Should we accept more Gaijin customers? A view from the front-lines of the Japanese fuzoku

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So, I was just looking at some deliheru shop’s websites and my wiki rabbit hole habits acted up and I found myself reading this article on a fuzoku hiring info site. Anyway, it’s by an unnamed woman who works (or worked?) on the frontlines of the fuzoku business. I think many TAG members are like me, wanting to get into the fuzoku scene but keep getting frustrated with how closed it is. Even if we know the rules, satisfied with just getting half the selection, are willing to pay a tax, and for some even speak Japanese (very well in some cases) we can still get the door shut on us. I think it is good to also see the perspective from a fuzoku lady regarding allowing foreigners to go into her private territory, literally.

It was an interesting read for me, so thought it might be interesting for others too, to get a glimpse from the other side.

The original Japanese article is here (Part 1, Part 2), if you can read Japanese, I’d suggest you just head there and read the two parts yourself. Otherwise, I’ve translated the entire article which you can read below. I’ve tried to stick as close to her original article as possible, as I want it to be her words, her thoughts, her tone. But things will always get lost in translation, especially since my Japanese isn’t that good and google translate can sometimes be more confusing than helpful.

*Note: All bold and/or red emphasis are hers, while my personal notes are in orange.

WARNING! NOT A SHORT READ!!!

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The 2020 Olympics is coming soon! Will we see an increase in foreign fuzoku customers?
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With the Tokyo Olympic nearing, Japan is trying to reassert its status as a tourist friendly country. The heated discussion and buzzwords like inbound and private rentals (services like Airbnb) from a few years ago are behind us, we’re now just a little over a year away from 2020.

Tourists and immigrants have seen an increase, spearheaded by countries such as Korea, China, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia. With more distant countries like Brazil and Nepal following.

While you are walking around Ikebukuro, Okubo, Gotanda, you have probably noticed how often you will hear foreign languages spoken.

It is obvious to everyone that the number of foreigners has increased.

Naturally that also means more foreigners are using our services, and that, of course, includes fuzoku services.

As we get closer to the 2020 Olympics, will we continue to see a rise in the number of foreigners using fuzoku services?

Is it profitable? Should we be actively targeting that customer base? Or should we stay away from it entirely? What are the potential problems and challenges?

This post is for all the woman who are asking themselves those very questions.

The first part will focus on fuzoku shops foreigners are able to use right now.



Fuzoku shops foreigners can use

Over the past several years, there has been an increase in the number of fuzoku shops that will accept male foreigners. Some have an English and Chinese specific webpage, or even have receptionists that can speak English and other languages. There are also a few shops that exists to serve foreigners exclusively.


Fuzoku shops that also allow foreigners

However, a substantial amount of shops is still refusing their services to foreigners.

The reasons include:

· Cultural differences, which makes it hard to explain the rules and the process flow of fuzoku services.

· Language-wise, it is difficult to have staff that can properly explain the shop’s services.

· If there’s any trouble, it will be difficult to resolve.

· There aren’t many ladies who can or are will to serve foreigners.

For shops that advertise themselves as “foreigner OK” (or “Foreigner friendly” in English) (like on Purelovers.com with the “non-Japanese ok” sign), they will usually:

· Not allow the customer to pick the ladies themselves.

· Have an extra charge (the dreaded foreigner tax)

· Won’t allow short or long courses, only 90 minute courses.

· Still refuse service to some foreigners of a certain race or nationality.

· Only serve those that can speak Japanese, or some Japanese and English.

· Have other restrictions that Japanese customers do not have (for example, that their smartphone must have mobile wifi access, or cannot pick certain play courses or options, etc).

So, yeah, perhaps not as “friendly” as they claim to be.

For those reasons, certain shops that makes themselves easier for foreigners to use are getting a lot the attention.


Fuzoku shops that cater specifically to foreigners

While these are rare, they do exist.

When a foreigner is looking for sexual services in Japan they can go to some portal sites and forums that have a list of “Foreigner-exclusive fuzoku”, “Foreigner OK fuzoku” and independent escorts (very few are Japanese woman).

