Just wanting to clarify to everyone that the US$1800 per night earnings potential is essentially based on a 12 hour workday ... with the first 4 hours spent getting ready for the "date" and going on the "date", and then going to the club to work the rest of the night i.e. another 8 hours. While 'dating' is not absolutely mandatory, it will have a MAJOR effect on your earnings potential both because of the lost income from your customer and because of lost income by not collecting "date bonuses" paid by the clubs.That's about right. To convert yen to US$, 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.
When dancers who don't live in Japan include airfare and 'apartment' expenses into their employment contract, this really amounts to a 'cash advance' on later earnings in Japanese clubs. Thus if you do not work out the full duration of your contract to the satisfaction of the clubowner, you can and will get stuck picking up part of the tab for these expenses yourself. Some clubs withhold all or part of a dancer's weekly "pay" until she leaves Japan, and if she has not fulfilled her contract she will not receive the withheld weekly "pay" - which will be used instead to defray the cost of her advance purchase plane tickets and her 'apartment'.



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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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