Sick Otaku

At first glance, it looks like an innocent posting on the Internet about a teen crush, with red hearts framing the letters. But the message makes clear what is being offered: “Anyone who can give me a lot of money, please e-mail me. I am 16 years old and cute and I charge 30,000 yen” (about US$260).

The Internet in Japan is littered with dating sites that serve as little more than online bulletin boards where sexual services are offered, and accepted, for a fee. And it is under-age girls, says the National Police Agency (NPA), who are the most sought after.

This trend is accompanied by growing crime - several teenage girls have been killed after meeting men who answered their messages, and among the cases documented by the police are those of extortion and sexual abuse. The police figures, released last month, show that of the 1,731 crimes related to the Internet last year, 787 involved young girls.

The dangers have done little to curb the websites - accessible on the Internet and through mobile phones - and the services.

The number of crimes involving matchmaking websites soared in 2002 to twice the number in the previous year, and has pushed the police to consider a new law that would hold minors responsible for soliciting sex and ban mobile-phone users under 18 years old from using the online services.

The new law was among the recommendations suggested by a panel - comprising law experts, academics and police officials - that was set up last October in an effort to tackle a problem threatening to spiral out of control.

Some girls are only 14, while others are employed by dating websites and are paid according to the number of clients they have.

“The law intends to make a minor legally responsible for her actions when using the Internet to offer her sexual services,” said an NPA spokesman. “The law is aimed at protecting them.”

The police also said that in an interim review on the proposed law, more than 80 percent of public opinion supported the regulation of dating sites.

Hirotsugi Shimoda, a Gumma University professor who supports Internet use by children, explained: “Everyone should be equal on the Internet, regardless of age or gender.” He believes that young females, while responsible for luring men, must also be protected through education and laws and added that in the end, “The burden of responsibility lies with parents.”

Shimoda’s view - that children must be held responsible - is a popular one. Many experts now think that children in Japan are too protected and must be taught to take responsibility for their actions.

On the other hand, opponents of the proposed law point out that this approach will not address the wider social causes - such as the demand by men - that have led to the problem. Instead, some are calling for measures to develop education and more guidance to improve self-awareness among children.

“I am not surprised many girls sell sex,” said Noriko Moriya, a member of Lawyers for Victims of Child Prostitution. “They sell because there are so many men who want to pay for their services.”

Consumerist pressures play a role too - the police reports show that some girls under 18 told the police they offered sex so that they could buy expensive, brand-name fashion goods.

There are laws already in place that help the police crack down on men practicing enjo kosai, or compensated sex. In 1999, for example, the Tokyo metropolitan government passed an ordinance prohibiting adults from engaging in sex with minors under 18 years old. Violators face up to three years’ imprisonment or a fine up to 1 million yen (more than $8,500).

Moriya emphasized that her group is not against legal measures to protect young girls, but that new legislation must reflect the social context. “It is important that laws do not detract from the more important issue of making Japanese society supportive of teenage girls by providing them with a healthy environment,” she said. “Children must be taught before they are punished.”

In December, Lawyers for Victims of Child Prostitution presented a proposal to the Diet, Japan’s parliament, that advocated informative sex education in school. The proposal aims to make sex a subject of more open discussion in order to raise the self-esteem of women and make them aware of their sexual rights. This lack of both self-esteem, said the group, has contributed to the low awareness among girls on the dangers of offering sexual services to men.

The group also wants checks on the technology that has become the staple of teenage life in Japan. About 10 million users of NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s most popular mobile-phone brand, are minors while more than 60 percent of Internet users are under 30.

The police have in fact begun to apply pressure on Internet companies to draw up measures that would control matchmaking sites linked to teenage prostitution.

Furthermore, the proposed new bill also seeks to punish operators of websites that do not check the age of people posting messages. Those posting personal information leading to a sexual encounter involving a minor would, under the bill, attract a fine of up to 1 million yen.

But the bill is being resisted by the Japan Internet Providers Association, which represents more than 220 companies, and the Telecom Services Association. They argue that the regulations could work against sites that people use to simply communicate with others.

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“The US$84 billion Japanese apparel sector has faced declines of 10% ever since it bottomed out in 1998 due to the onslaught of cheap Chinese imports,” says Dario Murata, an analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston. “But a major portion of the market is growing, and that is teenage fashion.”

The joshikosei or teenage girl fashion market is indeed thriving. Style conscious ‘bubble nourished’ mothers, who are more than happy to develop and then satiate the desires of style conscious daughters, drive it.

The on-going trend to have smaller families is another major factor pushing industry growth, as children’s access to wallets increases. An only child can often receive pocket money from six adults - parents and two sets of grandparents, with girls more likely to spend on fashion than boys.

Put these demographic factors together with the recent rise of teenage cover girls such as hitomi, following on from the mid-nineties teen-pop craze led by idol Namie Amuro and girl bands such as Speed or Morning Musume, and voila, a star is born in the apparel firmament - the teen fashion industry.

Narumiya International is one company exclusively targeting the sector with various lines such as Angel Blue and Daisy Lovers to appeal to fashion aware teens.

“Actually our clothes are not cheap, compared with, say, Uniqlo - they are not our competitor in this market - although everything we design is also produced in China. What we are doing is creating detailed styles specifically to develop brands that have their own cache,” declares Hisataka Suzuki, chief of planning and management.

“This market is just starting to take off and it is different to the adult market in that it is not driven by fashion seasons. We don’t manufacture in huge volumes and our clothes are designed to have a high quality hand-made appeal, with lots of pockets and other unique details retailing from around US$130 for a pair of pants, US$50 for tops, to between US$300 and US$500 dollars for a jacket.”

Aim at increased sophistication and sudden fashion changes
Creating exclusive ranges is just one approach to hook into teen appeal, and a successful one according to Suzuki who is anticipating a 30% increase in sales in fiscal 2003.

Another approach is to ape the fashion trends of the early twenties age group, but in smaller sizes, cheaper and with enough flexibility to change styles as rapidly as a volatile mood swing.

A further road into the market is by expanding established fashion brands such as Paul Smith and Adidas sportswear designed by Yoji Yamamoto specifically for the teen market, embracing both boys and girls.

A senior designer from Ships, a select shop which has also begun targeting teens, indicated that the market is becoming more orientated towards disseminating ‘fashion’ into cheaper more accessible items for teens.

