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The Japanese Disease: Sex and Sleaze in Modern Japan

by Declan Hayes

A sensationalist portrait of social vice in modern Japan

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A sensationalist portrait of social vice in modern Japan

Declan Hayes presents an adult-oriented account of Japan centered on sexual exploitation, violent crime, corruption, and other forms of social transgression. The publisher’s description organizes its material as a tour through alleged cases and subcultures, ranging from prostitution and university assault to serial murder, online suicide pacts, organized crime, and sexualized consumer technology. Its framing is explicitly accusatory: Hayes casts these subjects as evidence of a wider moral crisis in modern Japan. With 644 pages, the book appears to pursue a broad, confrontational survey rather than a conventional travel guide. The supplied description makes sweeping claims but provides no sourcing or indication of how individual cases are documented.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Adults seeking a provocative, crime- and vice-focused book about modern Japan
  • Readers interested in sensational accounts of social issues and criminal cases
  • Travel readers wanting a nontraditional, highly critical view of Japan

Themes

Sexual exploitationCrime and violenceSocial corruptionOrganized crimeModern Japanese society

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Book overview

Why do Japanese mothers put their babies into coin lockers? And why is Japan the world's biggest brothel of teenybopper hookers. Read The Japanese Disease: Sex and Sleaze in Modern Japan to find out.

The Japanese Disease unlocks modern Japan's sleaziest secrets -- from Japan's gang rapists, child prostitutes and serial killers to the computer nerds, who meet online to commit collective suicide. Sex, sleaze, crime and corruption thread their way through every chapter of this path breaking book which details cannibalistic serial killers who have sex with the dead bodies of their victims, schoolboys who ritually dismember their victims, 80-year-old hit men, patriotic gangsters burying their victims alive and porno animals who fear the sexually transmitted diseases of their human co-stars.

Dr. Declan Hayes has looked into modern Japan's moral heart of darkness and he recounts what he sees. From the child sex hookers of Shibuya and Ikebukuro, to the gang rapists of Japan's top universities, from the killer cults to the classy women whose top of the range mobile phones double as sexual vibrators, this is a book on Japan like no other. If you buy only one book this year, this is the book to buy.

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