Hardly the biggest surprise of the week but a worthy topic of news, Tokyo Reporter has highlighted an interesting report of the arrest of a Nigerian club owner arrested by police for drugging and stealing from his customers.
Officers took Emanuel John, the 44-year-old manager of Little Cat, which is located in the in the red-light district of Kabukicho, and three hostesses into custody on theft charges.
On April 20, a hostess allegedly spiked a vodka drink served to a 43-year-old male customer with a sleeping powder. His cash card was then stolen from his wallet and taken to a nearby ...
We recently came across a bilingual interview with a hostess on Jagr Magazine. It seems genuine, though the hostess is apparently not Japanese (shame!).
Here are some highlights.
Interviewer: How does a hostess club work?
Hostess: I came to Tokyo years ago, and I never knew what a hostessing job was, but my dad's friend told me if you want easy money, hostessing's the right job because you're a pretty girl.
I thought hostessing was escorting, but it's actually like a relationship with the men. Ginza hostessing clubs are five stars. The one that I worked at was one of the top three ...
One of the Japanese tabloids has claimed that controversial and outspoken Osaka major Toru Hashimoto had an affair with a hostess between 2006 and 2007.
Hashimoto (below, left) has since admitted his guilt in the latest scandal in his career, which has seen him attack tattooed city workers, teachers, puppet theatre and anyone he didn't agree with in his notorious unapologetically brusque style.
"Well, first I've got to explain to my wife. There's a massive 'penalty' waiting for me at home," he joked at a press conference.
As we've seen before, adultery is no biggie in Japan, ...
Mimi-kaki is the Japanese custom of ear-cleaning, but not just swirling a cotton bud around your lobes like any old perfunctory hygiene task -- but the act of having your ears lovingly tendered to by a maternal young lass, your head traditionally resting in her lap while she soothes your worries away.
It is very common for husbands to be "serviced" in this way and it can often become a form of bonding, or even foreplay, for couples. Psychologists of course will read all sorts of mother fantasies into this relationship.
Even the tool used is different, a kind of bamboo hook with ...
A recent study suggests that one of the top professions young Japanese ladies are going for these days have nothing to do with an office and everything to do with using their feminine charms to get into mens' wallets.
According to News-Post Seven a study was taken back in 2007 and found that many lower class ladies strove to become kyabukura (hostess club) girls due to the lack of prerequisites to enter the job and the great steady salary. When the study was redone recently, they found that this trend has spread to young girls all over Japan. Some even as young as elementary school ...
Have you ever wanted to share a drink with your favorite AV actress? Well it's about time everyone got their wish. We read over at Tokyo Reporter that veteran AV actress Reiko Yamaguchi has recently opened a snack in Kabukicho.
Having been a hostess herself, she's got the experience and wanted to create an arena to connect with her customers. She also knows all too well how to please her customers. One of the services Bar Nude's mama-chan offers is a bottle of sparkling wine for ¥3,000 ($30), which she rubs between her G-cup breasts before she pours -- for no additional charge!
As a side ...
Former actor Manabu Oshio has written a letter detailing his despair, according to tabloid claims. The fifty-page document has been released via his lawyer and is being nicknamed "note from hell."
Oshio is, of course, the guy who last summer was arrested for fleeing his Roppongi apartment. Not such a big deal, right? Well, unfortunately there was a dead girl in there. And naked. And a hostess. Dead from an overdose.
Yep, not a good combination. Of course, the media paints Oshio as the bad boy: promiscuous, arrogant and obviously guilty. The girl was just a victim. Um, if a hostess was ...
Tokyo's red light district of Kabukicho is renowned as being the hub of sin and vice in heart of Shinjuku. It's not the only area of course, but it does have a very large concentration of host and hostess clubs, bars, restaurants, soaplands (brothels), and lots of fun-loving crowds of men and women out for a good time.
Setting foot in this area can be intimidating for foreign visitors. Aside from the fact that foreigners are subtly prohibited from entering the more fun places, the types of folks in Kabukicho are very different from what you'll find in Ginza, Shibuya, and other ...
