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Sex and Power in Naked Japan
When screwing someone becomes screwing an entire system
The mask has fallen. The veneer has cracked.
The immaculate facade of the Japanese media empire crumbles before our eyes, and the spectacle is as fascinating as it is repugnant. A sex scandal involving one of Japan’s biggest television stars exposes far more than unwanted intimate encounters — it reveals a system rotten to its core.
Behind the polite bows and rehearsed smiles lies a power structure that has normalized abuse for decades. It’s a system so deeply rooted in Japanese corporate culture that even those who perpetuate it can no longer see its monstrosity.
Picture the panic in Fuji Television’s corridors when they realized they couldn’t sweep the dirt under the rug this time.
Seventy companies pulled their advertising.
Seventy. This isn’t a market correction — it’s a corporate mutiny.
The math is simple and devastating: when dozens of advertisers simultaneously withdraw their money, we’re not talking about an image crisis — we’re witnessing a corporate death sentence. It’s the kind of financial hemorrhage that no amount of bowing can stanch.
