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Shukan Post (Dec. 23) closes the year out with a bang, so to speak. Citing an adult video production company employee, the weekly tabloid says that it is common knowledge in the industry that one Japanese woman in 200 has performed in a porn film.

To establish its bearings, the magazine says that in days past one porn actress per 400 female high school and university students was a standard assumption — a figure that represents roughly one woman per graduating class.

To then make the jump to encompass all women, the tabloid breaks down some numbers provided by the production company employee.

“If one considers all AV productions, including those distributed on the Internet and underground DVDs, there are 35,000 productions released each year,” the explains.

That converts to approximately 100 films a day.

“In one year,” the source continues, “between 2,000 and 3,000 new actresses will debut in conventional AV films. All told (including amateurs), the industry has 150,000 experienced women. Now, if one considers that between the ages of 19 and 55 Japan has 30 million women then…”

…one may arrive at that quite striking one-in-200 figure.

Shukan Post finds an industry insider who believes that Japan’s strength is within its abundant supply of potential actresses.

“For roving talent scouts, recently it has become easy for them,” says a porn director who specializes in amateur productions featuring women who get picked up on the street.

“The hurdle in getting women to perform in AV has been set very low,” says the director. “In the Shibuya Center-gai (shopping) area there are women who will negotiate on the spot and sign on quickly.”

As to that one-in-200 ratio, the director is more inclined to put it closer to one in 50. “But this is nothing compared to the fuzoku trade, whose numbers are overwhelming,” the director adds.

According to the National Police Agency, there were 23,000 adult entertainment establishments registered in 2010. If roughly 20 women are employed at the average deri heru or soapland club, then the total number of employees is 460,000 women.

When taking into consideration the above population assumptions used in the AV calculations, the figure represents one woman in 65 — indeed, likely shy of the director’s lofty expectations but eye-catching nonetheless.

Shukan Post then backtracks and crunches the numbers to conclude that to mean three gals in each high school and college class are employed in the sex trade…ah, the days of one’s youth. (A.T.)

Source: “Anata no dokyusei no 3 nin ha fuuzokujo, 1 nin ha AV ni shutsuen shiteiru,” Shukan Post (Dec. 23, page 135)

Note: Brief extracts from Japanese vernacular media in the public domain that appear here were translated and summarized under the principle of “fair use.” Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy of the translations. However, we are not responsible for the veracity of their contents. The activities of individuals described herein should not be construed as “typical” behavior of Japanese people nor reflect the intention to portray the country in a negative manner. Our sole aim is to provide examples of various types of reading matter enjoyed by Japanese.

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The Minami entertainment district of Osaka has seen a serious growth in the sales of drugs designed to fall within a legal gray zone, but law enforcement might get the upper hand with a new law, reports Shukan Asahi Geino (Nov. 3).

“Legal herbs” have documented adverse effects, but there are no laws regulating their possession and utilization, which has putting law enforcement in a difficult position.

“America-mura is known to be an area for drugs,” says a news reporter covering the society beat. “There are 20 clubs situated there, an area smaller than Shibuya, and many often receive illicit drugs, like weed, from foreigners. Pedestrians are approached out of nowhere for possible transactions.”

Dating back approximately one year, shops with signs reading “specializing in legal herbs” began to emerge. Now about 10 can be spotted in one area. With prices in the range of 1,000 to 3,000 yen per gram, most users are teenagers and those in their 20s.

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare defines “legal herbs” to be tea leaves that have had chemicals similar to speed or marijuana applied. The practice started to spread through Japan about a decade ago. When inhaled, the user will hallucinate or become physically excited.

A writer from a magazine that specializes in non-fiction stories tells the tabloid, “You can easily buy the drugs online or at shops. You can even spot them in Tokyo in areas like Shibuya, Shinjuku, and Ikebukuro. It also seems like sales are expanding to suburban areas.”

Some are brazenly inhaling the drugs in front of police boxes, the article reports. “You cam spot regulars smoking and sitting on benches just outside a shop,” says the same society reporter.

