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    Hey there girls,
    I just wanted to know if any of you have any advice or suggestions about dancing in Tokyo. I dance in Australia at a classy club and I've only been in the business for 6 weeks. I'm doing well but it is slow at the momment and a lot of the girls say that I could be earning 'top money' due to my looks but I'm still learning as my club relies on a lot of talking and hosting, not just stripping, which can be a bumber. I have heard that in Tokyo you have to allow a bit of touching and even go out to dinner and socialize with the clients. Is that true at all clubs? Also I'm really in the business for financial reasons only and want to make a lot of money fast to pay for a business I want. Is the money there really that good? I've heard $2,000+ a night! Anyway any advice would be great.
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    I lived in Japan for a year and I can confirm that Dancers in that part of the world can make a huge amount of money. However, it is a different culture. Today Men from Japan do respect Women but in a different sense of what Westerners consider to be respect of Women. The men there will expect you to socialize much more with them as in psuedo Geisha Girl type relationship. That is not always sexual but they would want the Women to be present during business dealings and you will often be seen as a item that shows the mans power.

    When, I was in Japan a lot of the Women who dance in clubs are not Japaneese Women. The Asian Dancers usually are from Korea, Philippines, Thailand and China. There are a lot of Russian and some Austrailian and American as well as some European Women Dancing.

    There seems to be a good $$$ pontential for many Russian Women as to many of the Japaneese Men they seem to be the easiest to accept the Culture shock among Western Women.

    Problem is that many of the Clubs have some kind of dealings with the Mafia. (Yukuza) and there is a possibility of getting the dancer involved in some kind of criminal activity.


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    The best person to ask about this would be VegasVixen...if I am not mistaken, she has just come back from dancing in Japan...also Mermaid is an Aussie who will be making the trip in a few weeks. Hopefully either of them will jump on and see the topic.

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    Hi Ness. I have just left Japan after working in several clubs in Tokyo. I'm sure I can answer whatever you need to know.

    It is still possible to make a huge amount of money, despite the state of the Japanese economy. However it is also possible that you will make very little, so don't get too excited yet.

    All the clubs in Tokyo that I know of allow two-way contact between customer and dancers - customers are permitted to touch you anywhere on your body except where your g-string covers. It is a bit gross at first but I'm sure you can get used it for 7,000 yen each time.

    It is common to have to go out for dinner before the club opens, with customers, and then bring them into the club, there are various bonus systems for this. It is a good thing to do on weeknights when you can't rely on getting dances from new customers. But you don't HAVE to and no-one is going to make you if you don't want to. I always gave my bf the customer's name, contact details, and where we would be, in case of any mishap, and nothing bad ever happened to me.

    Re Sgt Johnny's comments - yes, I think the clubs are all owned by the yakuza. I didn't let that worry me too much.
    The top clubs in Tokyo do not have dancers from other Asian countries. I worked at four places in total and did not encounter one. The Asian girls work at different kinds of clubs from the ones Ness is likely to work in. There ARE a lot of Russian and East European dancers, and they do do very well, as I think they work harder.

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    I would love to go to Tokyo. How did any of you girls get in to this, getting info on it, etc.?

    So they are allowed ONLY to touch your bare breasts & ass? Do you have to be totally naked? I would only want to topless.

    Also, going out with them to dinner sounds a little risky. Do they at least do a background check up? And lets say if you do go to dinner with them, do they expect more than dinner?

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    Vyanka, you should check out http://www.worldagency.tv/. This is the agency which I worked through. There is also http://www.danceinjapan.com, but I don't think this agency is as good. Both agencies will pay your airfare (although possibly that has changed in the last few months). I think it is not possible to go to Japan and find work directly with the clubs, you will have to go through an agency.

    Yes, the customers are only allowed to touch your boobs and ass. Don't worry, you keep your g-string on.

