A couple weeks ago, the ninensei went on a field trip to Akihabara in Tokyo. The English teacher told me a few of them want to visit a maid café.

A maid café is a restaurant where the women are dressed in frilly rococo or French Maid dresses and use exalting form of the Japanese language (rather than simply the normal, or respectful form) to serve male customers coffee and food. “Here is your cuppacino, master.”

When I was on a middle school field trip into the city, the boys wanted to visit Hooters. We were expressly forbidden to enter Hooters.

And here is we see the defining difference Japanese and American sexuality. The Japanese adolescents want to see women dressed as little Lolitas making them feel important and the teachers think it’s cute. The American boys want to see big tits and short shorts and the teachers won’t allow it.

At home the men visit strip clubs to see bare titties and asses swung in their faces. Here, the men go to hostess cafes where pretty women in low cut and tight dresses pretend to like them.

In one country they inflate their egos, in the other they just inflate their cocks.

I can’t decide whether I’d find the customers more irritating as a hostess or as a stripper.

I went to my first hostess club this month with two gaijin men and our middle aged Japanese doctor patron of the evening. The Japanese doctor tried to hide the fact that it was a hostess club from me. He kept calling it an “international conversation café.” Oh, honey, I’ll play innocent for your sake, but I know exactly where we’re going and why we’re going there.

In elementary school news:

At my Thursday elementary school one of the kids caught me off guard. I could have misheard him but I think he leveled the back of two fingers at my face in the British flip off and said “Fuck,” very matter of factly.

Usually, I only see kids wearing dirty Engrish shirts at my Thursday elementary school. But I have seen the same shirt at both my Thursday and Friday schools. It’s dark blue with white writing. In big letters it says:

Rapid Growth 69

And then there is print all over the shirt that says the following:

Just now growth!
Dynamic
Stability
Action at the right time
Mission Got a backbone
A.M.S.
Mission of men