While the pharmaceutical law prohibits inhalation, most shops sell them as they would incense. This makes it difficult for police to issue citations.

That might change.

Sales volumes and prices went up during this past August and September. “Suppliers started to unload inventories before a revised pharmaceutical law was to go effect on October 20,” the writer from the same magazine is quoted.

The revised law added six chemicals, which will force most makers of legal herbs to change ingredients. Suppliers were subsequently forced to clean out inventories.

“They also started to supply drugs containing ingredients yet to be regulated,” continues the reporter. “What is scary is that suppliers themselves are not fully familiar with these ingredients. We hope this does not result in a rash of health-related incidents due to serious side effects.” (K.N.)

Source: “Ame-mura de ‘taima modoki’ doraggu ga dairyukochu keikan no mae de wakamono ga dodo to genkaku torippu shite,” Shukan Asahi Geino (Nov. 3, page 58)

Note: Brief extracts from Japanese vernacular media in the public domain that appear here were translated and summarized under the principle of “fair use.” Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy of the translations. However, we are not responsible for the veracity of their contents. The activities of individuals described herein should not be construed as “typical” behavior of Japanese people nor reflect the intention to portray the country in a negative manner. Our sole aim is to provide examples of various types of reading matter enjoyed by Japanese.

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“These days it’s not rare at all to see two women going into a room together,” a maid at a Tokyo love hotel tells Shukan Jitsuwa (Aug. 18). “I’ve been at this job for 15 years. About five years ago, I noticed that more women started coming here together. The numbers picked up after our management instituted a ‘ladies’ day,’ offering a 30 percent discount, which we do twice a month. On those days, from noon onwards the place is filled to capacity with paired off housewives or university students.”

But, the reporter wonders, how can you know if the women are using the rooms for sex?

“When I clean out the waste receptacles there are always some telltale signs,” the maid replies. “Things like discarded tissue paper with some clear fluid having a sweet and sour scent. Some have public hairs clinging to it. And from time to time I’m surprised when they leave behind a vibrator.

“These days, with men falling out of favor, I guess it’s expected that more women will want to pleasure one another. And unlike sex with men, which is over once they have ejaculated, women can keep going to enjoy themselves endlessly,” the maid says.

So with more women feeling the urge to fondle a fellow female, it shouldn’t be surprising that commercial services have made their appearance.

“Over the past several years, deri heru (out-call sex services) for women have begun to spring up,” says “pink” journalist Teruhiko Aoyama. “In the past numerous places opened, only to shut down shortly afterwards due to a lack of business. But now we’re seeing quite a few of them that have lasted three to five years and are still going strong.

“I suppose this is painful evidence that many women now have become resigned to the fact that they can’t find a man to give them what they need, so they’re turning to women instead.”

Since companies are being pushed to conserve electric power this summer, it has opened up new opportunities for women to get together.

Shukan Jitsuwa is introduced to a 26-year-old woman who moonlights at a lesbian deri heru club in Ikebukuro.

“Because more OLs can leave their office an hour earlier than usual, I’m getting more calls from them,” she tells the magazine. “They tell me that their male co-workers seldom invite them out for a drink due — partly due to the bad economy and partly due to the mood of ‘self restraint’ since the March 11 earthquake. But anyway, these gals are starting to miss not getting any action and have started searching on the Web or asking around. Once they try doing it with a woman, a lot of them get hooked for good.”

A 22-year-old woman in Shibuya gives another reason why women are fleeing men for sex with their own gender.

“Men don’t come on to them,” she says. “They won’t hold hands and even when they do invite a girl to their place, nothing seems to happen. And when the guys work up their courage and ask a gal to do it with them, they usually have some flaky requests they picked up from watching too many adult videos — like wanting to ejaculate on her face or work her over with a vibrator.

“These women are so disappointed, it’s hardly surprising they turn to other women.”

A 25-year-old gal named Keiko describes how she uses her free time after work to earn extra money on the side as a hooker for women.

What got her started in the trade was her seduction by a female co-worker 20 years her senior.

