‘This is an excellent piece of work that combines fascinating ethnographic and historical data in a well-rounded and well thought out theoretical perspective.’
Roger Goodman, University of Oxford
‘This is an astonishing book… the author succeeds in explicating the social functioning of scandals as highly mediatized rituals that tend to preserve the status quo.’
Koichi Nakano, Sophia University Tokyo
‘Scandal in Japan provides an insightful critique of the Japanese media’s complicity in the ritualized performance of scandals.'
Jason G. Karlin, The University of Tokyo
