Questions to be Answered

Questions to be Answered

A middle age Japanese office worker answers to questions about Japan from foreigners

It is your freedom to try out any of the listing articles in your daily life. ?Author does NOT care how much it would be painful for you.
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Americans and friendly forces are like caddies and weekend folf players looking for a lost ball in desert. So much wild, though. And then did you find any ABC balls there?

Most readers of this blog always ask me about Konyoku bath, which both male and female bath together. I'm not sure what is the matter doing so, but yes you may have to do it if it is required.

konyoku bath with big storage

You might have some illusions that there may be young female Japanese might come in, but in most case, you won't be so lucky. Once I experienced some young female travellers came in a bath I was enjoying, but I don't think it was a bright shining memory for myself.


If you want to try some chances near Tokyo, you might visit Akaishi Onsen in Yamanashi (be careful, there is another Akaishi Onsen in Shizuoka).


Something to eat. Japanese homes are small and thus photo books (Such as the Photo History: 100 Years of Chicago, who cares) or any other materials especially from US won't be fitted in their small houses. Cloths are not very good, too, because American tastes are poor. Food is good, because it can be consumed, and even if taste is bad, Japanese can give it to their dogs or cats.

If you are living in Tokyo, the major places to meet with Geisha would be Akasaka, Mukoujima, and Fukagawa. Playing with Geisha would be such an expensive spending you have never experienced.


Reasonable fee Geisha area near Tokyo would be Izu-Nagaoka, near Numazu. All Okiya in Izu, a place Geisha parks, are located in Izu-Nagaoka, so you can save their transportation costs if you stay in Izu-Nagaoka.


When you call Geisha to your hotel room, it must be in a Japanese style. Geisha will NEVER come to the western type hotel room. Preferably, you might need to stay a Hanare, a stand alone room so that you can enjoy freely, not worrying about noise you make.


When you ask for Geisha in your hotel, tell a clerk that you need Geisha (one on one basis), not a companion girl. You need to make sure this. And if you have enough money, also ask for Hako, a Shamisen player, so that you can enjoy traditional Japanese ozashiki plays with Geisha. To fully enjoy ozashiki plays, you may need at least 300,000 yen per person.


So what is ozashiki play? You might think it would be having sexual intercourse with Geisha, but it's wrong. Ozashiki plays are games using bodies, but you will never use your penus at any time.


If you need a further information about Geisha plays, you can email me for lectures in locations.



People say wabi-sabi is the Japanese spirit, but it dosen't explain much of it. I think they just want to tell you wabi-sabi would be a Japanese identity. Theoretically, wabi means the poor and sabi is the green thing in and out of sushi. So it is a poor taste green mustard in reality.


So why is a poor taste green mustard the spirit of Japan? Well, I want to know why, too.


In the tea celemony schools, however, wabi is a presence of yourself, and sabi is just being there. You are OK, living, enjoying, thinking many things, so just being there to exist. What a small world but you are in the universe of yourself at the same time. If you can feel that way and enjoy distance with other things, you might feel even a small ugly rock beside you as a big fancy enjoyment. That's the world of wabi-sabi.


Please forget about the green mustard.

Those American ships are in trouble going back. They have been found floating around Japan, and those crew don't remember where they came from and how they can come home. So the Japanese Government opened Yokosuka Missing Navy Ship Re-Education Center in 1976, educating and training them to learn how to go home. Civil volunteers outside the center, usually having big red flags, are shouting at those ships and the crew, helping them to understand this is not their home. The center has successfully made ships and crews returning home so far, and over 300 Navy command ships and boats successfully returned to San Diego. However, even big ships like carriers are still arriving to the center against our effort. The Japanese government thinks it would be almost impossible to decrease the number of lost ships.