“She invited me to her home. I felt some resistance because of the difference in our ages, but she knew I was upset because I’d just broken off with my boyfriend.

“I’ll take care of you,” she whispered in my ear, while gently massaging my nipples with her middle fingers.

“I felt secure and aroused in turns. She embraced me and said, ‘Go ahead and cum whenever you feel like it.’ Soon we were chewing each other’s carpets in the 69 position, and her tongue was going over my ‘pearl’ and I was coming continuously. Then she made a “U” with her thumb and fingers and thrust them inside me, rubbing against the entrance to my urethra, and I was yelping and moaning as I came.

“That was an advanced lesson for me on how to treat a woman.”

Now, through advertisements on a web site called “Mama Recruitment,” she dispenses therapy to about 15 customers a month — mostly married women with no sex life — supplementing her income by around 150,000 yen. (K.S.)

Source: “Samaa taimu dounyuu de kyuuzou, nadeshiko OL no ‘rezu baishun,’” Shukan Jitsuwa (Aug. 18, page 49)

Note: Brief extracts from Japanese vernacular media in the public domain that appear here were translated and summarized under the principle of “fair use.” Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy of the translations. However, we are not responsible for the veracity of their contents. The activities of individuals described herein should not be construed as “typical” behavior of Japanese people nor reflect the intention to portray the country in a negative manner. Our sole aim is to provide examples of various types of reading matter enjoyed by Japanese.

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Nikkan Gendai (Apr. 20) is 17 installments along in a series that professes to track the looming “economic depression” caused by the March 11 catastrophe in Tohoku. This time, it takes a look at the love hotel business.

“Things have hit rock bottom,” the operator of one such business whines to the tabloid. Salarymen, it seems, are just not in the mood to tipple and then, while in their cups, spend their hard-earned cash on nookie.

While the year was already starting to show signs of slumping demand from early January, customers started making a comeback in late February, and March was looking up until Friday the 11th. Then demand soared.

“Every love hotel in the city was booked solid, with people who couldn’t get home because the trains had stopped running,” said the aforementioned proprietor. “A lot of the customers, not wanting to be alone, picked up girls from the bars and spent the night with them.

“But by the third day following the quake, business tapered off. The aftershocks were unnerving, and daunted by the devastation up north, more people were swept up in the spirit of self-restraint.

“We’ve seen a very slight upturn from the end of March, but business is only about 50 percent of what it should be. Places doing really well might be up to 70 percent.”

Occupancy time has also declined.

“Before, couples would come during the early hours and take advantage of the discount to stay three whole hours,” the source says. “Now, they’re in and out in about an hour.” Apparently one pop is all a guy gets, and then it’s time to hit the road.

Another new development is that nervous customers habitually request rooms on the 2nd or 3rd floors, which are easier to evacuate in the case of a major quake, so rooms on the 4th floor and above tend to go vacant. To encourage more people to love dangerously, so to speak, a hotel in Tokyo’s Shibuya district that is utilized by deri-heru establishments (out-call sex services) offers its upper-story rooms for a bargain-basement 1,300 yen per 75 minutes.

“Due to gasoline shortages, hotels in rural areas, such as Ibaraki, have been hit particularly hard,” says a writer covering the pink trade. “And let’s face it —nobody feels like getting laid when they’re downwind from a nuclear reactor meltdown.”

As if things weren’t bad enough, since many of the part-time Chinese and Korean workers employed to clean the rooms have fled in panic to their home countries, hotel owners have also been obliged to do the housekeeping chores themselves. (K.S.)

Source: “Sarariman ga sukebegokoro wo ushinai, uriage hangen,” Nikkan Gendai (Apr. 20, page 11)

Note: Brief extracts from Japanese vernacular media in the public domain that appear here were translated and summarized under the principle of “fair use.” Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy of the translations. However, we are not responsible for the veracity of their contents. The activities of individuals described herein should not be construed as “typical” behavior of Japanese people nor reflect the intention to portray the country in a negative manner. Our sole aim is to provide examples of various types of reading matter enjoyed by Japanese.

