Editing Sōsuke Uno (section)

==Geisha affair==
[[File:Sōsuke Uno Cabinet 19890603.jpg|thumb|Uno with the Ministers of Uno Government (at the [[Prime Minister's Official Residence (Japan)|Prime Minister's Official Residence]] on June 3, 1989)]]
Uno encountered public scandal in 1989, when accused by the [[Geisha]] entertainer Mitsuko Nakanishi<ref>{{cite web |last1=Carter |first1=Paul |date=23 October 2011 |title=Obituary: Sosuke Uno |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-sosuke-uno-1158611.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-sosuke-uno-1158611.html |archive-date=2022-05-26 |access-date=28 May 2020 |website=independent.co.uk |publisher=The Independent}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Weisman |first1=Steve R. |date=10 June 1989 |title=Ex-Geisha Accuses Uno Of a Dangerous Liaison |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/10/world/ex-geisha-accuses-uno-of-a-dangerous-liaison.html |access-date=28 May 2020 |website=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> of being "immoral" and ungenerous in his financial support during their four-month affair in 1986. Nakanishi would claim in following newspaper interviews that Uno had treated older geisha with arrogance and contempt, had not paid the appropriate fee of ¥300,000 per month (roughly US$2,100 at the time) for her company of four months, and had not provided a traditional parting gift (a further monetary fee) as had been customary in geisha etiquette.

A ''[[Washington Post]]'' article published in July 1989 brought international attention to the affair,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Blustein |first1=Paul |date=19 July 1989 |title=THE FEMINIST GEISHA |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1989/07/19/the-feminist-geisha/e8348ea5-5042-48a8-96a1-0fffcc521614/ |access-date=28 May 2020 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> with some senior geisha denouncing Nakanishi as a whistleblower, effectively compromising the discreet nature of the profession and violated the traditionalist norms by engaging with political and economic affairs in the public sphere. Nakanishi later quit the profession after she was criticized by the Geisha [[Gion]] Committee. She later remarried another man and divorced, attended a [[Shingon]] Buddhist school temple in [[Shiga Prefecture]], and held various secretarial jobs unrelated to the geisha community. Due to the severity of the scandal, Nakanishi's own son disowned her during this time.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}

[[File:Town Council Visiting Oak Ridge Fire Department (6883074718) (2).jpg|thumb|Sōsuke Uno (at the [[Energy Research and Development Administration]] on 14 September 1977). ]] 

Uno was highly criticized in public not for having a Geisha mistress, as it was a traditional leisure practice expected of politicians and wealthy men but instead due to relating his poor financial habits in the [[Japanese Diet]] as compared and paralleled to the ungenerosity towards his former Geisha mistress. Furthermore, the Geisha was outspoken in public and even made allegations and political suggestions in properly handling the Japanese economy, an unconventional behavior not expected of a traditionalist woman (Geisha culture) in which further exacerbated the situation. 

To avoid further scandal, Sōsuke Uno resigned as prime minister on 10 August 1989 after just 68 days in office, but continued to serve his country in various government posts until he retired fully in 1996. On 29 April 1994, he was awarded with the highest possible honour for an ordinary civilian, the Grand Cordon of the [[Order of the Paulownia Flowers|Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Uno Sōsuke {{pipe}} prime minister of Japan |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Uno-Sosuke}}</ref>