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Friday Fun Thread for September 4, 2026

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This was more true perhaps 10-20 years ago, but nowadays the number of fuzoku (the Japanese sex industry) establishments that will actually bar foreigners are firmly a minority (at most they will require basic Japanese for safety reasons).

With the relative economic doldrums of Japan, the decline of interest in the sex industry amongst younger Japanese men, and the economic rises of China/Korea/Taiwan/the massive rise in Japanese tourism in general, there has been a fairly large re-orientation away from catering to native Japanese with declining purchasing power and interest in prostitution towards chasing affluent tourists with money to splash.

It's even becoming a minor wedge issue in Japanese politics that Japan is becoming a sex tourism destination, especially towards rich East Asian johns that are perceived, not really incorrectly, as a symbol of Japanese decline and national humiliation.

That makes sense. If there has been a rise in sex tourism, are there establishments which cater to that by having girls who speak Chinese and Korean? Or is that not really acceptable due to the politics you mentioned?

Not something I have statistics for, but my intuition would probably be that there's more C/K speaking girls than the past driven by increased tourist demand and foreign immigration (to a lesser extent Korean, to a greater extent Chinese, the development of foreign enclaves in the major Japanese cities is another wedge issue in Japanese politics), but that C/K speaking girls would still be a tiny minority in absolute terms, as native Japanese women are still a proportional super-majority of the population, and very few Japanese women, especially the ones that end up in sex work, are going to have the ability to learn Chinese or Korean.

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