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Years from now when men reminisce over the great earthquake of March 11, 2011, only a few will be able to answer, “I was right in the middle of getting laid, and believe me, it was no fun!”

As reported by Tokyo Sports (March 13), the scenario was reminiscent of a scene from the film series “Friday the Thirteenth.” The time was 2:48 p.m. As pedestrians looked on, two customers at an erotic massage parlor in Tokyo’s Shibuya district — and the young females who were servicing them — felt the building begin to sway ominously and came dashing out of the private rooms, down the stairs, out the door and onto the street.

“One of the customers, who was apparently right in the middle of getting it off, pulled on his blue jeans and came running down the steps like a bat out of hell,” says a male attendant at the shop. “The girl, wrapppped in nothing but a bath towel, was right behind him. I heard her shout, ‘Whatever else happens, I don’t want to die in a shop like that.’”

“The other masseuses evacuated the building and were shivering outside in the parking lot next door,” says the employee. “But you know the sex urge is really amazing — even while so many people were on the verge of panicking, four more customers showed up at the shop. Three of them were regulars.”

Maybe, Tosupo chuckles, they wanted to go out with a bang.

Unfortunately for these customers, the girls insisted on leaving.

“My doggie’s at home all by himself. What if he’s dead or dying?” one exclaimed.

Left with no other choice, the manager closed up the shop for the rest of the day. (K.S.)

Source: “‘Kyaku to onna no ko ga taoru ichimai de dasshutsu,” Tokyo Sports (Mar. 13, page 12)

Note: Brief extracts from Japanese vernacular media in the public domain that appear here were translated and summarized under the principle of “fair use.” Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy of the translations. However, we are not responsible for the veracity of their contents. The activities of individuals described herein should not be construed as “typical” behavior of Japanese people nor reflect the intention to portray the country in a negative manner. Our sole aim is to provide examples of various types of reading matter enjoyed by Japanese.

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This may be the Year of the Rabbit, but Nikkan Gendai (Jan. 1) predicts that Japanese women will not be satisfied nibbling on mere carrots.

The daily tabloid says that the rise of nikushokukei joshi (肉食系女子), or carnivorous women, will continue to pick up steam in the year 2011. Fuzoku writer Yukio Murakami explains that women are increasingly viewing themselves differently.

“Women believe that they too should be able to freely enjoy sex just as men do,” the sex scribe says. “Even with steady boyfriends they’ll still approach men at train stations as the evening’s last train approaches. The rationale behind such behavior is rooted in simple sexual desire that occurs right before the menstrual period or the thought that it’s better to stay at a love hotel than going home.

“Most of these ladies, aged in their late 20s to late 30s, do not ask for financial compensation,” Murakami continues. “They are simply looking for excitement.”

A similar type of woman can be spotted in the youth Mecca of Shibuya, specifically the Center-gai area.

“Girls with flexible jobs roam around during the day and give signs, such as a wink, to handsome guys,” comments a female writer. “They approach boys of their liking by saying, ‘I don’t need money so let’s go straight to a love hotel.’ Unlike a prostitute, it’s not for quick cash so they won’t pick up just any guy.”

Of course, the question is: Why is this unfolding now?

“While they say it is due to sexual liberation, that is nominal,” asserts Murakami. “The reality is that they see the unease with North Korea and China’s aggression and find it worrisome. Their maternal instinct is making them aggressive in wanting to leave behind more offspring.”

The article surmises that this is similar to the samurai eras of shoguns Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, when similar scenes took place just as their regimes were about to crumble.

2011 could be a dream for womanizers, drools Nikkan Gendai, but the challenge is for you, dear reader, to up your game if you want to be a player. (K.N.)

Source: “Sekkusu sayuku ga machi wo haikai suru,” Nikkan Gendai (Jan. 1, page 5)

Note: Brief extracts from Japanese vernacular media in the public domain that appear here were translated and summarized under the principle of “fair use.” Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy of the translations. However, we are not responsible for the veracity of their contents. The activities of individuals described herein should not be construed as “typical” behavior of Japanese people nor reflect the intention to portray the country in a negative manner. Our sole aim is to provide examples of various types of reading matter enjoyed by Japanese.

