Lovesick Japan: Stories of Intimacy From Courts to Keitai (Cell Phone) Novels May 5, 2009

From the hottest cell phone novels to complex legal opinions to international sex surveys, stories of widespread dissatisfaction with romance and intimacy in contemporary Japan abound. Dana Goodyear, poet, journalist and the author of the New Yorker article 'I Heart Novels,' and Mark West, Nippon Life Professor of Japanese Law at the University of Michigan, discuss their latest research into this "crisis of intimacy."