“I have noticed a preference for Japanese brands,” says Dan Doyle, Ships senior designer. “Probably because of the magazines that feature current pop idols who set the trends for what they wear.”
This in turn reflects the power of the stylists who choose clothes from various select shops in Tokyo to dress the stars in for fashion shoots.

Make friends with a top stylist and your brand is already popular, because teens will buy up every item that the idol is wearing within 24 hours of the magazine hitting the stands.

New 109 mega store to open in 2003

The Mecca in Tokyo where the full gamut of market-driven teen-fashion can be obtained is in Shibuya, at 109. It is the biggest one-stop, ten-floor, 200 boutique joshikosei fashion emporium second to none.

Clothes and accessories fly out the door. An estimated US$84 to US$126 million dollars worth of sales were clocked up in 2002, and a new mega-outlet is to open late in 2003 in Machida, one of Tokyo’s outer suburbs.

“Sales here are phenomenal,” says designer Noriko Koyama. “And trends are basically following the 20 plus age group. It is a real mix with top designers like Louis Vuitton, generic sportswear or vintage remakes selling equally well.

“The teens really follow the pop star styles and cover girls. For example, Ayami Hamazaki is a big trend setter on lots of television commercials, who in turn is emulating Western pop stars like Shakira and Britney Spears - it is a big circle, and it is constantly reinventing itself.”

Styles for girls this winter have centered on two main categories, pop girly or tomboy - but with a feminine remix, for example uniting a tight top with baggy combat pants.

“When I choose something I don’t want it to be too fashionable, I want to look individual,” offers 18-year-old Misato Kobayashi outside La Foret, another mid-teen-to-twenty-something shopping paradise in trendy Harajuku.

“What appeals to me most right now is a pants style, military combat pants. But for Spring I am looking for a flowing skirt in fine material - not cotton but satin, and maybe doubled layered,” she adds.

Her friend Kanako Watanabe, on the other hand, is looking for “a lovely loose fitting knit top and a full skirt out of some fine material and flat shoes. I also want a dress with a big neck in a floppy material to wear over jeans.”

Both girls have spent a total of US$300 and US$456 respectively on what they are wearing.

According to Koyama the eclectic approach to styling will continue into spring segueing the feminine into active tomboyish sports, augmented with bright fresh colours.

“The irregular hem will be worn in spring,” she predicts. “And the BIG colour will be pink in all shades, and earth tones will also dominate but will be accented with one fresh zingy colour such as lime green or fuchsia.”

Fine-knit sweaters with big necks were selling from US$10 to US$100 dollars at 109, to be married with classic Bohemian long earrings and belts with loose hanging chains - slated by trend watchers to be the big accessory items in spring.

As to other accessories, hats are a must, as are sports shoes that go up to the ankle, along with numbered and zippered sports jackets with a horizontal or vertical stripe on the arm, currently topped off with a long chunky scarf.

Keen eyes will note that these are fashion trends that were first introduced on the runways two years back, as was the military look reflected in all things dun coloured and canvas - and which have now filtered down into the various streams of the current teen fashion scene.

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Every country around the world makes fun of America for being nothing more than a nation filled with fat and lazy assholes who are beyond uptight about sex and who shoot our guns in the air every time we step outside of our mansions to eat fatty foods in our fat-making and expensive dining establishments, or to go to the firing range to shoot at human prey.

First of all, that would be stupid. Wasting that much ammo when there are still millions of Commies and terrorists on this planet is a crime. But I digress. What these other countries fail to see is that other than being fat and lazy and rich, our peoples are pretty normal. If they would all stop pointing at us and guffawing their annoying foreign heads off for a minute they might just realize that America is like the world’s Norm, from Cheers. Yeah, we sit around on our fat ass all day while Sam goes out and gets some tail, Fraiser goes off and starts a popular show of his own and Cliff delivers the mail like an annoying retard (Cliff representing France of course). But we’re lovable and witty. Plus we like alcohol, but that’s a whole other article.

The point I’m making here is that we’re pretty normal. However, there is a nation of perverts out there that’s hiding in plain sight. Just like Zed and that gimp in Pulp Fiction. The people from this land pretend to be nothing but hard working, starched collared businessmen whose only goal is world domination and pachinko…. but they conceal a deep dark secret. Yes, I speak of Japan, and yes, I refer to their national pastimes of chasing schoolgirl ass, bondage, tentacle sex, and taking craps on things while others take pictures. All of which goes back to their country wide and deep seated (or should I say “deep throated”) rorikon.

Everywhere, we can see a typical scene that plays out every day in Japanese school yards across the country. Three tantalizing high school girls prancing around enjoying their youth and life in general. Meanwhile, what you can’t see is the thousands of Japanese business men and other perverts pressing their faces through the bars of the fence that separates these delicate, pre-womanly flowers from the dregs of Japanese society (i.e. the rest of the population).
Though ten seconds after the dismissal bell rings and these luscious ladies begin exiting the school they are besieged with requests from horny salary men who don’t get any “skin sushi” at home. These requests (according to my Japanese friend, Sakura) range from riches, fame and fortune to star in “shit films,” to riches, fame and fortune to giving some head in a cheap hotel around the corner (fyi, every corner in every town and prefecture of Japan has a shady “love hotel” for just such an occasion).

Unfortunately, the percentage of youthful sluts that take these blue-balled fuckers up on their invitations is a staggering 98.543%! The other 1.457% do it for free.

Not that there’s anything wrong with a little porn (or a LOT of it in “My Carpet’s” case), far from it. I’ve stated it before and I’ll say it again, everybody needs at least 5 images of attractive and naked women a day. That includes women, but not children. I’m no freak.
But Japan goes far beyond that. It would appear that everybody from Okinawa to Hokkaido wants to jump the bones of a waif-like 14 year old. A friend of mine from college, a native from Japan, got all defensive and pissed off when I first brought my theory to him. This surprised me as he was the one who told me about all of the shops in Tokyo that sell “used schoolgirl underwear” and the high schoolers who whore themselves out to middle aged business men so that they can afford their cute, pink cell phones that they use to tell their friends about how Akemi’s dad fucked them up the ass for 4,000 Yen an hour before.