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A young girl plying the trade known as enjokosai, or compensated dating, is hardly new. Yet, observes Shukan Jitsuwa (Aug. 19), the glut of school gals on summer break and the harsh economy are combining to make present conditions in Tokyo anything but a seller’s market.

The tabloid cites the entertainment areas of Shinjuku, Ikebukuro and Shibuya as common hot spots. Many young females migrate from the countryside and must offer sharp discounts, or gekiyasu enko, as slashed bonuses for salaried workers have become the norm.

Seated on a street corner is a 19-year-old from Niigata Prefecture. “I came to Tokyo to earn money for one week,” says the brown-haired girl. “I have only have a few hundred yen. Tonight I can’t find anyone. If someone will pay 5,000 yen and the hotel fee that’s acceptable…”

In Shibuya, the writer finds a deeply tanned female in a miniskirt. She does not offer sex, only hand-jobs, and handles five customers a day. Referred to as tekoki enko, the service costs 3,000 yen a pull.

Oftentimes, however, the girls will abstain from independent contracting and utilize agents, who entice prospective talent with rates of 50,000-yen per day. On websites or through ads in evening sports newspapers, the pimps will collect clients interested in Lolita-like lasses and arrange a deri heru, or call-girl, setup at a love hotel.

“A high school girl and can get 50,000 yen a day,” explains a writer for a national daily. “For a middle school girl it’s around 70,000 yen. But recently elementary school girls have been able to fetch 120,000 yen for one shot.”

The money is just one thing, says the writer. The girls also find the arrangement safer than working solo as the chances for trouble from an uncooperative client are reduced.

“If the police crack down on one organized service,” continues the source, “there will always be another ready to serve. There are so many students out on summer vacation.”

Cafes described as deai-kei establishments oftentimes will specialize in matching hookers with Johns. Girls enter free and can enjoy surfing the Web or reading manga comics. Guys observe their activities through a one-way mirror and then choose a girl who meets their fancy. The couple will then move to another booth and talk for 10 minutes. If an agreement is brokered, the guy will pay a fee to the cafe and transportation costs to the girl before heading out on a date.

Once summer vacation starts, Shukan Jitsuwa notes, the cafes are at full capacity.

“Most deai cafes are just for prostitution purposes,” explains fuzoku writer Yukio Murakami. “Probably 70 to 80 percent of the girls will allow sex if the money is right.”

The magazine then moves on to a street filled with kyabakura clubs, which offer hostess services, to examine the swindling of university students.

Waseda, Rikkyo, Meiji and Gakushuin universities are usually well represented but nowadays Tsuda College and Aoyama Gakuin University, known as “princess” schools since girls from wealthy families often attend, are entering the picture.

The con takes place at the recruitment stage. Students will be offered a generic kyabakura role only to later find out that the establishment is a sekukyaba,, where the kissing and fondling of exposed breasts is offered, or ichakyaba, in which touching takes place through worn garments.

“Even when they find out that touching and kissing are allowed they won’t quit because they are getting paid,” says a kyabakura employee. “It’s easy to trick them because they don’t know how the night world works.”

Runaways, it seems, have it no better. Wayward females will post requests for lodging on online sites. “In the postings, they’ll use the word kami (god) to describe the potential suitor but really he is an okami (wolf),” explains an editor at a fuzoku rag. “Since no one will offer free lodging, they are going to want sex. And since they are runaways, they have no means of recourse if there is a problem. I know of one girl that wound up shooting up on dope and got raped.”

Speaking of drugs, the use of shabu is escalating at an alarming rate, reports the magazine. Inexperienced girls will try it for the first time at a club, perhaps in Shibuya. “The girls will be told by a seller that they can get high on MDMA for 5,000 yen,” says a person in the club industry. “MDMA is a drug that enhances sexual pleasure, and one hit could lead to repeated use.”

