UNFINISHED AFFAIRS 00 THE MEGUMI STORIES BY MEGUMI KATO AND FRIENDS VOLUME 04: UNFINISHED AFFAIRS BY BOB WILLIAMS ASSISTED BY MEGUMI, CHIYOKO, HANAKO, SAMMY, HIROKO, NATSUKO, SACHI, MAKI, YUKI AND AYAKO PART 00 Contents Introduction I Megumi: California Again II Chiyoko: A Party III Chiyoko: After the Party IV Chiyoko: The Show: A Dream of the Future V Hanako: Sweet Hanako VI Megumi and Sammy: Girl Talk VII Hiroko: Modern Technology VIII Natsuko: The Rock-Hard Club IX Natsuko: Ropes and Whips X Sachi: A Birthday Party XI Maki: The Apprentice Stripper XII Yuki: Educating Yuki XIII Chiyoko: Training Session XIV Ayako: The Holiday XV Megumi: The Hundred-Fold Curtain Afterword Introduction I first came to Japan in the late 1980s. I'd never been to the Far East before, and wanted to experience an area that fascinated me before it was too late - before settling down to a job, marriage and the rest of it in the States. I calculated that I had enough money to last about four months if I was very careful. Of course I was very naive and inexperienced. I soon met other _gaijin_ or Western foreign residents who told me the way to make the money go further was to give English tuition. Everyone does that, and so long as you are discreet about it you are unlikely to have problems with the tax or immigration authorities. And then, as I learnt Japanese and acquired more knowledge about my new country, I started writing articles about it and offering them to American magazines. I began to specialise in articles on the Japanese sex-scene and pornography industry. A few were printed and the money helped. So the original four months got longer and longer, and now I can't imagine ever leaving Japan or "settling down" back home. There is, of course, one main reason for that: Japanese girls. Whenever _gaijin_ men who know the Far East are talking together they start comparing the girls of the different countries. Some say Vietnamese girls are the world's most beautiful, some stand up for Thai girls; mention the Philippines and conversation stops as people sit with happy smiles on their faces remembering the bars of Manila and Angeles where the girls flaunt their delicious nudity and beg to be "barfined". But everyone agrees that for sweetness of temperament, and a delightful combination of innocence and uninhibited sexual willingness, there is nothing to compare with a Japanese girl.[1] Japan has a huge pornography industry, second only to that of the United States. That can be measured by output, turnover and so on. What can't be measured is the sex industry as a whole. But every Japanese town, however small and remote, has its hostess bars, strip shows and brothels - the latter often disguised as bath-houses or "soaplands". And among the vast army of enthusiastic and delightful girls who staff these establishments I have never met one who wasn't totally dedicated to her work and didn't make sure her partners - and she herself - got the maximum possible pleasure from her craft. Now, if you have experience of Western prostitutes, you will know how they make it very clear by their attitude or their words that you can rent their bodies for an hour but nothing more; and you'll probably say, "Oh, these girls are just good actresses. That's part of what you pay for. If you think they are really getting pleasure from sex with their clients - hardly partners! - or have the slightest interest in them other than taking their money, you are a deluded fool." But what makes the Japanese special is that they are all, regardless of their profession, totally dedicated to their work. When you are fucking your girl and she is squealing with happiness, suggesting clever ways to pleasure you even more and make you come, coming joyfully herself and begging you to do it all to her again and again - well, it doesn't matter if she is acting all that as part of her job or doing it for real. In Japan there is no difference. To understand that is to begin to understand Japan. Sometimes we Western men who cannot bear to leave Japan are attacked - usually by Western women whose physical appearance reminds us why we don't want to go home - for sexually exploiting innocent and disadvantaged girls forced into prostitution and the sex-trade. Sometimes there is an implication of neo-colonialism thrown in as well. Well, I suppose it may be that in the poor, corrupt and politically mismanaged countries of East Asia girls join the sex industry as the easiest - perhaps the only - way of making a living and escaping the tyranny of their families. But to talk of their being "forced" into it, even in poor countries, is to apply to the East our distorted and unnatural Western attitudes to sex. We have a weird belief that women's status as independent beings does not extend to their sexuality. We cannot accept the concept of girls who freely choose to enjoy frequent and varied sex or to make the best of their most obvious and desired asset. A pretty Filipina or Thai girl, for example, smiles happily as she shows herself off nude in a bar in Angeles or Patpong, chooses her partners, relishes the admiration and desire her sexy beauty inspires and is well aware of its market value - the idea that she is being exploited and is incapable of deciding for herself what she wants to do with that beauty, is absurd and insulting. All the more so when you consider the vibrant sexuality of the Japanese girl. Japan is one of the richest and most successful countries in the world. Many, many Japanese girls dream of careers in the sex industry and besiege strip-clubs and film studios with appeals for employment. Others fulfil their sexual fantasies by building up a varied stable of lovers. They don't do it because they need the money: they do it because they adore sex, and see no reason not to have as much of it as they can get. No doubt there are some - not the sort of girls I usually meet! - who prefer their sex "plain vanilla". They are the girls who marry, have children, go to PTA meetings and have just the occasional discreet affair. But most like it as varied, kinky and perverted as possible.