To prove my point to my friend (I’ll call him “Ataru” from now on), all I had to do was have him take a look around his own bedroom. There were at least 13 things out in the open that had images of teens in sexy clothes or poses. He had posters of 16 year old idol singers on his walls; he had anime DVDs depicting “monster sex” with girls in fukus sitting on his TV (I made a mental note to preview those for quality and sanity control later); he had a screen saver on his computer of some young Japanese girl prancing around in her underwear (truth be told, Ataru got that from me, but that’s not the point); etc, etc.

Sakura also told me about hygiene in Japanese high schools too. Apparently everyday all of the female students (well, only the attractive ones) have to line up at the Nurse’s Office for a daily physical. Ass pertness is measured along with “bouncy chest”. If a girl’s chest doesn’t bounce enough in proportion to her height and petite mass then she is forced to eat nothing but carrots for a month. Then the school physicians take pictures of the female students shitting the carrot fecal matter onto eager young boys to later post on the internet.

In order to stay “pure” and clean, the school nurse must go through the daily exam too. She is also to help lather up the girls and get the giant tentacle monster (each school has at least 3 in secret closets or basements spread throughout the grounds) ready for his lunch. It seems that these tentacle monsters need 5 pints of “super love cream juice” every two days to remain healthy. And any school with malnourished tentacle monsters gets 8 demerits from the Japanese Sex Control Specialist Group.

Although she didn’t want to talk about it too much, Sakura also brought up the fact that the school nurse was also responsible for keeping the resident school stalker under control. He needs no less than 5 psycho shags a day. If the nurse forgets or is held up by a tentacle monster then the resident school stalker goes nuts and kidnaps up to 12 girls of various stereotypes (including a pretty yet mousy one, a pretty glasses-wearing smart one, a pretty athletic jock one, a pretty obnoxious but misunderstood one, and a pretty wise beyond her years one who likes melted candle wax). Then he takes pictures of the girls tied up and pleasuring themselves which he posts on the internet later that day. Every picture costs that school a demerit too. School nurse must be a tough job in Japan.
That’s when he bowed his head in shame and told me everything. Every sordid little detail of life in Japan and how it all revolves around the quest for high school girl ass.

He told me about the magazines and how anything goes as long as no pubic hair is shown. That’s right, newsstand magazines (that kids can even buy) can have images of chicks hanging from the ceiling upside down by rubber cords, covered in human crap while some dork with a tiny Asian dong pisses on her from a ladder…. as long as she’s shaved. But Playboy is “evil” and disturbing because it shows female muff-fluff.

Ataru then showed me some of his personal collection of “rorikon magazines” (fyi, rorikon is the Japanese way of saying “lolita complex”). Some were pretty damn funny, like the ones with schoolgirls flashing their tits and asses in the middle of crowded street corners while nobody around them bats an eye. But most were really fucked up. There was one that had a girl partially dressed in a schoolgirl outfit with orange goo in her hair and a dog licking her ta-tas, puking all over some poor guy’s extended schlong while a masked accomplice standing behind her shoved a two foot glowing fluorescent light bulb up her toucus. The opposite page had the same girl getting fucked by another woman with a big green strap-on between her legs and a kitten in her arms while they both stood in a hot tub filled with what looked like human excrement. Both were smiling too.

If I was eleven or twelve I would have found it funnier than Night Court, but being a semi-adult I was surprisingly unsettled. I couldn’t explain it. I mean, I’ve seen some porn in my day that would make Chi-Chi blush, but this Japanese stuff made me think. Then I understood what my brain had already discovered: Japan is an untapped resource of all things smut that America needed to experience!

You see, Americans as a whole are too uptight. If some Midwestern housewife saw a bare breast flash on the tube she’d shit a brick and trip over her retarded son’s toys to get to the phone to call her Congressman in order to “get the filthy filthy pornography off the air, PRONTO”, without even checking the TVGuide to see that it was the Discovery Channel’s mammogram special trying to save her pathetic ass from breast cancer and nipple collectors. But that doesn’t matter, cause if her little Johnny had actually seen a naked booby he might grow up to be the next Larry Flint and do nothing but look at naked boobies all day…. Yeah, I can understand how not wanting your kid to be a freak paraplegic can be noble and all, but for God’s sake, LARRY FLINT! She should be that lucky! The man is a forward thinker at the very least.

To back up a bit, that’s where Japan is actually ahead of us. Now, I’m not talking about all that rorikon stuff (cause that would be wrooooooong and supple). Just the perversion in general. Don’t get me wrong, the last thing I want is tentacle monsters in every all-girls high school or neighborhood sex-stalkers in all of the girls dormitories on every college campus across the States. I don’t think we’ll be ready for that for another 4-5 more years. But I am talking about being a little more open about our sexuality. The Japanese don’t think that boobies in general are evil. That is the first step to not being prudes. The second step is to actually acknowledge the fact that your dad has groped and more than likely sucked on your mom’s breasts on at least one known occasion in their lives. Yes, I do understand how screwed up that mentality truly is, but it’s necessary… Just don’t think of my parents you fucking psychos!!! That’s just wrong and disturbingly deviant.

Only after everyone understands that boobies and twats and yes, even cocks are part of our bodies, and therefore not an abomination in the Lord’s eyes, can we truly be free. See, in Japan they have cartoons during primetime that show long-limbed, green-haired vixens fucking lucky bastards like foxy foxes every night of the week! Hell, even afternoon shows and anime aimed at tots has full frontal nudity in them. You don’t see every Japanese kid racing out to rape their classmates and steal their panties to sniff later on in their secret orgy closet of doom and touch because of this, do you?…. Wait, bad example.

Sakura and Ataru tried to explain to me how cartoons on TV at 7 o’clock at night have explicit sex and plenty of nudity with no repercussions at all. In fact it’s demanded and required by law.
The law states that each show (live action or animation) must have one count of sodomy, two counts of penis to vagina penetration and 5 “feels copped” per hour of airtime. And in the very least, 4 of those acts must be performed by or on schoolgirls.