Law enforcement authorities tell the tabloid that summer can be the start of a dangerous descent. “They might think that they are doing enko ‘only for summer vacation,’” says a source related to the police. “But that is just the beginning. There could be stress so they might go to a host club. They might also start up with drugs, pile up debts, get mentally sick or suffer a physical ailment. Life can get bizarre. It’s dangerous earning money in the sex trade, and it’s best to be on guard.” (A.T.)

Source: “Nettaiya ni ugomeku aoise wo uru shojotachi michaku 24ji,” Shukan Jitsuwa (Aug. 19, pages 52-54)

Note: Brief extracts from Japanese vernacular media in the public domain that appear here were translated and summarized under the principle of “fair use.” Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy of the translations. However, we are not responsible for the veracity of their contents. The activities of individuals described herein should not be construed as “typical” behavior of Japanese people nor reflect the intention to portray the country in a negative manner. Our sole aim is to provide examples of various types of reading matter enjoyed by Japanese.

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Tokyo Metropolitan University, or TMU, was formed in 2005 by the merger of four public institutions of higher learning in the Tokyo area. The institution was in the headlines recently when two of its seniors majoring in system design were summarily expelled.

The two had come up with a project they named “Dobusu wo Mamoru Kai” (group to protect ugly women).

“They went around on the street accosting women, saying they were ‘researching an article,’” a source at TMU tells Shukan Shincho (July 8). “Later it was determined that the video, showing the faces of certain women, had been posted on YouTube without the subjects’ permission.”

The school’s investigation found that on three occasions the pair had gone to Shibuya, Shinjuku, Tachikawa and other places in Tokyo and filmed a total of six female subjects “on location.” At least two of the six had data posted in a manner that enabled them to be identified by name.

The one shot at Tachikawa, filmed on June 12, ran for about six minutes in length. Its opening included this introduction by the producers: “Presently in Japan, dobusu (ugly girls) are endangered with extinction a possibility. Through dissemination of information more women are finding it easy to improve their appearance through cosmetics, fashion and hair styling, and in addition thanks to advancements in cosmetic surgery they are able to boost their appearance to the minimum level.”

The producers of this goofy video were actually dumb enough to include their own names in the credits at the end.

“After they submitted the video a friend who saw it chewed them out, and they deleted it, but the next day it was resubmitted,” the aforementioned school source relates.

By June 17, copies of the video had been spreading like wildfire all over the Web, and the following day TMU’s home page posted an apology from the president.

Then on June 24, the school announced that the two would be expelled from the institution. A third student who had provided the background music for the video was suspended from attending classes for one month.

The reasons given for the expulsion were for having made persons’ images public without permission; causing psychological harm to said persons; and damaging the university’s public image.

Shukan Shincho reports that the families of the students involved have been subjected to abusive telephone calls. From his home in Tottori Prefecture, father of one of the two told the magazine, “I saw the offending video. It was done in the humorous style of a TV variety show, but was lacking in morality and was cruel to the persons involved.

“I first learned about it in late June,” the father continues. “A complete stranger called me up at work, telling me she was in the process of organizing a protest and saying, ‘Do you know what your son’s been up to?’ Why didn’t he drop out of the university of his own volition?’”

Both students were in the process of job seeking, but their future prospects with employers appear to be in doubt. (C.J.)

Source: “‘Dobusu wo mamoru kai’ de shutodaigaku wo taigaku ‘bakatare daigakusei’ oya ga naiteita!” Shukan Shincho (July 8, page 40)

Note: Brief extracts from Japanese vernacular media in the public domain that appear here were translated and summarized under the principle of “fair use.” Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy of the translations. However, we are not responsible for the veracity of their contents. The activities of individuals described herein should not be construed as “typical” behavior of Japanese people nor reflect the intention to portray the country in a negative manner. Our sole aim is to provide examples of various types of reading matter enjoyed by Japanese.

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On June 3, the Tokyo MPD’s vice squad slapped the cuffs on a baker’s dozen of people allegedly involved in call-girl ring. Shukan Jitsuwa (June 24) reports that Michinori Matsushita (age 31), the operator, was charged with having sent a 27-year-old “campaign girl” to service four male customers at hotels in Tokyo’s Shibuya district between March 18 and May 23.

