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The Dark Side Of Teenage Maiko in Kyoto
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00:00 Opening
00:20 What is Maiko?
01:14 The Dark Side Of Maiko
02:59 History of Maiko
05:45 Okiya
09:54 Underage drinking problem
12:46 Mizuage
14:10 Protecting Maiko Culture
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It’s all well and good to quote “tradition” every time someone dares to point out uncomfortable facts, but the fact is that especially underage teenagers should be protected from exploitation in any form anywhere in the world.
That is when japanese men say: “racist!” or “imperialist!” to attempt to hide their behavior from other countries
LOL…he seems as though he could be a useful wingman at dance clubs so I can bed the pretty girls that have fat female friends
Arigato!!!
Underage can be different to different cultures though. In 12 American States, for example, there is no minimum marriage age with parental permission. Without permission, Massachusetts has the youngest age of 12 for girls and 14 for boys. Legally speaking, there is no "underage" under the right circumstances, so it's not like Americans are in much of a position to argue against Asian culture.
Personally, I'm partial to the Native American approach. The way it used to be was that you were considered an adult once you demonstrated the skills of an adult regardless of your age. The fact is different people mature at different rates.
@@Elliandr Great point. Also, different children mature at different rates. We (in the West) tend to have one-size-fits-all when it comes to laws regulating minors (drinking, driving, marriage, employment). At one time in America and Europe, of course, children did work from young ages on the family farm, because it was how they learned to be farmers. It wasn't considered exploitation then or now (homesteaders today still tend to have large families and put their children to work doing chores, as soon as they are physically able to); it was a necessity of life, and of course it taught the children how to work. Something that we have somewhat lost in our modern societies where children are mostly in school until age 18, plus maybe summer jobs or such.
The maiko "training system" talked about here sounded similar to how k-pop industry runs their training program. They train at a young age, agency provides everything in return the agencies get majority of the groups' income until a certain point.
Anyway, I know its tradition, but I think they need to take a look at the whole system and put guardrails to prevent it from being exploited by greedy agencies.
I work as a ballet/ballroom dancer in the states and there are some striking similarities 😮❤ I have taken japanese classical dance lessons from a women who is now and old woman. It ought to be protected in a way, the artistry of geisha is greatly under estimated until you meet one 😊❤
This lady did a tea ceremony for me too, after the dance lesson and It was so calm and serene.
Her pain to become a geisha is s my pain
Culture should definitely be preserved, but it shouldn't be used as a free pass to do morally objectionable actions.
Then again, people that are morally objectionable (like the rich middle aged men mentioned in the video that use their money and status to get their way) will always find an excuse to continue their practices.
There is a CZcamsr, I believe she goes by Kimono Mom’s Kitchen. Makes excellent traditional Japanese cooking videos. Anyway, she did a mini TEDTalk type lecture about her life as a CZcamsr and apparently she also trained to be Maiko. She did mention that it was hard work. She’s basically being given away from her parents and to the Geisha life. She said there are times when it got too much that she can only cry at night and call her mom. Her mom understood that by wanting to apprentice as a Maiko, she is kind of “disowned” as she now belongs to the profession. So I guess it’s pretty consistent with the Tweet. However, it didn’t sound like it was an abusive environment. It’s just really an extremely rigid structure that doesn’t give too much freedom.
I love her channel! I had no idea she used to be maiko but now that you mention that I can totally see it in her graceful ways. Even in her lovely cooking. She's a survivor in her own right.
@@CleoHarperReturns Moe was former geiko Mameharu of Gion Kobu, a popular geiko.
@@fixxundfertig Geiko, you're right, I'm sorry. I can see why she was (and is) so popular. She's just awesome!
A thoughtful and nuanced look at traditions that are also exploitative. But seriously: in Japan, a customer buying alcohol only has to press a button "verifying" that they're old enough??
Yes!lol
Too much private freedom may become bad. But it seems like an element of the puzzle, when we read those news about japanese government urging youth to drink more in order to get more taxes. Seems like japanese people's shrinking is being conducted on purpose 🤔
Haha what a nonsense conspiracy have I made up 😀
Not a big deal. In Brazil nobody gives a damn to the "you have to be 18 to buy alcohol" rule. And its the right way, prohibition dont make sense, if they wanna drink they will get it.
gotta love how " the fu**ing rich man " is pronounced like there's a part of disgust to it...
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Meshida-San, thank you for making a very nuanced explanation of how some (not all) Maiko are exploited. Your comedic approach shows an appreciation of the clash of traditional and modern values in Japan.
Arigato!
I discovered your channel recently on the advice of a Japanese friend of mine with whom I have been talking for about 3 years, after seeing your videos we often find ourselves talking about the topics covered and about Japanese society in general, greetings from Italy!
