I am spending my weekend

reading Mark D. West's Secrets, Sex and Spectacle: The Rules of Scandal in Japan and the United States. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2006.

damn interesting! and high-profile! (the nickname "Beat" Takeshi became a completely new meaning and I
really wonder how this is NOT connected to mob-ties - just saying...)

although I am slow since I'm not used to such an amount of law-related vocabulary, but I manage even without a dictionary (thanks to reading on japansubculture.com) and that makes me weirdly proud

I am now intersted in those:
Law in Everyday Japan: Sex, Sumo, Suicide, and Statutes. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2005.

and even more since it's newer:

Lovesick Japan: Sex, Marriage, Romance, Law. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 2011.

his online-bibliography notes some interestig articles as well:

Mark D. West Publications