The media explosion over the ‘Kokubo scandal’ over the last week was one of the biggest feeding frenzies over nothing that I’ve seen in the Japanese media in a while – and they are very good at feeding frenzies over trivial things.
I first heard about Olympic snowboarder Kokubo Kazuhiro’s ‘fashion choices’ and ‘attitude’ from [...]
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