    As for going to dinner with customers, I must repeat you don't HAVE to. The club does not keep track of who you are with and when. It is up to you to contact the club everyday before your shift, when you are bringing a customer in and say you'll be coming in late, or are bringing someone. If you were to get abducted and not show up to your shift, it would probably not be noticed until it was too late.

    The customers do not expect more than dinner if you go for dinner with them. Hostess clubs (the modern equivalent of geisha?) are a big part of Japanese culture - just about any male over the age of 20 will have been to one at least once - and going for dinner with customers before the hostess club opens is how the system works. You may have problems with western customers you go for dinner with only, I'd say, as they may not understand what it is all about.

    I did hear a couple of funny stories though. One Australian girl I knew, turned up at whatever place she'd arranged to meet her customer, and he took her by taxi directly to a love hotel!!! The same girl was also taken to McDonalds!!!!! as one of her dinner dates.....

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    Thank you for the information Kitty-chan. I appreciate it.

    I will definately check the agency out when I get a chance.

    And thank God the dates aren't mandatory, lol. That last story was funny, McDonald's. LOL

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kitty-chan link=board=27;threadid=12823;start=msg165918#msg16 5918 date=1093721280
    1 - As for going to dinner with customers, I must repeat you don't HAVE to. The club does not keep track of who you are with and when. It is up to you to contact the club everyday before your shift, when you are bringing a customer in and say you'll be coming in late, or are bringing someone.

    2 - If you were to get abducted and not show up to your shift, it would probably not be noticed until it was too late.

    3 - The customers do not expect more than dinner if you go for dinner with them. Hostess clubs (the modern equivalent of geisha?) are a big part of Japanese culture - just about any male over the age of 20 will have been to one at least once - and going for dinner with customers before the hostess club opens is how the system works. You may have problems with western customers you go for dinner with only, I'd say, as they may not understand what it is all about.
    1 - A dinner date with a customer is called a "dohan", as Kitty-chan knows I am sure...but a useful word to have in your vocabulary if you dance there. (Literally it just means something like "companion", I believe.) I have heard from dancers in Tokyo that they get a bonus for doing more than 2 (or some number) of dohans per week and get fined for doing less; I think it was at Wild West several years ago (so it could have changed, and I am not even sure which club). The clubs encourage dohans because the customer is expected to accompany the dancer back to the club (where she is allowed to arrive later than normal following a dohan) and to pay the intial entrance fee (which can be in the 5000-10,000 yen range, so not such a small amount) to spend some time there with her or other dancers.

    2 - It appears to me that there is very little risk associated with dohans since none of the dancers with extensive experience in Tokyo nor any of the clubs ever seemed to exercise any caution or display any apprehension about them. I infer that there is trouble only extremely rarely, and it is worth keeping in mind that violent crime levels in Japan (especially if you exclude domestic violence and gang warfare) are miniscule compared to just about any Western country. You are probably safer on a dohan with a customer you've only met once in Japan than you are going home after work in almost any other place you have ever worked.

    3 - That is exactly right. The Japanese men will understand the system perfectly in all liklihood and will expect nothing more of you than being charming company and "eye candy" on their arm, so to speak. Foreigners, who will make up a significant share of your customers, especially in the Roppongi area clubs where a lot of gaijin hang out, may or may not understand the system. A dancer once told me that guys from southern Europe, the Mid-East, India (and maybe some other areas I have forgotten) often assume that you are going to have sex with them if it is their first dohan and may be angry when they find out otherwise. She said that she made a policy of explaining the deal explicitly in the club before agreeing to meet them for a dohan if she suspected that they had "unrealistic expectations" of her.

    Finally, it is my experience as a customer that different dancers "use" dohans in different ways and themselves have quite different expectations of what I, as a customer, am looking for. Below is a copy of a question and answer re this topic that I exchanged with another dancer interested in working in Japan earlier this year.

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    Did you find that most customers when on a dohan with a dancer, would tip her or want to go shopping, etc. ?