It’s worth noting that the foreigner-exlusive fuzoku shops do not always get better reviews than normal Japanese-only shops. (or should this line be translated as “It should be noted that the foreigner-exclusive fuzoku shops do not necessarily get better reviewed than an average quality shop”? This line somewhat confuses me and since she emphasized this point, I want to get her point across properly. Also, is she talking about “reviews by foreigners specifically” or just reviews in general, like by Japanese users on Cityheaven or other review sites? Again, it’s unclear to me, but I sense she’s trying to setup for her views in Part 2 here depending on which one she’s talking about.)

Just being “foreigner friendly” doesn’t guarantee a steady flow of customers, some of these shops can still find themselves idling often. (or should this line be translated as “Some shops that are known to welcome foreigners can find themselves idling quite often because of this”?)



It is your choice whether you are OK with foreigners or not

Decide for yourself whether you want to accept foreign customers or not, which options they have access to and if you allow delivery to the same places as Japanese customers.

Shhh…just between you and me here, you can set very detailed requirements like:

· As long as they’re Asian

· As long as they understand some Japanese

· I don’t want customers of X race/nationality

You’re free to set any requirements you want.

This is not a discrimination, it is understandable that some woman may find serving foreigners they are unfamiliar with difficult.

For example, imagine if this was you:

· It’s the first week of your first fuzoku job

· You don’t speak any foreign languages

· You’ve never travelled overseas

Now, here comes a customer, a Dinka man from South Sudan (first time in Japan, first time using a fuzoku service and can’t speak any Japanese). There’s little hope you can communicate properly with him, do you think you can get through a mat play session with him?

It would be very hard to do, wouldn’t it?



What foreigners think

When it comes to what male foreigner think of Japan’s fuzoku scene, they have both good and bad opinions:

The Good

· A heaven where I can make sweet love to the Japanese Girl (大和撫子) of my dreams.

· Japanese girls are so small and Kawaii (cute).

· Japanese fuzoku places are so different from the sex shops where I am. They’re so varied and interesting, all kinds of different types of play available.

· It’s hard to hold a conversation with a Japanese since they don’t know English, which makes it really hard to meet a girl outside. They hear talks about this fuzoku thing and hear bits and pieces about all the wonderful girls they can “meet”, shops to go check out and things you can do.

· Fuzoku woman offer great service and are very courteous.

The Bad

· Stupidly expensive compared to other Asian countries.

· The girls have a bad figure. Too thin, tiny breasts and none of dat thicc ass. Hugging them is like hugging a little boy.

· In a country that has such poor English language skills, it’ll be impossible to communicate with anyone.

· Filled with a bunch of so-called “sex shops” where you can’t have SEX! WTF?

· Gaijin only gets the bad unpopular girls.



The difference between other countries’ sex business and Japan’s

“Fuzoku” is something really unique to Japan.

Other countries also have a sex industry of their own. While they are each different in their own way, most of them can be described as a “sex business”.

Prostitutes, call girls, escort girls, there’s a whole bunch of names for them. Some work in a shop while others work outside on their own.

Basically, the main thing offered is Full Service.

Just that and some foreplay, unlike Japan which offers a wide variety of play styles such as mat play and image play.



Summary

What do foreigners think of Japan’s current fuzoku scene

How does Japan’s current fuzoku scene deal foreigners in return

That’s what this Part 1 of 2 tries to go through.

In Part 2, for those of you who are still interested, we will talk about the pros and cons of accepting foreign customers.


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Part 2 – Fuzoku work with foreign customers
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This is a continuation from Part 1

For woman interested in Fuzoku work with foreign customers

We will now talk about its merits and demerits


The merits and demerits of Fuzoku work with foreign customers

You can earn money in Fuzoku without serving any foreign customers. However, if you do accept them, there are merits to doing so.


The various merits

1. Lower risk of having your identity exposed working in foreigner-exclusive shops

This is certainly an attractive advantage.

Most Japanese don’t even know there are foreigner-exclusive fuzoku shops, the chance of them randomly go onto those websites and finding you is pretty slim.

