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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller notes
- Topic
- Media, Japanese Politics, Financial Scandal, Japanese Justice System
- Region
- Asia
- Country
- Japan
- Publisher
- Kodansha America, INC International Concepts
- Special Attributes
- 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, 1st English Edition, 1st printing
- ISBN
- 9784770031471
- EAN
- 9784770031471
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Where Is the Justice?: Media Attacks, Prosecutorial Abuse, and My 13 Years in Japanese Court
- Item Height
- 233 mm
- Subject
- History, Business
- Item Weight
- 671 g
- Item Width
- 160 mm
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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On June 19, 1988, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper broke the story- Recruit Co. Ltd, a media conglomerate founded by Hiromasa Ezoe, was alleged to have bribed the deputy Mayor of Kawasaki City. Thus began what became known as the Recruit Affair, a scandal that shook Japanese politics to the core, just at the height of the Bubble Economy and brought down the long-entrenched Liberal Democratic Party and the government of Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita. As the other mainstream newspapers also began reporting on seemingly-suspicious stock transfers by a Recruit subsidiary to bureaucrats and prominent politicians, an angry public turned on founder and President Ezoe., setting him up as the villain, although the transactions were, actually, legal. Soon, Ezoe was detained by the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office, and harshly interrogated. There was no concrete evidence against Ezoe, but the sensational reports in the newspapers, TV new programs, and weekly magazines fanned the public's fury and encouraged the prosecutors to pressure a confession out of him. Ultimately, many top LDP politicians were linked to the scandal, and the Takeshita cabinet quit en masse the following year. Mentally and physically exhausted, Ezoe signed the interrogation records. He was given a suspended sentence, and resigned from the business he had founded as a Tokyo University student. Where is the Justice? is Hiromasa Ezoe's detailed and candid look at the Recruit Affair and the part he played in it. More than that, however, it is a sharp indictment of what the Los Angeles Times called, the pervasive political dishonesty and rampant profiteering at the heart of the system... Many experts on contemporary Japanese politics say that, in retrospect, the Recruit Affair was a significant turning point in Post-War Japan, as the Bubble Economy became the Lost Decade. Ezoe offers a unique perspective on these events, from which we, today, can draw important lessons about ethics, accountability, transparency, and the often dangerously entwined roles of policy makers, policy enforcers - and those who report and manipulate public opinion.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Kodansha America, INC International Concepts
ISBN-13
9784770031471
eBay Product ID (ePID)
93343073
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Publication Name
Where Is the Justice?: Media Attacks, Prosecutorial Abuse, and My 13 Years in Japanese Court
Language
English
Subject
History, Business
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
233 mm
Item Weight
671 g
Item Width
160 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
Japan
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