Arigato!!!!
So maiko don't get a salary... but an allowance. So same as Japanese salary man from his wife. He also only gets allowance. Who I learned from this channel are like robots until they get to a bar. Where they can be frightened by a smiling foreigner. While they think up more work to do so they can work overtime and skip all that.
Thank you sensei. I have much more to learn.
Arigato!!!
One time my host in Japan took me to a Japanese culture show which exhibited music, comedians, puppet shows and so on. One show they did was two Maiko dancing to Japanese music. It was very delightful, I was really enchanted by their movements to the music. Just watching them dance in traditional costume was enough for me to respect the profession. I'm sure like anything else there are exceptions to their usual entertaining skills, but their ability to entertain by singing and dancing was really impressive to me.
This was both entertaining and educational. Thank you!!
In Japan they love baseball. They also live by the old phrase, "if there's grass on the field, play ball!" 🤣
Chill everyone, Maiko don't do happy endings...
this channel is great . kudos to meshida for sharing stuff to the outside world that would've never reach overhere . i guess its not all sunshine and rainbows
Thanks!
I think passing law's to protect young maikos would be best. Because rich weird creeps take advantage & must be stopped. I think that way outsiders might not be as concerned.
Hello Meshida. Thank you for this informative video
Arigato!
Great episode! thank you!
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In Mineko Iwasaki's memoir, she stated that she violated several youth labour laws in her time as a _maiko._ She didn't drink, except one time when she was tricked into doing so, not knowing what was in the cup. Given her upbringing, she was actually horrified over the fact that she broke drinking law. She didn't make much of an issue over serving alcohol and working late into the night. Mostly, she focused on the amount she worked, which was far in excess of how much was normally permitted by law. She herself worked far more than other _maiko_ did, to the point where she tried to work in emergency medical care for a failing kidney around her work schedule. (Fortunately for her, that didn't go as planned and she ended up taking a lot of time off.) As for the lack of payment for work, she stated that she did earn plenty in tips. Being the heir to her _okiya,_ though, everything she needed was provided by the _okiya_ and she never spent any of it, instead giving it to the staff.
According to Iwasaki, the issue of selling virginity is apparently something more associated with the long abolished institution of indentured prostitutes, _oiran._ The coming of age ceremony, _mizuage,_ for an _oiran_ apparently involved auctioning off the girl's virginity. This isn't to say that shady things don't happen to Maiko, but Iwasaki describes _mizuage_ for herself as something more innocent and celebratory and more related to her earnings. According to her, _maiko_ tend to explore their sexuality on their own, much like other teenage girls. I haven't read Arthur Golden's _Memoirs of a Geisha,_ but apparently he writes that the protagonist (who is based on Iwasaki) had her virginity sold during her _mizuage._ This, among other things, is what inspired Iwasaki to sue him and also write her own memoir.
Iwasaki's issue with the entire system of Geisha was that it was stale and far to restrictive of the teenagers and women involved in it. It also failed to prepare them for life outside of the system, in the event that they retired. She campaigned strongly for reforms, but nothing ever happened. Even when she retired at the height of her success at 29 and when 70 other women quit shortly after, nothing of substance changed.
Keeping in mind that it is just one perspective (and primarily written for a Western audience), I'd highly recommend the book, published in the US and Canada as _Geisha: A Life._
Thank you! Mizuage for Oiran and Mizuage for Maiko are two very different things (although I guess despite them being completely different professions they tend to get lumped together as yuujo) but even today, people including Meshida san seem to fail to make that distinction.
Btw the government was actively involved in separation of those two professions and intimate services were separate from entertainment, although in some part e.g. in Miyagawacho it was possible to have permits for both professions simultaneously for a short period of time, if memory serves.
I actively despise Golden as in my humble opinion he misinterpreted a lot of the information to give them more of a shock value for the western market, causing a lot of misunderstandings and false stereotypes persistent even in the present day.
@@justtotestlearn4591 yeah the whole reason I'm here is because of Golden. I watched memoirs of a geisha and was surprised about how bad they were treated. I was also intrigued by the geisha culture in the movie. I wanted to know how accurate it was. Obviously, very inaccurate. I've been comparing and contrasting what was in the movie and what japanese people actually say, and it's been a pretty fascinating rabbit hole
@@andynonymous6769 Oh I can imagine that it is indeed a fascinating rabbit hole...and a deep one to boot. If you have a chance to come over to Kyoto hit me up, I used to guide tours of the kagai and even though most of my connections went cold over the past 3 years, I was planning to reconnect with the world of geimaigi when possible.
Great video Meshida-san
Thank you for the detailed historical background! Japanese culture is so very interesting.
So interesting plus you put some humour in it. Thanks.