I guess that’s why so much of Japan’s pornography is animated. Sooner or later, if it were all live action, every girl in Japan would have to appear in a porn film simply for variety. That would just be way too weird to see your sister or daughter, or even your mother, on the screen while you have a bottle of baby oil in one hand and a box of Kleenex Cold Care tissues in your other. There’s no way you could get in the mood again for at least ten minutes after that. But with animation you can draw an unlimited amount of starlets each with bigger guns and longer gams than the last! Plus animated tentacle monsters can have more tentacles than real live ones.
Looking through the piles and piles of online news sources covering events and daily lives in the Land of the Rising Sun I’ve come across a startling revelation. It is indeed possible to go too far in one’s sexual liberation and freedom, and Japan has crossed that line of normalcy at a sprint and never looked back.

There was one online Japanese newspaper that I read a while ago (I forgot its address, but it was called the Super Daily Fun News of Excitement and Power or something) in which literally every other article was about schoolgirls in weird situations. There were stories about men in their 40s becoming sugar daddies for sex-slave teenie boppers who would wear curly wigs and put shoe polish on their faces to appear African. There were tales of cops in police stations luring girls in to their precincts and taking nekkid photos of them in holding cells (or whatever they have over there) while they plugged certain orifices with guns and pens. There were even chronicles of men hiring and having their way with underage hookers for an entire night, and when the girls asked for their cash these men would claim to be government agents who were cracking down on these “rori-whore” rings. The girls would normally run, but one actually broke down and cried while she demanded her money. She cried so loud that the police came and arrested the guy. More than likely they then took the girl down to the station and took pictures of her eating pudding on the toilet.

That’s just beyond the limits of good (and legal) taste.
Extra Curricular activities in Japan are pretty scary too. Sakura was telling me all about how the only decent clubs available to join were the “Spread Eagle Bondage Club”, the “Shit Licking Bondage Fun Club”, the “Giant Robot Dildo Making Bondage Club of Extreme” and the “Sensei-Student Sex With Bondage Candle Making and Cherry Plucking Hyper Club”. She was a member of the robot dildo one herself. Her robot dildo was quite impressive. It was a triple-changer that turned from a robot to a dildo and then into a robotic puppy with vibrating tail. It’s amazing how much farther advanced they are than us.

She also revealed to me that gangs were pretty rampant in the city and that every once in a while a Neo-Tokyo Cyber Motorcycle Gang of Terror and Mysterious Lust would ride into their campus and conduct a massive gang bang that the whole neighborhood would watch and tape. Some of their positions went against the laws of gravity and inertia! I was very impressed (and surprised that my friend would actually keep 40 tapes of these encounters in her private video collection… I guess it’s just a cultural enigma).
I must make myself clear: All of that is way too far. All I want is for my fellow Americans to feel that they can handle a little T&A outside of Skin-emax at 4AM. I personally just need some primetime titties when I’m awake enough to see them. I don’t want high school girls prancing around either. I want breast-implanted 20 something babes with enough chest to physically constitute orbiting satellites! I want experienced sluts giving BJs their all while millions watch in unison! I want others to be able to go through puberty a little less confused than I was (where the only female nudity that I had at my disposal was X-Men comic books with Storm’s clothes erased and crude nipples and fuzz drawn in [not only was that situation sad, but I’m sure it decreased their street value some too]).

What about all those young and horny lads with boners that go unanswered? What if they don’t have older brothers and hand-me-down Playboys? It is for them that I strive to get full frontal nudity on TV in the afternoon and hardcore banging at night! I just hope that my crusade is not too late for millions of kids who must now try to pretend that the Ling on Ally McBeal is fully unclothed and coming on to them during the big court scene in order to get their rocks off. I pray that they accept my gift, but also that they don’t go too far and proceed to create an evil elixir that will turn them into an eight-dicked tentacle monster with an appetite for their co-eds’ sweaty panties and gym shorts. That’s just how it began in Japan.

EDITOR’s Notes: When the Rossman told me that his next article would cover “rorikon” I thought it some kind of lion tamers’ convention or something! Leave it to him to disgrace this page more than it has already been embarrassed in the past with his thoughts on Buffy and Punky Brewster. Though I think I might have him introduce me to Ataru…. I’m going to be doing a paper on dancing and from what the Rossman’s told me he’s an expert on all things “scat” and big “bandage”.

Claim: Vending machines in Japan at once offered for sale panties purportedly worn by schoolgirls.

Status: True.

Origins: In Japan in 1993 previously-worn panties were being offered for sale in vending machines. The used underwear had supposedly been worn by schoolgirls and were being sold for the equivalent of US $50 apiece.

Japan is home to a thriving buru-sera industry, of which traffic in the soiled panties of schoolgirls represents only one part — with “bura-sera” being the term for a specific male fascination relating to that country’s schoolgirls. “Buru” is anglicized Japanese (Japlish) for “bloomers” and “sera” for “sailor”; the term refers to the sailor suit, the predominant style of girls’ junior and high school uniforms.

Dozens, if not hundreds, of magazines are exclusively devoted to bura-sera photographs, pictures that feature girls clad in school garb, holding up their skirts to display their panties. Usually in such photos the girls’ faces are hidden, but that is not always the case.

Girlish youth and innocence are considered sexy in Japan, a culture with a long history of regarding women more as sex toys than as people. This obsession with untouched adolescence results in the sad sight of women in their thirties emitting girlish giggles and clutching teddy bears in an effort to maintain their appeal to the opposite sex. Although it can fairly be said Western society also prizes youth in a woman, there the fascination has to do more with the looks of a girl than it does with her immaturity and presumed sexual innocence.

A pretty 26-year-old who would be considered lovely in the West would in Japan be viewed by many as hopelessly long in the tooth.
Western society looks for firm, youthful bodies housing the attitudes of grown women — we like them young, but we don’t like them to act young. In the West, a teen’s sex appeal is dependent upon her ability to look and act much older, thus the fascination with makeup and plunging necklines, accoutrements that make her appear less of a child and more of a woman. In Japan, this ideal is reversed — sexy in the Land of the Rising Sun adds up to childlike behavior and modes of dress that express this ideal. Sometimes this amounts to the adoption of clothing styles highly reminiscent of high school uniforms, but even when a girl dons an evening gown, she will strive to look like a kinderling caught parading in Mom’s finery. Likewise, childish outbursts, pouting, and tantrums are viewed as charmingly erotic because such actions work to further the violated schoolgirl image.

In a sexual culture so dominated by roricon (Japlish for “Lolita complex”), buru-sera fetishism finds its footing. Those whose way of life has taught them to lust for young girls find outlet for their interest through viewing suggestive photos of teen girls and handling items previously worn by them.