But the cops were astonished to find that the scale of the operation was a lot more than they had bargained for.

“The club operated under 13 different names,” a crime reporter for a daily newspaper is quoted as saying. “The number of registered club members was about 27,000, and its revenues over the past two years is estimated to have exceeded 1 billion yen.”

The secret of the success of club “Innocent,” or “White Love” — or any of the other names by which Matsushita marketed his ladies — was that is delivered a high-quality product. He is reported to have maintained a stable of 200 females, many of whom, he claimed, worked in show business or as fashion models.

Shukan Jitsuwa managed to track down a former customer who told the magazine, “I was initially wary of their claims about the girls, but for 100,000 yen for two hours, they would send you a budding talent from a TV variety show.”

The club offered members a variety of services, including SM and threesomes, with rates ranging from 30,000 to over 500,000 yen.

The MPD vice squad has supposedly got its hands on the club’s membership list, and, if reports are correct, is now poring over the names of “several hundred” VIPs, including influential names in Japanese politics, business and showbiz.

“It’s expected this will eventually have far-ranging repercussions,” the abovementioned reporter predicts. “The police are proceeding carefully with their investigation.” (K.S.)

Source: “Kyangaru ga muragatta tonai saidai baishun kurabu tekihatsu,” Shukan Jitsuwa (June 24, page 203)

Note: Brief extracts from Japanese vernacular media in the public domain that appear here were translated and summarized under the principle of “fair use.” Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy of the translations. However, we are not responsible for the veracity of their contents. The activities of individuals described herein should not be construed as “typical” behavior of Japanese people nor reflect the intention to portray the country in a negative manner. Our sole aim is to provide examples of various types of reading matter enjoyed by Japanese.

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At long last, the Tokyo government finally got around to passing an ordinance prohibiting men to approach women on the street and solicit them to take jobs in the sex industry. And recently, reports Nikkan Gendai (Apr. 21), Yusuke Yoshino, a 30-year-old operator of a massage joint in Shibuya, and three of his cohorts were arrested for violating the ordinance.

“Last November, Yoshino and his crew talked a 19-year-old woman into working at the massage joint,” says a police source. “Using the same technique, they had hired over 200 women that way.”

The source added that in addition to the ordinance, which was ostensibly passed because such activity was treated as a public nuisance, Yoshino’s massage joint was also charged under a law that prevents bottakuri (overcharging customers).

The scouts had come up with a new system that they thought would circumvent the ordinance.

“What they do is invite the girl into a coffee shop,” explains “pink” journalist Yukio Murakami. “Then when they get the girls to sit down over coffee, they’ll ask, ‘Hey, would you like to work in a massage joint?’

“In other words what they claim to be doing is nampa (pick-up), and this avoids being noticed by the cops on the street. They might approach as many as 200 girls in the course of a single day, of whom maybe one or two will take the job. And the sex shop will pick up the tab for the coffee.”

How generous of them.

According to Nikkan Gendai, another technique for soliciting girls is through the use of phony blogs that ask them to take part in some survey. Once they obtain the girl’s email address, they’ll spam her with invitations to turn tricks.

But is this slippery solicitation really worth all the effort?

Definitely. As Murakami explains, the scouts receive a finder’s fee equivalent to between 10 and 20 percent of the girl’s take, for as long as she stays in the shop.

“Some scouts have been known to rake in 4 million yen a month,” he says. “And recently some girls who have got out of the life have started working as scouts.”

Since Yoshino got thrown in the slammer, his Shibuya sex shop has been forced to recruit new staff via its home page. And that, according to a source, has resulted in a drastic drop in the quality of its workers. So to procure pretty petunias for your place of ill repute, Nikkan Gendai proclaims, street scouts are a necessary evil. (K.S.)

Source: “Ihou sukautoman no arasegi,” Nikkan Gendai (Apr. 21, page 5)

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