Tokyo’s Muslim

I was snooping around after the party ended at 10 and caught an interesting scene. To frame it, you need to appreciate that the party was a total bomb, with quite a few unattractive women meeting foreigners looking to score. I think there was maybe two or three really attractive girls in the bunch. And yet, at the end of the party I could have sworn I saw one getting a payoff from the owner when they thought everyone had gone. Then it was down to the 3rd floor and into a Deai cafe where doubtless she fleeced a few J-Guys as well..

I don’t know the details, and maybe I misunderstood something. However, let me speculate by saying they pay attractive girls to tempt guys to come to these parties. (1 nice girl = 10 gaijin men = 40 gaijin lovers / English leeches). It’s a good economic system (since G-Men pay 20$ for the night, and non-comped foreign women pay $45), but it seems that this time there were more Gaijin guys than anything else. (I guess the girls stayed at home) A lot of the Gaijin guys got their money’s worth in beer (all you can drink). I, on the other hand, got my money’s worth watching some beta bois swarm around one woman and be slowly (but politely) rejected – all in a day’s work for her!

I have a question I always ask my friends in Japan – “Why do Japanese love Americans when it was Americans who dropped a nuke on Hiroshim and Nagasaki?”. It isn’t a question borne out of any dislike towards Americans on my part, but something I seriously never understood. (I personally couldn’t imagine ever forgiving someone who did something like that). Usually the answer is a vague “Uh, I dunno”. Today I finally got a real answer.

Toshiyuki, a guy I met at that Nanpa party a week ago stopped by for lunch. Like me he had no idea what that party was really for. We met up today and ate while talking about various things. The nuke subject came up, and he basically said something like this; Japan was a country that had lost the war for sure, but its leadership was waffling over the surrender requirements. Furthermore, it was war time and it is only appropriate that a nation use all its means to bring the war to an end in an efficient manner. On top of that, America had not annihilated the Japanese, and ended the war upon surrender, and Japan had been given the chance to be reborn economically afterwards. Any “righteous anger” would be double-talk in the face of the crimes that Japan had committed in World War 2. He ended by saying that most Japanese people weren’t patriotic in the strictest sense, and that most did not feel that they were on the right side in WW2.

Although I still think that the atom bomb was a nasty piece of work, I was impressed at the rationale laid out.

Just me in the Fukutoshin-line from Fujimino to Ikebukuro. It’s the height of convenience, but it might take 45 minutes to get to Shibuya (not to mention the time spent waiting for that particular train).