massage parlour – SoraNews24 —Japan News— https://soranews24.com Bringing you yesterday's news from Japan and Asia, today. Sun, 26 Apr 2020 14:42:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://soranews24.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/05/en_rocket_1024.png?w=32 massage parlour – SoraNews24 —Japan News— https://soranews24.com 32 32 176746664 Handjob: The Japanese seitai body therapy studio that relieves built-up tension https://soranews24.com/2020/04/25/handjob-the-japanese-seitai-body-therapy-studio-that-relieves-built-up-tension/ https://soranews24.com/2020/04/25/handjob-the-japanese-seitai-body-therapy-studio-that-relieves-built-up-tension/#comments Sat, 25 Apr 2020 03:00:38 +0000 http://soranews24.com/?p=498723 
For a memorable massage in Tokyo.
If you’re suffering from aches and pains in Japan, there are a variety of options available to help release all that built-up tension. You could head to a masseuse for a massage, a chiropractor for a skeletal adjustment, or a seitai practitioner for manipulative therapy based on Chinese and Japanese traditions.
Seitai is extremely popular in Japan, as it encompasses osteopathy, massage, and chiropractic techniques to restore equilibrium of the body through the spine and hips. And while there are plenty of them around, one particular seitai clinic has been making news recently, thanks to the below photo from Twitter user @HDHT_88.
▼ This seitai studio is called Handjob.
世界よ、これが日本人の英語力だ pic.twitter.com/8TohziJdvo
— Ｔちゃん in JPN
Fully Vaccinated (@HDHT_88) April 22, 2020
No, you’re not seeing things, and no, this isn’t a photoshopped image, as Handjob really existed. While it appears to be no longer in business, this Google street view image shows the sign when it was last seen back in 2013.
Located in Tokyo’s Itabashi Ward, the business’ official name of Seitai Koubou Handjob (Seitai Studio Handjob) sounds like an innocent-enough name to Japanese ears, given that the separate words “hand” and “job” are easily understood by learners of English as a second language. Putting the words together simply describes the job done by any massage therapist who uses their hands to work on stiff muscles…without conjuring up an image of that stiff muscle, as it does for native English speakers.
People who saw the sign and knew its steamier meaning couldn’t help but giggle at the lost-in-translation moment.
“How many customers do you think were disappointed after they had a session and realised there was no happy ending?”
“Omg they should’ve researched the word before committing to that name!”
“Alternative reading: “H-and-job.”
“A name like that does all the advertising for you!”
“Do you think maybe they really knew what ‘handjob’ meant and this is just a terrific marketing ploy?”
The curious name of this business does bring up the question of whether there was a cunning marketing plan concealed behind the innocent pretence. After all, this is the country where McDonald’s decided to release the Adult Cream Pie.
Regardless of whether the name was intentional or not, it certainly made a lasting impression, with people still talking about it to this day, years after it went out of business. Kind of like that time the new Aeon shopping mall announced to its customers that it was “cumming soon”.
Source: Twitter/@HDHT_88
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Earlier this year, police in Tokyo and Osaka began a major crackdown on joshi kosei (high-school girl) “reflexology” massage parlours. As well as massage, the uniformed girls would offer male customers a range of unconventional services such as ear-cleaning, palm-reading and hiza-makura (using the girl’s lap as a pillow).
In place of the old JK parlours, however, a new type of establishment has begun springing up: the taiiku-zuwari cafe. These new cafes ostensibly don’t offer any services involving physical contact, nor do they serve food or drinks. What they do offer is the chance to watch girls sitting like they do in gym class.
Like massage parlours all over the world, JK “reflexology” parlours are often a front for the provision of sexual services. By taking the “JK” (high-schooler) out of the name, and rebranding as a cafe, these parlours in Osaka are attempting to stay on the right side of the law. And in taiiku-zuwari, they’ve found a new specialization that they can brand as “look-but-don’t-touch”.
Taiiku-zuwari (or -suwari) is a sitting position practiced in Japanese schools. To sit in taiiku-zuwari, you sit on the ground and bring your knees up in front of you, holding your shins with their hands. Japanese students are expected to sit in taiiku-zuwari during gym class, assembly, or generally any time they’re sitting on the floor listening to a teacher. Of course, if a girl is wearing a short skirt, sitting in taiiku-zuwari potentially reveals her underwear.
One regular customer describes the service at a taiiku-zuwari cafe:
“Although the sign says ‘cafe’, they don’t sell food, and you can’t order drinks. Before entering, you can buy a drink from the vending machine outside. 2,000 yen [US$18] gets you 20 minutes just chatting with a uniformed girl in the regular seats, but if you pay extra, you can go into a different room. There, the girls are all sitting on the carpet in ‘taiiku-zuwari’. Of course, you can see right up their skirts.”
Taiiku-zuwari cafes purport to have a strict no-touching policy, insisting that the services on offer are limited to chatting and playing card games together. But dressed in school uniform and sitting like this, the girls are presented in a way that suggests they’re underage, even if they actually aren’t.
These new cafes are being rebranded for a simple reason: to evade prosecution. Three proprietors of the old JK parlours in Osaka were arrested in May on suspicion of breaking child welfare laws. Among the approximately 100 girls working for them in massage parlours, 70 percent were found to be under 18.
Sources: Livedoor News, Naver Matome
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