For a price, girls supplying buru-sera items for resale will don a new pair of panties at a porn shop in the morning on their way to school, then change back into their own underwear at the end of the day at the same shop, leaving its proprietor with a saleable item. Girls can also turn a profit on their own used undies by offloading them to the same people. Generally, the more worn the item, the higher the price it will fetch. Porn shops featuring buru-sera items also vend girls’ used school uniforms.

There is no guarantee that all the panties marketed as having been worn by schoolgirls actually have been. Such details are not scrupulously vetted; no regulatory body checks to ensure the veracity of claims made about these items. However, it is clear that at least some of the used undies do come from teen girls, thus this “underwear of a Japanese schoolgirl” story is no myth.

Japan has a tradition of vending through machines what Western society would view as unusual consumables. In addition to the many items one would typically expect to find offered for sale in this fashion, porn magazines, disposable cameras, new pantyhose, horoscopes, and many other goods are routinely mechanically vended.

Part of the appeal of such machines is attributable to a matter of convenience, but concern for privacy also fuels the mania. There is less chance of embarrassment in buying condoms from a machine than from a store where the sale must be rung up and bagged by a clerk. Likewise, purchases of “pink” videos (what in the West are termed “blue movies”) are less likely to be blush-producing experiences when these transactions can be effected without anyone else’s looking on.

There was thus a waiting market for “schoolgirl panties” machines, in that those looking to obtain such items would not have to brave a bura-sera shop to fulfill their desires. These mechanical points of sale appeared in 1993 in Chiba City (Chiba Prefecture), in an area known for its porn magazine and adult video vending machines. Almost immediately, an outcry was raised against them, but there was a problem in getting them removed: Whereas sellers required licences to distribute other types of goods, no such requirement was on the books for soiled underwear, because no one had foreseen the possibility of trade in such an item. These machines existed outside the law in the sense that no specific statute existed that could be invoked to combat them.

The solution was as creative as it is odd-sounding — the machines were countered by invoking the Antique Dealings Law, a statute which stipulates that an antique dealer or a dealer in second-hand items must obtain permission from local authorities. Lacking those permissions, the items could not be vended.

In September 1993, three businessmen were charged with selling used panties without a permit under the provenance of this law. The machines were seen no more, ending this phase of Japan’s “Vend me your rears!” craze.

Teenage Sex and Buru-sera Shops

There is a certain sort of used clothing shop that has been booming in recent years.

The shop is one room in an apartment. There are two display cases, one on each side of the room, facing each other. There are mountains of underwear in every color. You begin to notice the ‘abnormality’ of the place. This is not a department where beautiful lingerie is sold. These items are all stained and soiled. In other words, they are used. Uniforms from famous middle and high school girls’ schools are also on display. They are also dingy. This is place that sells items that should have been thrown away or sent to the cleaners.

Shorts (bloomers) which are used in physical education classes (known as Buruma in Japan), school uniforms, and sailor or middy clothes (known as sera) are in these stores. As a result these stores have come to be known as buru-sera shops.

The sellers are just common middle school and high school girls. They stop by on their way home, looking for a little pocket money. Some take out sundry items from their bags, while others take off their underwear on the spot. The clerks then check the amount of soiling and price them accordingly. Among other considerations are smell, and these items are ranked such as ‘three day items,’ ‘one week items,’ etc… An appropriate amount of residue of menstrual blood or excrement brings particularly high prices.

In the case of underwear 2000 yen ($20) is the general price. If there is a photo of the girl attached the price can more than double. The ’sailor’ clothes are more expensive if they are from a school that is well known or from an ‘uptown’ girls school. There are some maniacs who will pay any price for a uniform from the Princess’ home school.

The girls who come to sell are happy go lucky. “We just want money. This is an easy way to get it and it’s better than working part time.”
There is a never ending flow of white collar workers in their twenties and thirties and college students coming in to buy these unusual items.

The girls who come in to sell are not from poor families; on the contrary, they are from established households. It must be said that the monetary values of these “neo-yamatonadeshiko” (daughters of Japan) are severely warped. They have never had to endure anything and the carefree atmosphere has removed the boundaries of common sense. “Get money. Have fun. What’s wrong with that?” is how it goes. This is the kind of value that is common to present day Japan.

The girls sell their bodies to get brand name items and have fun.

“Matter” has overtaken “Soul.” To state it plainly, this is bartering between bodies (matter) and brand name items (matter). There are such markets all over the place. They can sell their bodies as well as their underwear.

It goes without saying that the parents and adults who cannot say, “Cut out this foolishness!” are equally guilty. No one wants to think that selling underwear leads directly to prostitution. But the middle school girls in prostitution say, “I’m not doing anything wrong. I’m keeping it a secret from my parents, but I’m not harming anyone.”
According to analysis by psychiatrists, the men who steal or buy or wear women’s underwear view the underwear as a substitute for female genitals. This points to a lack of erotic communication between the sexes. There is also a great problem in the sudden increase in adults who buy this underwear and the sexual services of young girls.

Sexual perversion is related to the form of society. What must be pointed out is that there is something fundamentally wrong with this nation when ‘buru-sera’ shops flourish and ‘neo-yamatondeshiko’ are allowed to sell themselves without comment from their parents or older. It is a bartering session, one without a soul.

Seifuku (Sailor Suit)

The history began at the beginning of the 17th century in Europe. In those days, the sailor suit was made, of course, for sailors. Especially in 1628, the Great Britain Navy introduced the suit as a uniform.

At 5 years old Prince Edward (subsequently Edward VII) was depicted in a painting dressed in a sailor suit. Because of the cuteness of the painting it became the fashion after 1840 to dress young boys and girls in sailor suits.

Again in Europe after 1910 you can see many photos of children in sailor suits. At the same time, Japan was in the era of Taisho, and democracy began to grow. Women’s status in society improved slightly and they stopped wearing typical Japanese clothes (Kimono), which was a symbol of old tradition. At the same time many schools introduced the sailor suit as a uniform because of the current fashion in Europe.”

