Well, that's Japanese girls, dude!. Most of them anyhow. And to top that they come in pinapple, vanilla, and mint-choc chip flavours! *joke*. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with other type of birds, but those 90's career mistresses are just not my cup of tea, and probably not yours either if you're here reading this. Ladies I know you're only trying to be the best that you can be, which is fair enough, but countries like ours don't know where they're going, we're all just crashing into the 21st century without knowing what the hell's going on with all this gender reversal, new man, faggoty shit. Japan's not like that, they've got it sorted I reckon. They live in a very easy-going harmonious society, where everything and everbody works together to keep some kind of order, but of course, Japan has its problems. Women have a set place in a male-dominated society. Are they happy about it? I think so. For some reason or other while the rest of the world is falling to shit, Japanese women are succesfully able to adapt to modern values whilst still retaining a mastery of femininity and grace - perhaps something that females elsewhere are beginning to lack. Japanese chicks are like Disney-cartoon characters.
Of course, anybody who's been in a long-term relationship with a Japanese broad will know that they're not the tepid little flowers of the East that people envision them to be, but real women who know how to bitch when the bitchings good. But what they don't do is smoke more than you do, they don't drink you under the table, and they aren't filthy-mouthed she-men, like the ones that you might find down your local nightclub. A dudes gotta feel like a dude at the end of the day, gotta feel like he can come home to someone who needs him around. To tender, reciprocal love of the kind that you can see in old 50's Hollywood movies, and what is slowly becoming a myth in todays Western bigger better deal society. Let's face it, since us guys can't all be Brad Pitt, we tend to take the path of least resistance and go for the type of women whose expectations are just a little lower than modern day Western womans. Is that running away and selling out? or is that just using your brain resourcefully to get the best girl you can? You tell me. I could probably going into some deep-seated diatribe about Western chicks declination and the negative affects of feminism in the West, but I'll leave that to the anthropologists and before I get tied in with the asian fetishist crowd and not just a guy with a preference. Lets just say that I believe Japanese women could definitely their Western counterparts a trick or two about being real ladies, and you can quote me on that. Some of you Europeans are probably sitting out there after reading this with a confused expression on your face, thinking "Hang on, the women in my country aren't like that..". All I can say is, look, don't forget I'm a Brit, and we have it pretty rough as far as women over here are concerned...I mean, why do you think we spread out the British Empire and had so many explorers and people going abroad? Because we were trying to get away from English women, of course! Jesus why else would Shackleton be so desperate to go to the North Pole! The 'uumph' in some of these chicks amaze me. It amazes me to this day that in this country you can find girls over here with 35 inch waists who still think they're Gods gift to man. This is a generalisation of course, after all, my mother is an English woman, and she manages to be perfect somehow. And if anyone has ever heard a Japanese woman sing, you'll know Japanese chicks have their weaknesses.
Japan can be a highly repressive country in some ways, but that's why you are so lucky, because you're
the gaijin, or foreigner.
You don't fit into their society, and they don't
expect you to, some people might argue that they don't even want you to. I reckon some of the Japanese people over there love being with foreigners as it's kind of
their chance to escape the hum-drum normalism of life in the Japanese society. They know if they're cruising with a foreign dude or dudette, they can speak their minds, take it easy, be themselves. There's no pressure to conform or to avoid expressing their own opinions. There's a saying in Japan that 'the nail which sticks out further than the others will be hammered
down', and this just about sums up Japanese life, unless of course you are the
out-of-the context foreigner, with your exotic western
features (haha), and the various illuminations of life in countries that they can only d
dream about, of fast-food diners, Route 66, of medieval knights and chivalry, colonial wars, German beer-festivals, Spanish salsa, anything relative.
For you, it's just bollucks to
talk about how in your country you have twenty different flavours of ice-cream,
or how you drink tea with scones at the Ritz that one time, and met the Queen (I
have by the way and she was so close that I could've smacked her in the mouth), but for the Japanese with their enchantment for Western life, it's as though you're unravelling details of a mysterious and exciting world that they have only had peripheral experience of, but as yet was fully unobtainable until the day they met you. Most
things foreign in Japan can be associated with a certain amount of chic in Japan, so if you walk around Tokyo or anywhere else, generally you'll see a lot of advertisements written in incorrect and often hilarious English or French, and many television programs have English translation subtitles, or are dubbed. Like a guest of honour, you find yourself being invited to all
sorts of does by people you hardly know. The first time some guy did this to
me, I thought he was gonna try and touch my ass at the izakaya or something, but
no, he was just genuinely interested in England and what I was doing in Japan. You can either like it and just
enjoy it, or feel very alienated by it. Me, I don't give a toss, I love going to
barbecues and bars, any freebies are fine by me!
Anyway,if you're Japanese skills are limited the best places you meet chicks has got to be the Gaijin bars. Usually partly owned by, or at least run by foreigners for foreigners, these are the places where you meet
the most open and genuine Japanese guys, and ladies who are often keen on
guys from abroad. The ones in Sapporo are backwater dumps, but it's always fun to get pissed out of your skull and beat-up an Iraqi or two when you're feeling down.