Currently, foreigner-exclusive fuzoku shops are all deliheru-style shops.

Therefore, you’re sent directly to hotels or residences, you won’t ever be spotted walking with the customer.

2. Higher price

Now right cheap fuzoku shops are very popular.

Everywhere you see shops doing discount events to lower their prices, a normal shop is better at maintaining a steady earning than high class shops.

To have good earnings in a higher priced shop you must put in a lot of effort.

However, in a foreign-only shop…

Firstly, they have lower recruitment standards for the price range.

This is because it is hard to get many women to join.

For that price range, Japanese men will not consider those fuzoku places considering the quality of the women working there.

Then there are the high prices they charge.

For example,

With normal deliheru, your cut from a 60 minutes course is 8,000-9,000 yen

For cheaper MILF shops it’s around 6,000 yen.

But in foreigner-only shops, it’s 12,000 yen for a 60 minutes course with CBJ

For BBBJ it’s another 4,000 extra.

Really good isn’t it?

3. You get to enjoy the atmosphere of studying abroad

Like the English language

Want to learn a foreign language

Like overseas travel

Want to get to know some foreigners

These kinds of woman would enjoy having foreign customers.

Japan is known abroad for being a “country inconvenient for those that can’t speak Japanese”, if you try to be active and talk to them in English or Chinese, they will be very happy.


There are also demerits

Of course, there are disadvantages as well.

1. A sense of unease

Compare to Japanese men, white men and black men are more likely to be well-built.

When you can’t communicate well with them, that can make you anxious.

How thoroughly did they shop explain the rules to them? If something happens how will you be able handle it?

There can be a level of distrust, I fear a fragile woman who can only speak Japanese will not be able to take it well.

2. Odor

I’m definitely not saying all foreigners stink, please don’t get me wrong.

But on average, foreigners have a worst body odor and use stronger cologne.

For women more sensitive to odors, the stronger smell might be a little hard for them to take.

Actually, Japanese have their own unique odor (and it’s not a good one). However, for those of us born and raised here, we’ve just become insensitive to it.

You know that heavy mixed smell in a department store’s cosmetics section?

If that smells good to you then you’re probably fine, but if you get a headache from the stink this could be dangerous.

3. Other things I’ve heard

Rape

Pushy

Stubbornness

Violent

There is a fraction of men who are like this, whether they’re Japanese or not. I don’t think it’s a “Japanese are…” “foreigners are…” type of issue.

I’ve had American, Chinese, Korean, British, German customers, all behaved like gentlemen.

Personally, I think foreigners are more afraid of causing trouble and getting the police involved, so will be more well behaved.

That’s the image I have.

But there are some ladies who work at the same shop as me,

Who have had foreign customers force them to do things against their will.

There was a time one opened the door and saw, unexpectedly, that there were two men inside, which frightened her and she just panicked and ran.

There are other things I’ve heard, I won’t go through them here.


Fuzoku shops that are popular with foreigners

Japanese Fuzoku experiences that they want to try at least once

Here are the fuzoku experiences Male foreigners who come to Japan will probably want to try at least once.

I can totally understand why they would.

· Soapland

A full service that lasts until the end. One can also enjoy the traditional Nuru massage soap play.

· Brothels (They used to exist in the open in the past, her use of brothels (ちょんの間) here most likely refers to places like Tobita Shinchi)

It’s like you're time-slipping into another era. It’s also cheap.

· Cosplay type fuzoku

When you think of Japan cosplay and anime certainly comes to mind.

· Massage type

A very “Asian-like experience”. One is probably tired from their travels, why not kill two birds with one stone?

· Fuzoku shops with AV actresses

There are many fans of Japanese AV. If one can have sex with a Japanese AV actress it would surely be an unforgettable memory to take home.

Also, the rich, famous and society’s elites who need to be more cautious in public have a preference for deliheru.

Free-to-roam tourists and those who spend long periods of time in Japan seem to prefer incall herusu and hote-heru.


Will we see an increase?

Will there be more fuzoku shops that want to capitalize on foreign customers?