The sailor suits (sera fuku, seifuku) you may or should have seen many of times in all types of anime/manga. Uniforms can be required at many Japanese public and private schools. Every school has its own particular style, and some uniforms have even been created by top Japanese fashion designers. These uniforms are also very practical as they are not very expensive when compared to regular clothes since they are mass produced and are made of very sturdy long lasting material. School boys after elementary school have worn uniforms with an army look. “Sailor suits are rather popular in Japan in the 2000s, mostly as school uniforms but also as a basic style. A lot of little boys wear them, but more girls do, up through highschool and even adult women wear them.”

It seems that it has become common for schools to do a model change of their current desing of the seifuku. I’m not sure what the reasons behind this, but some changes are very small to a complete redesign.

Seifuku have a special meaning for a Japanese person. Their school uniform becomes a symbol of their growth, a reminder of some of their greatest memories, and a trophy of their childhood. Japanese students absolutely love wearing seifuku, contrary to what most Americans would assume; in fact, many girls choose the school they go to based on the school’s seifuku. As a result of this importance, the seifuku commonly holds a special place in Anime.

Another reason why the seifuku possibly has become popular and still around is of course the obvious answer is that it is to fuel the multi-billion dollar school girl pornography industry and drive salary men wild with desire. The Japanese have a name for their schoolgirl fetish, buru-sera. The term buru-sera comes from the word buru, which is the Japanese term for ‘bloomers’ (IE. panties)’ and sera, meaning ’sailor’ from the standard Japanese schoolgirl outfit. Japan equates youthful innocence with eroticism, a notion supported by the hundreds of buru-sera magazines in print in Japan, most of which feature young models dressed as schoolgirls giving readers (viewers) tantalizing looks at their cotton unmentionables. It was even a short-lived trend to sell panties in vending machines along with a photo of the girl that wore them. These vending machines mostly appeared in porn-drenched Chiba City in Chiba Prefecture.

There is even a cultural phenomenon in Japan known as the kou-gyaru (kou=’high’ from ‘high school’, and gyaru=’girl’), known in the West as kogal. Kogal girls are characterized as being borderline prostitutes, girls in their teens and early 20’s who dress in school outfits and use their youthful looks to swindle rich, older men for money, drugs, and sex. While it’s probable that a fair number of kogal lived up to this media-hyped stereotype, overall the phenomenon (which appears to have reached its apex, and is now in decline) was pretty benign.

Most Japanese school uniforms had been “traditional style”, sailor blouses, eton suits, and so on. But later 1980’s, one private girls’ senior high school in Tokyo changed its uniform into “modern style”, and then it won grate popularity. Since then, many private high school and some public high school changed their uniforms into the modern style. But many public junior high schools’ uniforms have been left the traditional style. Every school which has school uniforms has two kinds of uniforms, summer cloth and winter cloth. Summer clothes are worn in a period form May 1 to the end of September, while winter clothes are worn in another period, from October 1 to the end of May. In addition, many schools have regulation gym clothes, school bags, shoes, socks, winter coats, indoor shoes, etc.

Traditional Summer Uniforms:

A suspender skirt and a blouse is often adopted for school girl’s summer cloth. Its suspender does not suspend the skirt: skirt is fastened a waist snap. So the suspender is either an only ornament, or a part in order to hang together with a blouse. A skirt suspender is mostly detachable, but removing the suspender is generally banned by school regulations. A vest, a blouse and a skirt is very popular cloth for japanese school girls’ summer uniforms. A collar of the blouse is round, angular or sharp. Its skirt is fasten with a weist hock and eye, and is often hung on a bottom hanger set under the blouse hanger. But in some area or some schools, a suspender skirt is worn for the uniform. A Jumper skirt and a blouse is one of the most traditional cloth for school girl’s summer uniform. A sailor blouse for school girl’s summer cloth is white. its tie is mostly red, blue or “year’s color”, identified by student’s enter year, among red, blue, and green. A sailor blouse of some schools has an embroidery, which is mostly either two letters of “JH”, shorten of “Junior High school”, or school emblem. A skirt of a sailor blouse for junior/senior high school girls is fasten with a weist hook and a eye, and is often hung on a bottom hanger set under the blouse hanger. But in some area suspender skirts are used for the uniform, and you can see a letter of X, a suspender, on student’s back.

About Traditional Winter Uniforms:

An eton suit, a coat without lapels, is one of the most popular uniforms for junior high school girls’ winter uniforms. A white blouse, a vest and a skirt (suspender skirt or non-suspender skirt) or a white blouse and a suspender skirt is mostly worn under eton suit. Blazers are adopted as modern style uniforms, but are also as traditional style uniforms. Traditional blazers are plainer than modern ones. A vest or jumper skirt is worn under traditional blazer. under it, a white shirt is mostly worn. Boleros are one of traditional winter uniforms. Some boleros have their collar, while some do not. A jumper skirt or a vest is mostly worn under the bolero,and under it, a white blouse is worn. A sailor blouses for winter uniforms is navy blue. Its tie mostly red, blue, white, or “year’s color”, identified by student’s enter year, among red, blue, and green. A sailor blouse of some schools has an embroidery, which is mostly either two letters of “JH”, shorten of “Junior High school”, or school emblem. A skirt of a sailor blouse for junior/senior high school girls is fasten with a weist hook and a eye, but in some area their skirts are jumper skirts or suspender skirts. And in some area a white shirt or a white blouse is worn under the sailor blouse.

Modern Style Uniforms:

Modern style clothes for school uniforms seem to be with no individuality; it is sufficient to show an only typical example. A winter clothes is blazer and skirt. A skirt is either plane gray or tartan. A summer cloth is mostly one of following three kinds: a knitting vest, a vest witch pattern is the same as the skirt, or a jumper skirt whose waists are opened. The third one may be rather a modern suspender skirt than a jumper skirt.

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• Director: Masato Harada
• Writer: Masato Harada
• Cinematographer: Yoshitaka Sakamoto
• Starring: Hitomi Sato, Jun Murakami, Kaori Momoi, Koji Yakusho, Shin Yazawa, Yasue Sato, Yukiko Okamoto
• Year: 1997
• Country: Japan

Masato Harada’s somewhat of an enigma. The director literally works in Los Angeles half of the year, and everytime he returns to his native Japan, he finds so many things which upset him that they invariably find their way into his films.

