's wife apologized on her husband's behalf, and why Uno--and not Clinton--resigned. "Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle" offers a novel approach to viewing the phenomenon of scandals--one that will be applauded by legal scholars and anyone else who has obsessed over these public episodes.

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Mark D. West is the Nippon Life Professor of Law, director of the Center for Japanese Studies, and director of the Center for International and Comparative Law at the University of Michigan. He is the author of "Law in Everyday ""Japan"" Sex, Sumo, Suicide, and Statutes, " also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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