Because these bars are plainly designed for the foreign community, or one look through the window and it should be obvious anyway, the Japanese who frequent there usually fit into these categories:
Of course if you're even in Tokyo, there are places like Roppongi's Gas Panic and Juliana's which are literally throbbing with ladies that will love-you-long-time, BUT...just kidding, there is no but. Go there and you will get laid unless you have a face like a lepor with acne, or you're French. Actually I'm just joking about the lepor part. Tokyo is fine, but there's more competition from Mr.Tourist and the like, and the girls who go to the clubs there are likely to have banged every gaijin to come through the doors, so don't expect any special treatment, and I wouldn't keep your fingers crossed for the girl you hook up with will be there the next morning. I suppose that suits a lot of guys who are playing around and going to Japan for a weekend sex-holiday but they would probably get a better deal if they went to Thailand or the Philipines. I seriously recommend anyone going to Japan to be original and adventurous, and get out of the big cities. I mean, if you're going to go all the way to see Japan, you want to see Japan, not the concrete meltdown that is Tokyo, which is about as Japan as London is England.
To finish off, I'm going to make an attempt to categorize the kind of chicks you come across in babe-fest Japan. This is easier to do than with other countries because Japanese seem to fall into distinct groups depending on their age/maturity. This isn't to say they're unoriginal in their way of thinking so to say, but they tend to save their little ideosyncrasies for special occasions or when they get home. Take a look at the list below to see what types exist:
The funny thing is the Japanese have different words to express the growing ages of these ladies. You're kogyaru only if you're between the ages of 14-18, any older than that and you're just simply gyaru. Actually I think ones that are younger than 14 are called mokugyaru or something but I forget. There is a Japanese male equivalant of the gyaru called the gyaru-wo, who can look equally cool in their beach-bum summer gear, but again, they often overdoe it and end up looking like homos.
These girls spend every penny they have trying to look like the most in pop or fashion idol at a time - well, actually many normal Japanese women do this, but upscale gyaru will go at it like they've something to prove. In fact, Japan is a commercialists dream if advertising success rates are anything to be looked at. In England, if we see Leonardo Di Caprio advertising mobile phones, we don't all go out and buy that particular brand, we might be influenced by the fact that Leonardo says it's "handy, small and comes in black", sure, but at the end of the day, if it's handy, small and comes in black but it's a piece of shit with expensive call-rates, we'll buy it. In Japan, they'll go out and buy it anyway, just because DiCrappio bigs it up. Thus is the psychology of the Japanese. Now you know why you read about celebrities doing 30 second ads and getting millions for it in Japan. Advertising is BIG business over there, and no-one follows the crazes more closely than gyaru. They'll spend every penny they earn to be just as cool as the latest singers, actors or whatever, they'll even sell they're ass on the streets to dirty old men to get the cash to buy the latest Gucci Bag, or winter coat.. I don't know, sometimes these girls look stunning and sometimes more like the Bride of Frankenstein. Take for example the summer I was there, they were trying to copy the look of some actress who had dark skin, and the in fashion was Hawaian clothes, so everybody was walking around in flowery shirts and bright yellow dresses, and had dyed their hair blonde and white and stuff. Some girls kept the make-up to a minimum and looked yummy, with olive-skin tan and nice highlights, but some gyaru looked like someone had set fire to their face and put it out with a frying pan. Burnt friggin' toast, with shock-horror white hair that made them look like ghosts or something from the Night of The Living Dead. These colourful types are also playfully nicknamed yamamba which translates to 'Mountain Hag' or ganguro, 'Cancer Face'.
Here's a pic to send you off:
AAAAGGGHHHHH!!! What a screaming nightmare... A lot of my time was spent amused by gyaru, I have to admit. The good ones really are incredibly beautiful, and nowhere else on earth is there a better percentage of an ugly dude getting a bonzai babe that he didn't buy than in Tokyo. The shit will baffle you until you realise that for a gyaru it is considered DAMN cool to be dating a gaijin. Kind of up there with having the latest Gucci bag. But like a Gucci bag, you will be treated like an object to be discarded eventually and given only trophy affection. With that said, if you're looking for a quick lay and little else, Japan might just be your playground. Any angry J-chicks reading this, be aware, again, I'm only generalising so don't send me your hate mail ok? I'm only stating what I have seen with my own eyes and know to be true.
Because Japanese life can be quite constrictive and demanding,
whilst trying to assimilate back into society after being out of Japan these types have a little
trouble, so they try to let off the steam with some easier going foreigners. I
think they feel like they can really be 'themselves' when they're around
foreigners, let it all go, and so they rarely have any Japanese buddies, just English or Americans or whatever. I don't blame 'em. Mostly this type are the poor sods
who've been in another country long enough to realise that they don't wanna go
back to Japan, but had no choice because of the visa (I can relate).
Girls of this type are ALWAYS dating foreigners, or if not that, then
other Japanese who are a little weird or foreign-esque. If you ever meet a chick that wants to go out with you seriously and long-term, it's probably because she fits the gaijin wannabee mould. It's often this type of Japanese who turn out to be your closest friends in Japan, as usually they're very sincere and trustworthy, and won't treat you so much like a 'barbarian outsider' as some of the old farts who you'll encounter on the street out there do.
These are the people that'll change Japanese society and take it out of the
past (not sure if that's good or bad). Funniest example was a J-guy I met who spoke with a pure
Irish accent, and we're talking pure pikey backwater Irish, just like any potato-eater 'Top o' da mornin'
tew ya. Sa tell me 'ave yerever bin ta Oyerlaand?'. What a dude! People may say the Japanese are a race of robots but I have never met so many fantastically varied and unique souls as I did in the six months I spent in Japan.