As we get closer to the 2020 Olympics, will we see more foreigner-friendly shops?

And what will happen after the Olympics?

Thoughts regarding these questions:

· Right before/after the Olympics, and from then on into the future, there will certainly be more foreigners using fuzoku services.

· There will not be a large increase in the number of shops that will accept foreigners. It will be business as usual. Shops will accept them on the side depending on how much resources they have.

That’s likely to be what happens.

When the decision to hold the Olympics in Tokyo was made, all over Japan people thought we were suddenly going to turn into a Bi-lingual society. But in reality, not much has changed.

Also, the Chinese rush buying-spree has settled down now.

Further, with the increasing number of foreigners living in Japan, foreigners serving other foreigners in the sex business has increased as well.


Summary

That said, it isn’t like there’s a shortage of male foreigners who want to have a good time with Japanese women.

When it comes to actively accepting foreign customers, those who put more energy into it will certainly make more money easily.

Around the time of the Olympics it would certainly be a great time to make money, so it’s not a bad idea to start getting used to it now, right?

When picking the store:

· Foreigner-exclusive shops are prospering. There’s no reason for them to change their business model.

· For shops that serve mainly Japanese customers, that also accept foreign customers, it is important to take note of the customer base. Stay away from shops that are too cheap.

· Choose a shop with strong and reliable staffs. Stores with unreliable staffs who have no language skills are riskier.

Please base your decision on these three points.
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That’s the end of the two-part article.

Did anyone really make it this far?

I’m quite happy to see someone on the front-lines of the fuzoku industry share these rather positive thoughts on the dilemma, especially on a large fuzoku hiring site. Too bad there’s no comment section there, would love to see others share their views on it too.

I feel more understanding of the resistance towards foreigners after looking from their perspective, especially after reading a few other articles on there as well. Many things about the gloomy side of the industry there, the dark side of the fuzoku moon that we never get to see as customers. It’s a job after all, I guess we all know how it is.

Lastly, now tell me honestly, did you pass that Dinka manhood test? Think YOU can do it?
 
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Thanks for all the effort on the translation! I have done a very small amount, and agree it is draining. After 1 or 2 paragraphs, I start getting a headache!
 
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Thanks for all the effort on the translation! I have done a very small amount, and agree it is draining. After 1 or 2 paragraphs, I start getting a headache!
Yeah, when translating stuff I do get that headache, quite literally. I have the utmost respect for professional translators, especially the interpreters that can do it live on the spot. It's like they've got one brain listening to the input, and another processing the output.
 
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I think you may have missed the part about the Dinka manhood test....

FWIW, that’s going out and killing a lion with a spear and then undergoing scarification....
 
I think you may have missed the part about the Dinka manhood test....

To drink a big bottle of moonshine and then fuck a lion and kill a girl? Or something, hard to remember with all that moonshine.

Still I would not have guessed the biggest problem in places that accept foreigners would be explaining the rules to South Sudanese guys. Dinka or not.
 
Thanks, that was a really interesting read. I'd be quite keen to talk over some of the specific points with the author, quite a bit to parse.
 
Thanks for posting and translating the articles, I shall read the originals at another time.

For the language barrier, I can totally understand that. I remember a hoteheru girl saying my 2 hours session with her was un-usually long as most of her customers, at least for her foreigner customers, tend to go for the minimum 60 minutes sessions to get it done and what not, especially if you don't really speak the language, you just want the service and none of the chitchats. There are also foreigner customers playing dumb and pushing/trying to get more out of hoteheru and deriheru services against the girls' wishes so just one time would be enough to make the girls permanently rejecting foreigner customers. That's why being able to speak even somewhat broken Japanese is good. The girls would relax and you probably get to have a more enjoyable experience, of course that's always YMMV.
 
Thanks for posting and translating the articles, I shall read the originals at another time.