[2] They start by shyly emulating admired "AV idols": they experiment with nudity and sex before an audience or on camera, become increasingly confident and soon move on to the great discovery of the sexual thrill of bondage and submission. As for the implication of neo-colonialism, that is totally ridiculous: leaving aside the brief American occupation after the Second World War, Japan has never been anyone's colony. Nor for that matter has Thailand. If you happen to have read the earlier books I helped to write, you will remember that two of them tell the story of a girl I called Megumi Kato.[3] She is real all right, and is the most amazing girl I know in a country of wonderful girls. When she was still at school she decided she wanted to work in the sex industry: there is nothing unusual about that, so do lots and lots of Japanese girls. She is now one of the leading Japanese porn movie stars and is also helping to run the company which first employed her, expanding its operations in the North American market. What made Megumi especially interesting to me, both as a writer and as an enthusiast for Japanese girls, was her frankness about her sexual interests. As her charming young sensuality developed, she found in herself a taste for two things in particular. The first, which she discovered very early on, was being nude and fucking in front of an audience. The second came to her more gradually, a love of being helplessly tied up and expertly whipped. Again, nothing unusual about that: they are the typical sexual fantasies of Japanese girls. But Megumi has worked hard to improve her skills, and as a result has both a devoted following as an actress and a profoundly satisfying sex-life. We still meet from time to time, so she can bring me up-to-date with developments in the sex industry; and when she can spare the time we fuck. She introduces me to rising young sex starlets and nude models, and to promising girls who are still technically underage and are impatiently waiting, and learning, till they are eighteen and can legally be paid for fucking on camera or in sex-clubs.[4] I take them to private parties where they can go nude and fuck all they want; I buy them provocatively sexy dresses so I can have the fun of showing them off in public and to my friends; and I teach them new techniques, and develop their pretty masochistic tastes, in the sweet little locked and sound-proofed chamber I have set up in my apartment.[5] And of course I write about them. I have a lot of material in my files: articles that never got published, or chapters intended for my earlier books but for which there was no room. So this book brings together the best of this material, told in several different voices, which I hope gives a picture of a few of the "unfinished affairs" which keep me in Japan. - Bob Williams FOOTNOTES [1] Nothing unusual about that opinion. In a long review of _The Japan Journals 1947-2004_ of the veteran Japan resident and film expert Donald Richie, Richard Lloyd Parry (himself Asia Editor of _The Times_ of London) writes perceptively: "In the case of expat men, I would guess, at least half of those who remain in Tokyo do so for reasons connected to sex ... It is like one of those fairytale undersea realms where the simple fisherman follows his water nymph, only to realise after a few years of bliss that he can never return to the air. Plenty of _gaijin_ males discover with a jolt that they have becomes incapable of getting laid anywhere else." (_London Review of Books_, 17 August 2006 p. 16.) As one of those "_gaijin_ males", I would ask why anyone who had experienced the incredibly varied sexual delights offered by Japanese girls would _want_ to get laid anywhere else! [2] I know this begs the question of whether _any_ sexual behaviour can be "perverted": if we are capable of doing it to each other, and enjoying it, then surely it is normal. But it adds an extra spice to our pleasure to think of it as somehow depraved and immoral! [3] _We Always Do It For Real_ and _All I Ever Wanted_. The third book, _I Am Not Ashamed_, is only partly about Megumi: the central character is her school-friend Kimiko Kobayashi and the story describes her discovery of her own sexuality. [4] Lots of young girls earn money stripping and fucking before they are legally old enough, of course - the little darlings are in love with public sex and too eager to wait - but Megumi's company is careful to stay on the right side of the law. [5] _All_ Japanese girls are natural masochists. Not everyone has the facilities to set up a secret room like mine at home (though it can be a good investment and saves the cost of renting the popular "dungeon" theme rooms at love-hotels); but every man should keep a selection of whips and bondage equipment in his bedroom - and see his girl's face light up with joy and shy longing as he shows them to her. [Next in Part 02: Megumi: California Again] For complete series so far see /files/Authors/Bob_Williams