    Again, I don't know anything at all about what happens with different customers...only what happened to me with different dancers: It varied a lot. Some dancers just wanted a fairly quick, but not necessarily cheap, meal near the club right before their shift started and then to go directly there. My guess is that they were not real comfortable with a doing dohans and were just trying to satisfy the club minimum or collect the dohan bonus with minimal time and effort. Others seemed very interested in developing me into some sort of temporary "Sugar Daddy" who would buy them presents, take them shopping, "contribute" to their living expenses and so forth. Still others treated it as an opportunity for prostitution and propositioned me in a very straightforward manner.Â

    I should add that I always told dancers how much longer I would be in Tokyo, typically 2-3 weeks or less, so this may have affected their idea of what sort of connection with me it would be practical to develop.
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    More or less, about how much money does someone bring back home in about a month or two? Curious.

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    I've been to japan twice. The touching is up to you. and $2000 a night well, honestly you'd have to work your ass off to get that. And yes you have to go out with the customers if you want regular customers, some clubs actually get a fee for a customer taking you out so they encourage it. I loved it there. I never worked in tokyo but have been there, and actually my old boss and a friend has opened up 2 new clubs in roppongi. It's the party town where all the foreigners are, personally for me I have no interest going to japan to dance for westerners I'd just stay here. Go you should have fun, go thru an agent if you can try and find a trustworthy one, they are there. my last one I used was bob batwin he was ok but I know there are better ones. Good luck.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vyanka link=board=27;threadid=12823;start=msg166038#msg16 6038 date=1093733139
    More or less, about how much money does someone bring back home in about a month or two? Curious.
    depends if you go thru an agent they normally pay your airfair and accomadation, you pay back the airfair while you are there and they give it back to you at the end. Also sometimes you have to pay a agent fee each week. how much you bring back depends on how much of a good saver you are
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    Dude, it's not her "world" it's her job. It's not some sort of Pavlovian trance that dancers go into when they smell money, it's simply how they make a living.

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    i thought i'd better mention that things have changed in the last few months.

    i am referring to the roppongi clubs here. also, i am not american or familiar with US dollars so pls check how much yen is worth in your currency.

    for a long time in the past, agencies were paying girls' airfares, and accommodation, but tip-out in the clubs was pretty high, and in some clubs your drink-back money (you usually get 500 yen back for each drink customers buy you) went towards the deposit on your apartment.

    now, as of june, tip-out has been cut to a flat 6,000 yen per night, regardless of how many dances (bargain!), but the agencies are now charging for accommodation (about 80,000 per month), and i believe you have to pay back the airfare if you leave within a certain time.

    i did really well out of this as i was already resident in japan when i started dancing (i used to be an elementary school teacher!!), and so did not need their grotty accommodation or airfares, but benefited from the low tip-out. hooray!

    in reference to dohan (paid dates), i used to aim to go on them about twice a week. i found customers usually pay around 40,000 to 50,000 yen on dinner (i didn't waste my time on younger customers), which is a good way to sample top cuisine. i was getting kind of sick of shabu-shabu with kobe beef, top end sushi, lobster, and champagne after a while though. i also got lots of great designer gifts by going shopping with customers before dinner.

    now i am temporarily in the UK doing a 9 to 5 office job clad in donna karan or something in the office, and i don't have any non-expensive clothes to wear! it's strange!

    lastly, it IS entirely possible to make 200,000 yen (i think that is a about 2000 dollars?) every night, my bf's ex (in 7th heaven) was making that, but i would say only about 10-15% of dancers manage this. i personally didn't hit the 200,000 yen mark once (my target was 50,000 yen a day, more on weekends), but then i am not a "career" stripper.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kitty-chan link=board=27;threadid=12823;start=msg166202#msg16 6202 date=1093766886
    lastly, it IS entirely possible to make 200,000 yen (i think that is a about 2000 dollars?) every night,
    That's about right. To convert yen to US$, you get it very roughly right by dividing by 100. In recent years, this gives 10 to 20 percent too much (in dollars). At the moment, about 10%. So, you get it closer by dividing by 100 and then subtracting 10%, so 200,000 yen is about US$1800 at the moment.