For the language barrier, I can totally understand that. I remember a hoteheru girl saying my 2 hours session with her was un-usually long as most of her customers, at least for her foreigner customers, tend to go for the minimum 60 minutes sessions to get it done and what not, especially if you don't really speak the language, you just want the service and none of the chitchats. There are also foreigner customers playing dumb and pushing/trying to get more out of hoteheru and deriheru services against the girls' wishes so just one time would be enough to make the girls permanently rejecting foreigner customers. That's why being able to speak even somewhat broken Japanese is good. The girls would relax and you probably get to have a more enjoyable experience, of course that's always YMMV.
I probably mentioned this before on TAG, but it never hurts to emphasize this point.

Back in the 1990s, when there were far fewer Gaijin Friendly venues, several girls expressed the same sentiment: they felt uncomfortable during “silent sessions” with customers who can’t speak Japanese.

That definitely impacts Session Chemistry.
 
Silence can drive people insane.

Being stuck in a tiny room, with a total stranger, in near complete silence for an hour or more...yeah, I can see how that can be mentally exhausting.

This problem isn't unique to foreigners that can't speak Japanese, it happens with some Japanese customers too.

I was reading a post titled "I can't stand this! I hate it! Types of customer fuzoku ladies dislike/have trouble dealing with", and the first type listed is "customers that don't talk".
From the article (emphasis hers):

"For the most part, otakus, poor talker, being too nervous, unfriendly, etc. these types are OK.
What's most troubling is the type that you can't even hold a basic conversation with.
Before/during the session, you can't find out things like what play they don't like, what turns them on and other things that let you know how to work with them.
[skipping a bit down the article...]
You can't have a great session at all like that! It's twice as tiring as a normal session!"

So even if they can handle the silence, it still makes it hard for them to do their job (to give you a good time) properly.

I think that's the article that made me go "hey...isn't that exactly like a foreign customer that can't speak Japanese?", and so I looked for articles related to foreigners and found the article in the OP.

There are several other articles there that give tips on communicating with the customers, and how to handles ones that don't talk much, or at all. If she had to write a article about it every few months, I'm guessing it's a pretty big issue that many fuzoku ladies have want help with.
 
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Silence can drive people insane.

Being stuck in a tiny room, with a total stranger, in near complete silence for an hour or more...yeah, I can see how that can be mentally exhausting.

This problem isn't unique to foreigners that can't speak Japanese, it happens with some Japanese customers too.

I was reading a post titled "I can't stand this! I hate it! Types of customer fuzoku ladies dislike/have trouble dealing with", and the first type listed is "customers that don't talk".
From the article (emphasis hers):

"For the most part, otakus, poor talker, being too nervous, unfriendly, etc. these types are OK.
What's most troubling is the type that you can't even hold a basic conversation with.
Before/during the session, you can't find out things like what play they don't like, what turns them on and other things that let you know how to work with them.
[skipping a bit down the article...]
You can't have a great session at all like that! It's twice as tiring as a normal session!"

So even if they can handle the silence, it still makes it hard for them to do their job (to give you a good time) properly.

I think that's the article that made me go "hey...isn't that exactly like a foreign customer that can't speak Japanese?", and so I looked for articles related to foreigners and found the article in the OP.

There are several other articles there that give tips on communicating with the customers, and how to handles ones that don't talk much, or at all. If she had to write a article about it every few months, I'm guessing it's a pretty big issue that many fuzoku ladies have want help with.
Well, I have always tried to converse - except in those extremely rare situations where the J-Girl was disinterested in conversation.

At Soaplands and Fashion Health Clubs, J-Girls opened up to me about their various interests - including their other careers (acting, modeling, interior decorating).
 
Good article and thanks for sharing. It's taken me several passes to read it all. It's good to see both sides of the argument for whether or not more shops should accept gaijin. Obviously I'm all for it but I do see the issues that cause business to be resistant or slow to be accepting of the idea. I don't think the Olympics is going to cure the issue at all. In fact, I'm worried (maybe needlessly) that having a huge amount of dipshit foreigners and athletes pulling shenanigans is going to harden the stance that some shops have against accepting gaijin.

Worse yet, if an incident hits the international media that Japan essentially has legal prostitution, it could cause major controversy as the Japanese government does not want to be embarrassed.
 
