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EvilHomer - 2013-10-28

Wait... since when did the Yakuza WANT outsiders to get Yakuza tattoos? Let alone hipster gaijin?

I blame video games and hentai. Goddamn virtual reality is turning the Yakuza into a pack of frivolous manchildren.


EvilHomer - 2013-10-28

Also, I'm thinking of starting my own chain of multi-purpose maid cafes here on the East Coast. If a get a Kickstarter going, will you guys donate? k backers will get their first cuddle free.


EvilHomer - 2013-10-28

Also also, beyond 9:00 is remarkably tame by Japanese standards, and I'm a little disappointed in you, candyheadrobot.


Raggamuffin - 2013-10-28

Because it's more fun than NOT making him get a tattoo.


Old_Zircon - 2013-10-28

"Not entirely accurate" should be the byline for everything Vice does.


Old_Zircon - 2013-10-28

Speaking of "not entirely accurate," the description - the stuff BEFORE 9:00 is way more creepy. Especially the cuddle cafe.


Xenocide - 2013-10-28

A cuddle cafe just opened in my city. It charges sixty dollars an hour for all the cuddling you can handle.

Or it was going to. The place was going to open a week ago but it can't convince the city council it's not a front for prostitution.


Lef - 2013-10-28

I was entertained, so 5 stars.

Walking around Kabukicho is really strange, the hostess fashion has shifted to a ludicrous over feminized look. At one point I asked my wife why there were so many transsexuals, turns out they were women trying really hard to look like uber-women and failing.

Same goes for the hosts, it's a neighborhood full of Asian David Bowie look-a-likes.

They could have done an entire documentary on those clubs, the violence, a real examination on who goes there, financials, what happens to these hosts/hostess's when they get too old..

Really just scratched the tip of the iceberg, no soap-lands, pink salons, supposed bestiality restaurants, the "imported" workers from all over Asia, disposal of those workers/slaves, the multi-generational enclaves of non-citizens that often turn to that sector for work. It is a vast, weird, fascinating and ultimately depressing topic.


SolRo - 2013-10-28

I honestly think some of the 'worst' rumors about Japan are made up or embelished and overblown to make them look more badass (except the exploiting/abusing non-japanese asian immigrants. that's easy to believe). And certainly most are rare to the point of being one-off things.


baleen - 2013-10-29

I could see how cuddle cafes could be really useful for people with extremely sad intimacy issues.
Way better than a strip club, where those kinds of guys end up.


EvilHomer - 2013-10-29

Yeah, I'm with baleen here. I'd rather go to a cuddle cafe than a strip club, especially if the cuddle girls are in cosplay.


spikestoyiu - 2013-10-29

Since I've never been to Japan and I'm not a weeaboo, maybe someone can explain to me what's not accurate. I'm not taking Vice at their word here, I'm just curious.


bac - 2013-10-28

I was expecting something about the yakuza adopting kids to be used as sex slaves. This was not that. This was interesting though.


dairyqueenlatifah - 2013-10-28

I skipped right to 9:00. My day remains unruined.

I must be missing something.


Oscar Wildcat - 2013-10-28

The day care center earlier, as many others here suggest. When wire mesh mom lets her mask off and you see the clacking hungry maw of the machine, it's pretty scary stuff. Stars and bars.


spikestoyiu - 2013-10-29

I've been to a ping pong show. My day is generally unruinable.


simon666 - 2013-10-28

NOFX has already reported on this in 'Cool and Unusual Punishment'

Absolute shibari, cold noodles and hot sake
The mistress bar in Roppongi is the place
For Japanese hardcore, not the kind you're gonna find at the record store
Not the kind designed for the kind hearted

Do not pass go, do not get bail
Go directly to Osaka Jail
Where you get locked or drunk under the table

For just under 10,000 yen
You can visit hell and come back again
For the process of hurting and healing
Cake and candle wax dessert
It's not fun ‘til someone gets hurt
Who's the next to get hung from the ceiling

So if you want rewards and consequence
They got the cool and unusual punishments
Get on your knees for Japanese instruction
Rope and Cigarette burns, forget about any health concerns
This is pure assisted self-destruction

Kanpai and bottoms up, unhelping hands hogtie you up
One bad deed surely deserves another
Bruised from bamboo caning
Coming home try explaining this to your significant other
Good fucking luck…


SolRo - 2013-10-28

You know what ruined my day? learning that gigolo makes 0k a year without even having to have sex with ugly and/or fat old women.


Aelric - 2013-10-29

If it makes you feel any better, his career window, barring plastic surgery, is only about 10 years. Being 30 is like being elderly in that industry, even more so for hosts than hostesses, oddly enough. And when he doesn't work as a face anymore, he'll work as a bottom in a seedier place if he hasn't banked that money.

Oh, and then there is the house cut, too, which I don't know if he was factoring in. Usually it starts at 20/80 and moves into a 50/50 thing for top earners from what I understand.


Jet Bin Fever - 2013-10-29

Also, it is REALLY hard to restart a career in Japan. So, I hope he has savings.


SolRo - 2013-10-29

Wow that sounds terrible. They'll only make in 10 years what most people wouldn't even make if they worked for 80 years


Aelric - 2013-10-29

Did you not hear the past about the house cut? With such high pay, he really must be saying the pre-cut number. And yes, straight or not, he will eventually get fucked in the ass if he doesn't save every damn dime of it.

If you still feel jealous, it's honestly not that much to fly over there and give it a shot yourself. Shitty suit, spiky hair and skin gloss, you'll be all set. I briefly met a few westerner hosts, they are a premium over there as long as they speak Japanese.


Riskbreaker - 2013-10-29

Basically, the japanese population will dissapear pretty soon.


Nominal - 2022-05-03

When did Vice start putting a shitty conservative slant on their pieces?

DECLINING BIRTH RATES ARE GOING TO DESTROY THIS COUNTRY! IF ONLY WE HADN'T GRANTED WOMEN ECONOMIC AUTONOMY!

Go watch Great Happiness Space instead. It's a much better doc on host clubs.


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