    Re Tokyo earning potential, it is a good idea to keep in mind that it is an expensive city in general and an easy place to spend a lot of money. Quite a few dancers in Tokyo have told me that they were earning more than they ever had before but also spending it almost as fast. So, in addition to working hard, you have to control your shopping/spending impulses if you want to save a lot of money while working in Japan, I guess.

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    that's true! VERY hard to hold on to your money in Tokyo. i dread to think of the literally millions of yen (over a four year period) i wasted on karaoke, drinking, clothes and shoes that fell apart after 2 months.

    for some reason, if the money in your hand is yen, you don't value it as much as you would your home currency. i am now temporarily in the UK, and i have just worked out that the amount of money i spent every day in tokyo, i spend in around two weeks, and that is not taking rent into account.

    so if anyone does go to tokyo, be warned! soooooo many cute, gorgeous, wonderful shops! stay out of 'em if you want to save!

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    Thanks Kittie, I have been thinking about going over there and dancing for a little while myself. Are there any "cons" besides the shopping thing that I might have to worry about?

    And how long has it been since you worked there?

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    I went to Tokyo to visit two years ago and love the place. The only way I&#039;d dance there is if my SO could come with me, since they prefer to have their dancers there for 3 months at a time typically. Is it possible to rent a place for 3 months? I know most landlords don&#039;t want to rent to gaijin, and rents can be outrageous, even with their slightly depressed economy.

    I&#039;m curious as to how the language barrier comes into play. I&#039;m sure part of your income there is based on "working hard" but that usually involves good hustling skills, which tends to involve some level of conversational acumen.

    I&#039;ve never done well with Asian customers, and I&#039;m sure there are girls that are non-Barbie types that can do well, but it seems to be the preferred look among Japanese men. I also know the clubs like their dancers very slender. That&#039;s not an issue for me, fortunately, but if you saw my face you&#039;d know I just wouldn&#039;t look right blonde.

    Tokyo&#039;s an amazing city and I think everyone should see it at least once in their lives. Dancing there might not be the best way, since the vast majority of clubs require at least five, often six days of work a week from their dancers.
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    Any non-Asian type can do well in Japan.Since I&#039;m Chinese,I&#039;m sh*t out of luck.LOL!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by onlythebest link=board=27;threadid=12823;start=msg166718#msg16 6718 date=1093854493
    Any non-Asian type can do well in Japan.Since I&#039;m Chinese,I&#039;m sh*t out of luck.LOL!!!
    This is one of my concerns, since even though I&#039;m Latina, I often get mistaken for part Asian. It doesn&#039;t offend me at all; though it was a bit weird when I visited Japan. I got stared at A LOT there, I think because the Japanese like people and things to be easily identifiable and put into neat little confining categories. I assumed it was because they couldn&#039;t figure out my ethnic background.

    Not to sound stuck up, but I&#039;m kinda used to being stared at, just not like that. The looks were more quizzical and confounded in Japan.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kitty-chan link=board=27;threadid=12823;start=msg166679#msg16 6679 date=1093850813
    VERY hard to hold on to your money in Tokyo. i dread to think of the literally millions of yen (over a four year period) i wasted on karaoke, drinking, clothes and shoes that fell apart after 2 months.

    for some reason, if the money in your hand is yen, you don&#039;t value it as much as you would your home currency.
    If it is any consolation, guys have it even worse.

    Not only can we spend money on shopping and all the other things Kitty-chan mentions, but there is also a vast, almost unimaginably extensive and highly diversified "adult entertainment" industry which caters to men out on the town and which can drain the yen out of your wallet incredibly fast. Strip clubs, employing gaijin dancers or otherwise, are only a minute part of it all. The other options range all the way from very sedate hostess clubs (where the ladies simply act as your flirty, charming and beautiful companion...with little or no contact...for an hourly fee) to simple and straightforward prostitution but with countless gradations, specializations/fetishes and variations in between.