Well, I have always tried to converse - except in those extremely rare situations where the J-Girl was disinterested in conversation.

At Soaplands and Fashion Health Clubs, J-Girls opened up to me about their various interests - including their other careers (acting, modeling, interior decorating).

Same here, though my starting point was honestly mainly to have a better experience for myself. *I* can't stand the awkward silence myself, I like chatting with them to get a bit of that intimate GFE feeling, and occasionally finding that we share a common interest and seeing her genuinely interested in talking about it make me feel good.


Good article and thanks for sharing. It's taken me several passes to read it all. It's good to see both sides of the argument for whether or not more shops should accept gaijin. Obviously I'm all for it but I do see the issues that cause business to be resistant or slow to be accepting of the idea. I don't think the Olympics is going to cure the issue at all. In fact, I'm worried (maybe needlessly) that having a huge amount of dipshit foreigners and athletes pulling shenanigans is going to harden the stance that some shops have against accepting gaijin.

Worse yet, if an incident hits the international media that Japan essentially has legal prostitution, it could cause major controversy as the Japanese government does not want to be embarrassed.

I think if you look at previous Olympics your fears are not unfounded, it has happened to some degree with all of them. I've heard many Japanese on the net already voicing their disdain of the Tokyo Olympics, from the "I don't care about the Olympics, it doesn't make improve my life one bit, why is the government wasting my tax money on this?" to "We'll be overrun by a bunch of gaijins, look at those X race/nationalities trouble makers we have already, there'll be a flood of them!".

AV and fuzoku has always been scorned by some citizens/politicians/institutions, the Olympics just give them another reason/excuse to try and tighten the regulations further. Not sure about the fuzoku side since I've never followed news on it, but I know the AV side already had met it's share of troubles because of this (some of which was their own stupid fault really) in the last few years. Hopefully this fire doesn't reduce everything into a smoldering mess, instead it'll burn off some of the weeds and leave the industry with a more healthy fertile ground to grow on.

Edit: by the way, this article is a fuzoku-jo's advice to other fuzoku-jos, on whether or not they should choose to accept foreign customers. It's not so much directed at shops, but some points hold true nonetheless. I'd be interested in the management side's views on this, but I think they're unlikely to want to talk about this in the open.
 
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I think if you look at previous Olympics your fears are not unfounded, it has happened to some degree with all of them. I've heard many Japanese on the net already voicing their disdain of the Tokyo Olympics, from the "I don't care about the Olympics, it doesn't make improve my life one bit, why is the government wasting my tax money on this?" to "We'll be overrun by a bunch of gaijins, look at those X race/nationalities trouble makers we have already, there'll be a flood of them!".

AV and fuzoku has always been scorned by some citizens/politicians/institutions, the Olympics just give them another reason/excuse to try and tighten the regulations further. Not sure about the fuzoku side since I've never followed news on it, but I know the AV side already had met it's share of troubles because of this (some of which was their own stupid fault really) in the last few years. Hopefully this fire doesn't reduce everything into a smoldering mess, instead it'll burn off some of the weeds and leave the industry with a more healthy fertile ground to grow on.

Edit: by the way, this article is a fuzoku-jo's advice to other fuzoku-jos, on whether or not they should choose to accept foreign customers. It's not so much directed at shops, but some points hold true nonetheless. I'd be interested in the management side's views on this, but I think they're unlikely to want to talk about this in the open.

I would hate for the opponents of the adult industry to use any incidents as a way to expose the sex industry in Japan and shame the government into tightening controls. I know it's not exactly a secret but the everyday average person outside Japan doesn't know about the status of P4P there. I'd rather this not trigger a major shift in the status quo.
 
At Soaplands and Fashion Health Clubs, J-Girls opened up to me about their various interests - including their other careers (acting, modeling, interior decorating).
I'm very lucky that the woman I go to regularly at one particular health is not only probably the near ultimate match for me at her job but also she and I talk about various things before and after the session. I don't have to say too much at all during simply because she knows what I like by now but early on I definitely made a point to communicate more during.