Download or read book Beauty Up written by Laura Miller and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-07-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to Japan's burgeoning beauty culture, which investigates a range of phenomenon - aesthetic salons, dieting products, male beauty activities, and beauty language - to find out why Japanese women and men are paying so much attention to their bodies. It aims to challenge various assumptions about the naturalness of beauty standards.