Megaspectacle and Celebrity Transgression in Japan

The Sakai Noriko Media Scandal

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ID20086076
AuthorsIgor Prusa (0000-0001-7827-5029, corresponding author)
Year2012
Pages56-71
Publication date2012-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueIdols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9781137283788_3
OpenAlexW2501941396
ISBN9781137283788
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited13

Immediately after Takas ̄o Yūuichi was arrested in central Tokyo in August 2009 for possession of illegal stimulants, his wife, the popular Japanese actress and former idol Sakai Noriko, suddenly disappeared from the city.1 Media speculation ran rampant. An arrest warrant was issued for Sakai, based on a minute quantity of drugs found in her apartment. Six days after her disappearance, in the middle of unprecedented media frenzy, Sakai returned to Tokyo, surrendered to police and admitted to the charges against her. Following the police search and arrest that made the front page of all the national dailies, Sakai's management company, Sun Music, publicly condemned her actions, suspended sales of all products related to her, and eventually cancelled her contract (she simultaneously lost all commercial contracts). After spending a few weeks in a detention center, Sakai was indicted and released on bail.KeywordsPress ConferenceArrest WarrantDetention CenterExpectancy ViolationCommercial ContractThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves

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