Written and directed by Harada, his latest film, the 1997 Bounce KoGALS (a.k.a. Leaving) takes on the issue of enjo kosai - teenage girls who prostitute themselves in order to buy branded clothes and bags. KoGals are these cool trendy teenagers and Bounce is the story of two bubbly KoGals in Shibuya, Tokyo.

Jonko leads a group of high-school girls involved in escort services. Unlike most, she doesn’t sleep with her clients, preferring to use her mix of charm and guile instead. Jonko’s just struck up an understanding with Oshima, a yakuza gangster who’s none too pleased that high-school part-timers are threatening the underworld’s traditional sex industry.

Raku is a street dancer who occasionally does some escorting. She’s fallen out with Jonko earlier over the latter’s methods, but both remain fond of each other. Lisa Togo, a 16-year-old girl from Sendai was brought up in the U.S. Back in Japan for almost a year, she wants to run away to New York. She’s been working in a convenience store for a year to save for her trip, and her air-ticket will expire in a day’s time.

Hoping to earn some fast money before flying off, Lisa stops over at Shibuya to sell her panties at a burusera shop (a fetish shop selling and buying girls’ school uniforms and panties) where she agrees to feature in a video. The money will help her survive when she’s in New York. Lisa meets Raku at the shoot, but things then go awfully wrong when two thugs turn up to break up the video shoot. Lisa flees with Raku, but not before losing the money she has painfully saved. Eager to help Lisa out, Raku introduces her to Jonko, and the pair head off to earn enough to finance Lisa’s trip before the next day. But their plan turns awry, and the yakuza are soon after them.
Harada doesn’t absolve girls like Jonko or Raku for what they do, but he reaches beyond the sensationalism to portray a kind of subculture which goes beyond loose-socks, pokeberu (pagers), cell-phones, and Gucci bags. These are girls who get together to share and giggle at each other’s experiences. Beneath their cynicism, the KoGals come across as normal teenagers who happen to be more acute to the opportunities around them than their male clients. “Men are becoming more like children these days, so we become the grown-ups,” Jonko argues.

In one instance, an 80-year-old war criminal proudly retells his grisly war exploits to Lisa; in another, a bureaucrat gets his kicks making the girls clean the toilet. Coming out of the station, Lisa also gets harassed by a married man old enough to be her father. Shibuya through Harada’s camera comes across as a suffocating place for the teenage girls to live in, where almost every man the three girls run into - regardless of age or occupation - is either a sex pervert or an indifferent onlooker. Ironically, even Jonko’s father picks up high-school girls.

The greater irony, though, is that those who do care are outcasts themselves - Oshima, a yakuza, and Sapp, a teenage punk working as a ‘talent scout’. A Japanese businessman can be rotten beneath his suit and soft demeanour, while KoGals, punks and yakuzas are the ones with principles.

One might accuse Harada - who reportedly was upset by what he saw in one panty-shop - of stereotyping men in Bounce by turning them into deformed caricatures. But again, the film deals with a nation of men infamous for its lolita-complex (or loli-con, as it’s called in Japan), and a city where the peddling of soft-porn featuring children as young as 12 is widespread.

“It’s a scary place to live in today,” Lisa counters Oshima when the yakuza lectures her. Bounce protests on behalf of these girls by shaking an angry fist against the society and media which the director sees as being equally guilty, if not totally.

Harada’s compassion towards the KoGals in his film is tinged with much rue and sadness. Jonko, too headstrong for her own good, soon finds herself and her friends in trouble with the yakuzas. But one character who leaves an impression is Mura, Jonko and Raku’s friend who finds it hard keeping up with the rest. The film starts with her at a clinic waiting for an abortion, and ends with the girl tragically losing her left eye after being attacked by a client. The dressing down Oshima gives Jonko later at the hospital is probably one of the high points of the film that’ll stay in my mind for a while. There’s nothing glamorous about the KoGal lifestyle, and ultimately it’s the more reserved Lisa who teaches Jonko and Raku a thing or two about life.

For their part, the actress-trio Hitomi Sato, Yasue Sato, and Yukiko Okamoto put in memorable performances as Jonko, Raku, and Lisa respectively. The chemistry between them lends much credibility to a story hinged on the three girls’ camaraderie. As it is, I ended up feeling for them, and their tearful farewell in the end was as painful for me as it probably was for them in the story. Veteran actor Koju Yakusho (Lost Paradise, Shall we Dance?) was also impressive as the somewhat fatherly yakuza Oshima.

The direction is wonderful, with the film switching seamlessly between the crowded streets of Shibuya to the seedy and claustrophobic premises where KoGals operate, and then to the serenity of the parks and temples where the girls (and the film) pause only occasionally to reflect.

This is one of Harada’s best films to date. True, it lacks the action Kamikaze Taxi has on-screen, but as a social-drama, Bounce KoGALS pulls no punches, nor does it try too hard moralising the issue. It only retells the threesome’s story as we follow them from one encounter to encounter. Yet when it’s over, none of us can remain unaffected.

Poignant but optimistic, Bounce KoGALS is a beautiful subcultural coming-of-age film that’s probably one of the best to have come out of Japan in 1997.

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At the end of the twentieth century the Orient is once more the focus of European desire and fantasy. This time it is the turn of the media, advertising and youth culture to imagine in Japan and Hong Kong what they can no longer imagine in Europe and America. In the 1990s Japanese and Asian imagery has become more and more prominent in American and European youth culture. Japanese things and Asian faces have filtered into the chilly arena of the super- cool. Increasing numbers of magazine and fashion models have Asian features.

Contemporary images of Japan are images of the future. In a relationship which began in the film Bladerunner, Science Fiction images of the future and images of Japan have fused into one. European and American youth who have become disillusioned and cynical about youth politics and cultural resistance, have been invited to imagine East Asia as the true location of corpulent, hard-boiled subculture, and an East Asian youth movement. Imported Japanese animated films have helped to feed the image of Japanese youth as robotic, ruthless and visual animals of a post-modern future. Otomo Katsuhira’s film AKIRA , released in Europe and America in 1990 was received as a blast of new energy by youth across the West. References to Japan have become important signifiers of coolness in the packaging of youth culture.
In fact, these images represent only the visible tip of a far more extensive and uncontrolled transfer of ideas, politics and culture from the East to the West. The themes underpinning Japanese youth culture in the 1970s and 1980s have become meaningful and relevant to European and American youth in the 1990s. A prediction made by the French Hegelian philosopher, Alexander Kojève in 1959, that “the interraction of the West and Japanä will result not in a vulgarisation of Japan but rather in a Japanization of the West,” is being born out.