    It has to be seen to be believed, but it is deadly expensive. You don&#039;t even have to party very hard to spend a couple of thousand US$ per night on Tokyo commercial nightlife.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NinaDaisy link=board=27;threadid=12823;start=msg166716#msg16 6716 date=1093854384
    1 - Is it possible to rent a place for 3 months? I know most landlords don&#039;t want to rent to gaijin, and rents can be outrageous, even with their slightly depressed economy.

    2 - I&#039;m curious as to how the language barrier comes into play. I&#039;m sure part of your income there is based on "working hard" but that usually involves good hustling skills, which tends to involve some level of conversational acumen.

    3 - I&#039;ve never done well with Asian customers, and I&#039;m sure there are girls that are non-Barbie types that can do well, but it seems to be the preferred look among Japanese men.

    4 - Tokyo&#039;s an amazing city and I think everyone should see it at least once in their lives.

    5 - Dancing there might not be the best way, since the vast majority of clubs require at least five, often six days of work a week from their dancers.
    1 - It probably would not be practical to rent an appartment for 3 months. They often charge a NON-REFUNDABLE 3-5 MONTHS RENT ( :o ) as an initial "key fee" before you move in, and rents are very high. Plus they are usually unfurnished...not even basic appliances. That is why the clubs provide dancers with rooms, sort of dorms for strippers I guess, in places they maintain permanently, but they are very small and not too nice I hear, and I&#039;d be very surprised if an SO could stay there with you. There are "gaijin houses", essentially places/houses in which a few to several gaijin share the rent on a sublet basis...lots of turn over of the occupants typically. It might be hard to find one without some friend/contact in Japan, ideally in the expat community there. There are also things called "weekly mansions" which are a bit like a hotel providing a furnished room with facilities (including cooking) on a weekly or monthly basis...not sure about the costs though, probably not that cheap. I think that they are used a lot by Japanese business men on extended travel away from home.

    2 - Most dancers I have met working in the gaijin strip clubs in Tokyo speak no Japanese or only a little they have picked up while working there. It doesn&#039;t seem to reduce their ability to make money. My guess is that the customers self-select for either being able to speak English (maybe only a little bit, though) themselves or for not caring about talking to the dancer anyway. The club will have bilingual staff who can translate if there is some unusual problem or misunderstanding.

    3 - Japanese men do seem to have a big-breasted-blonde fetish in many cases, at least the ones that patronize gaijin strip clubs, but basically they are often just fascinated by an exotic looking (to their eyes) woman, and as far as I can tell, women of many different appearances make money dancing in Tokyo. Japan is a pretty racist place in general though, and you are very likely to run into it in one or more forms if you live there, even if it doesn&#039;t affect your dancing income much.

    4 - DITTO! Great advice. I have traveled the world pretty extensively, and there is really no place like it in my opinion.

    5 - Very true. Most of the dancers I have met in Tokyo have seen little of the city or country. They often work long hours every day except Sunday and then need their one day off to recuperate, catch up on sleep, get practical chores done and so forth. If you go to dance and want to see the country/city too, I&#039;d suggest that you stop dancing for a week or a few at the end of your stay and devote some time to touring around, hanging out and so forth.

    -Ww
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    As the Truth eternally reveals itself,
    This very place is the Lotus Land of Purity,
    This very body is the Body of the Buddha."
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    This happened to my friend on last Friday, she is working in this Gaijin strip club in Tokyo. (I would just say she isnt Japanese) and did 5 lapdances (8000 yen x5= 40,000 yen=$350) for this customer. but in the end, this customer refused to pay for the dances! what a ###%


    The club couldnt report this to police since Lapdancing is illegal in Japan (did you know that?? I didnt know at all) also there are girls working without work permit in the club. Pity my friend she totally wasted her
    time with this customer.

    since one dance(4minutes long) is 7,000 yen or 8,000 (between $65 to $75) yen is the noramal price in Tokyo, sometimes you really have to work hard to get just sake one dance. of course often you will meet customers who keep buyng many dances though.

