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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Miyazawa's entire life? Ouch.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=amnornes@umich.edu href="mailto:amnornes@umich.edu">Mark Nornes</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=kineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
href="mailto:kineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu">kineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, January 07, 2004 8:52
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Geinokai Scandals</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Recently I posted a little tidbit from Mark West, our law
scholar here. He is, as a matter of fact, working on a little project about
scandals in the geinokai (and swears he's got a scholarly angle on this
stuff). Here is his preliminary list of the top scandals of the last two
decades (and I added a couple). <BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial>Matsuda
Seiko stealing Matchy, leading to Nakamori Akina's suicide attempt, and then
the subsequent divorce to marry that Jeff guy<?/fontfamily><?bigger><BR><?/bigger><?fontfamily><?param Arial>Amuro Namie
dekichatta kekkon to nyoronyoro Sam<?/fontfamily><?bigger><BR><?/bigger><?fontfamily><?param Arial>Tashiro
Masashi arrested for peeping tom stuff and then again for drugs<?/fontfamily><?bigger><BR><?/bigger><?fontfamily><?param Arial>Goro
Inagaki arrested for running over police woman<?/fontfamily><?bigger><BR><?/bigger><?fontfamily><?param Arial>Katsu
Shintaro arrested for drugs<?/fontfamily><?bigger><BR><?/bigger><?fontfamily><?param Arial>Itami
Juzo suicide (?)<BR><?smaller><BR><?/smaller>I don't know much about this kind
of thing, but added:<BR><BR>Tora Tora Tora & Kurosawa nervous breakdown,
then suicide attempt (although this is a little earlier)<BR>Kadokawa Haruki's
cocaine arrest<BR>Miyazawa Rie's Life<BR><?/fontfamily><BR>Can anyone add any
juicy ones to his list? He would be eternally grateful.
<BR><BR>Markus<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>