Western youth have become extremely receptive to ideas and images which first flourished in Japan. In the 1990s, weakness, dependence, passivity, and childlikeness, have been key themes in Western youth culture and fashion. They are new themes in Western youth culture which have a strong connection and similarity to the themes of Japanese youth culture from the mid 1970s. The best example of this connection is the case of cute.
Japanese cute

Kawaii style dominated Japanese popular culture in the 1980’s. Kawaii meaning ‘cute’ in English essentially means childlike, and by association: adorable, innocent, simple, gentle, and vulnerable. Cute style saturated design and the mass media whilst they were expanding rapidly in Japan between the mid seventies and the mid eighties. Cute style reached its height of saccharine intensity in the early 1980s. Cute fashion gradually evolved from a pretty serious, pink, romanticism of the early 1980s, to a more humorous, kitsch, and androgynous style which began to fade in the early 1990s - before making a return in the mid-nineties as Japan celebrated its own version of the seventies-retro. In the mid- nineties Japanese cute returned as the more kitsch and knowing ’super- cute’ (chou-kawaii).

Childishness and individualism

There had been no strong pattern of thought which linked adulthood with individual freedom in modern Japan. Maturity, which in the Britian and America, has, until recently, been linked to the authority and rights of the individual man, has tended to be thought of according to a Confucian-derived model. That is, maturity has commonly been thought of as the ability to cooperate well, accept compromises, fulfil obligations, and carry out social responsibilities. Only childhood has unambiguously symbolised individual freedom in modern Japan. Rebellion from society in Japanese youth culture during the post-war decades, developed into a rebellion from adulthood as well.

Cute fashion was all about the apparent recovery of a childlike emotional and mental state. As Disney romanticised nature in relation to industrial society, so Japanese cuteness romanticised childhood in relation adulthood. By idolising their childhood’s young Japanese people implicitly damned their individual futures as adults in society. Condemning adulthood was an individualised and limited way of condemning society generally. Cute fashion idolises childhood because it is seen as a place of individual freedom unattainable in society.

Cute in European and American Youth Culture

In the 1990s cute and childlike elements began to emerge from within Western youth cultures. Radical, assertive young women began to wear baby-doll dresses or old-fashioned frilly frocks, with Dr Martin boots and other macho accessories. They become known as ‘Riot Grrls’. This was a style which originated in female rock and punk bands, such as Hole and Babes in Toyland, coming out of East Coast America in 1990. Courtney Love, the lead singer of the Hole, become famous for wearing flimsy baby-doll nighties with high waists and hems in a punky assertive way. Courtney described her style as the “kinderwhore” look. At the same time the all-girl Japanese rock-band Shonen Knife, also became popular in America and the UK. They were identified by their eccentric, little Japanese girl image. Singing lyrics about jelly beans, Barbie doll, and rockets, Shonen Knife became the support-act for the rock- band Nirvana, reflecting their status as a pivotal source of inspiration in Anglo-American pop- culture.

The Riot Grrl style spread from America to the UK during the 1990s, but the British comic strip Tank Girl created for Deadline comic in 1988, was in many senses an early prototype of the half-punk/half- child image. In 1996 Tank Girl was turned into a Hollywood film, reflecting the rise of the Riot Grrl image from underground to mainstream commercial youth culture in the space of the first half of the 1990s. Pop-singer and cultural trend-setter, Bjork, utilised the new childlike look and behaviour. As did the film-star and ‘it girl’ of 1997, Chloe Sevigny.

Since 1996, the Spice Girls represented a gentler form of the Riot Grrl image. The Spice Girls slogan was “girl power”, a lightly feminist concept which was targeted at children and a family audience. The Spice Girl’s image was a reliable, professional combination of infantilism (personified by ‘BabySpice’) and assertiveness (personified by ‘Scary Spice’).

The tough but infantile Riot Grrrl style in Britain has been directly and indirectly influenced by Japanese cute culture, especially the sophisticated infantile styles developed around Tokyo’s Cutie For Independent Girls magazine, in the late 1980s. Britain’s principle youth culture magazine of the 1980s, The Face, promoted selected aspects of Japanese youth culture, through the 1990s, in articles on subjects such as otaku (nerd subculture) , shinjinrui (new breeders), and UFO (United Future Organisation) - the Tokyo DJ-ing outfit. Articles and photoshoots in The Face made frequent reference to Japanese youth culture and Japanese cute.

Miss Selfridge is the most important fashion designer and clothes shop in the UK. In the 1990s, the design team of Miss Selfridge focused on producing tiny T-shirts, and girlish, childlike clothes, that had been strongly influenced by Japanese cute. The influence of Japanese cute culture, on high-street fashion was made even more clear from the mid- 1990s when Japanese logos, Japanese toys, ‘Hello Kitty’ logos, and Japanese print-clun arcade machines found themselves on to the shop floor of Top Shop and Miss Selfridge.
Other infantile fashion trends in Britain and America which were preceded in Japan, include the mini- back pack. The mini-backpack, invented in 1984, became a ubiquitous sight on the streets of Japan in the late 1980s. It became a ubiquitous sight in British clubs and bars in the mid 1990s. Likewise dummies, lollipops, cuddly toys, transferred themselves from the streets of Tokyo in the 1980s, to European and American club culture in the 1990s.

Cuteness and the lack of confidence in individualism among European and American Youth

As key Western political ideas based on the freedom of the individual have been abandoned, the social structures and youth cultures of Western societies have become increasingly similar to those of Japan. As the belief in individual freedom has become more uncertain in America and Britain during the 1990s, then so its youth culture has become less assertive. Young people in the America and Britain have been encouraged to question whether individualism - so long taken for granted - is a good thing, or not.

Many young people have become confused about what exactly a strong individual should act like anyway. In this regard, British youth have become more like Japanese youth. On a practical level too, in European societies with rapidly decreasing social and political freedoms, becoming an autonomous and independent individual has become an increasingly difficult proposition. Riot Grrl and Babe fashion in Europe and America express the sentiments of new people who are certain that they will be able to gain nothing of substance from their adult lives.

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