    I have seen the girls who is short and slim , blonds were doing very good in Tokyo. Also Russian girls are doing good, they speak good Japnese.


    Hope you are doing great in Tokyo. Tokyo is worth to visit anyway,
    have fun!! (Did you watch the movie "Lost in translation"?


    KateD xx

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    Quote Originally Posted by kateD link=board=27;threadid=12823;start=msg167127#msg16 7127 date=1093901388
    Lapdancing is illegal in Japan (did you know that?? I didnt know at all)
    Who told you/her that? It would surprise me, but anyway, even if it is true, the law is not enforced at all...not even slightly, as far as I can tell.

    Lost in Translation is a terrific movie in several respects, including getting a feel for what it is like to be a foreign visitor in Tokyo; they really nailed it, imo.

    -Ww

    PS - Here are the rules; maybe lapdances are considered "unbehavior"!
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    This very place is the Lotus Land of Purity,
    This very body is the Body of the Buddha."
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    It did really surprise me ,too. the manger of the club told her (my friend) that lapdance is illegal in Japan. thats why they released this customer without charging of 40,000 yen - $350! this my friend has a work permit so there is nothing to worried to her but the club.


    This club may not have connection/deal with local police perharps. You know How-thing$-Work. ..


    Lost in translation was totally bollox but I like Scarlett Johonson. some ppl considered that movie is a bit racist..(you think so?)
    oh, when I came back from England, I just kept eating Japanese food and lost 9lbs/4Kg in 2 month! no work out. and I still keep that. Japanese food rocks!


    and wow, those Chinese symbols look very complicated! "don not be naked" I know you want to see! lol

    Kate x

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    Quote Originally Posted by kateD link=board=27;threadid=12823;start=msg167225#msg16 7225 date=1093909523
    1 - It did really surprise me ,too. the manger of the club told her (my friend) that lapdance is illegal in Japan. thats why they released this customer without charging of 40,000 yen - $350! this my friend has a work permit so there is nothing to worried to her but the club. This club may not have connection/deal with local police perharps. You know How-thing$-Work. ..

    2 - I like Scarlett Johonson.

    3 - some ppl considered that movie is a bit racist..(you think so?)

    4 - oh, when I came back from England, I just kept eating Japanese food and lost 9lbs/4Kg in 2 month! no work out. and I still keep that. Japanese food rocks!

    5 - "do not be naked" I know you want to see! lol
    1 - Yeah, maybe the club is not on good terms with the local cops, but I also think it is a good possibility that the manager was just BSing your friend because he didn&#039;t care that she got cheated and didn&#039;t want to create a scene in the club by having the cops come in. Avoiding making any kind of unpleasant situation (disturbing people&#039;s "wa") is a much more major consideration in Japan than in Western cultures. Or maybe the deadbeat customer was a friend of the manager&#039;s or something. Anyway, I am not sure I believe that lapdances are against the law there.

    2 - Me too! See
    http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/...ppola,%20Sofia
    I think that both these ladies are very talented and extremely hot...would love to see them break rule #1 above!

    3 - No, I didn&#039;t think so. It poked a bit of fun at the Japanese, but it was a comedy and poked at least as much fun at other things and groups, including cliche&#039;d Hollywood types such as the girl&#039;s photographer husband or the starlet staying in the same hotel and so forth.

    4 - That happens to me too when I am there a while. I never watch my weight or pay any attention to my diet, just eat whatever I want, but in Japan I steadily lose weight.

    5 - Wow, how did you know?? It is like you can read my mind!

    -Ww
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    As the Truth eternally reveals itself,
    This very place is the Lotus Land of Purity,
    This very body is the Body of the Buddha."
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