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Another great video! Please wear a clip-on mic so we can hear you better!
Interesting. Thanks, Meshida!
Arigato!
Well that was a great video on this matter. Also you really had me laughing my butt off for some of your comments. Never change man never change.
Arigato!!!
Very, very insightful. Thank you so much for discussing a difficult issue. And while some might say this, but no, you are not defaming Japan. Awareness about these issues will only make the country a better place. Every country has problems. It's important to discuss them and not keep them under wraps. That's how we progress as a society.
Thanks again for discussing this topic.
Probably fair to say it's not inherently a bad tradition. But something that gets easily exploited, since the girls are put in such a vulnerable position with drunk adult men. Basically you can have a respectable party running the show and making sure the girls are quite safe. Or an abuser who would sell their own mother for a few grand, and has no sympathy for the girls. The actual problem would be the societal unwillingness to expose and punish people who clearly do bad things.
In Kyoto, they have Geisha parties with Maikos to entertain rich and middle aged men.
In Tokyo, they have maid cafes with cosplay maids to entertain rich teenagers and anime otakus
In Kyoto, maikos don't get paid, get little allowances but they gain skills from the courses they take during their training
In Tokyo, maid cafe maids gets a salary, gain communication skills via talking to customers or doing stage performance. However they still need to pay for their own living expenses since it's just a job.
In Kyoto, if you are a famous Maiko or Geisha, you will get a rich danna to sponser you and might even buy you out. Most of the cash mostly goes to the Okiya
In Tokyo, if you are a popular and pretty Maid at a maid cafe, you will also get fans or anime otakus who buys a lot of your merchandises. Most of the profits will go to the maid in question and the maid cafe at most just draws a little from the merchandise sales.
Both are part of Japan original tradition since you'll only see Maikos in kyoto and maid cafes mainly in Japan.
So TLDR : if given a choice, i guess most teenage girls would rather work at Tokyo to be a famous maid at a maid cafe instead of choosing the dark practices at the Okiya unless you're going for the pride to call yourself a Geisha after you retired or just to mix into the rich society and hopefully to become a rich middle aged man's wife or mistress.
wow
Hospitality is both culture and business in Japan. Kabakura, host club, maid cafe, etc is form of hospitality business and yes guess are patron so no wonder guess can become papakatsu.
Okaerinachai gochujinnn chaaammmaaaaaaaaa
Your gonna skip the underage serving/drinking alcohol and working beyond 10pm part huh?
Mate, with all due respect that is a wildly inaccurate comparison. First of all, maid cafes are all over Japan, not limited to Tokyo by far. Even here in Kyoto you can find some and you have a boatload of them in e.g. Osaka.
Same goes for the geimaigi, they are not limited to Kyoto but can also be found in other cities like Nara, Tokyo and a few more.
There are so many tsukkomidokoro in the whole comparison. Just...no.
The premise is as faulty as the conclusion and I really mean no disrespect but it does not seem to me as if you had any in-depth knowledge of the matter.
Nice analysis
Meshida San it's funny you mentioned about the media not reporting serious issues like this one. This is exactly what Nobita San has been pointing out that the media will only report things like deer footprints in the snow.
Yes. I respect Nobita san. I learned Japanese culture from his channel.lol
@@Meshida hahahaha, for serious dude you are very funny, you have definitely picked the right career.
It sounds like you can have a fancy party with a maiko if you have the correct type of friends who have the correct relationships. You need someone to give you an "in" [ a proper introduction to the headmaster of the training academy ] Perhaps being rich is not the only requirement.
lol was about to go "ah, so okiya are basically the same as pop-idol managements... and then you said the same thing.
I do believe that the tv stations are reluctant to report on bad experiences by maiko because they are are afraid of offending the people who buy advertising. It is another example of placating the rich and crude businessmen of Japanese society.
I appreciate that you call out problems in Japan but because you care. I hope that Japan can protect culture while protecting its people!
I really hope I can meet you one day, Meshida! I will come to Japan in the coming years and will go out of my way to see your show!
Your CZcams videos are great! Keep being awesome and keep up the good work!
Thanks, I'll improve my English and standup skills by then.lol
See you in tokyo!
Very educational
0:08 - i WHEEZED
It's really interesting to learn more about japanese tradition culture workers real life. May be one day you tell us about traditional musicians and theatre artists also)
(10:59) I get it!! We deal with the underage drinking problem by making sure Japanese teenagers can hold their liquor.
They don't count because they're apprentices, despite being minors. Either the businesses are really good at getting away with loop holes, or the Japanese legislative assembly are bad at making laws, maybe both lol
Loved this video "de-mystifying" maiko tradition
I love Meshida-san's videos on social issues and politics
I learn more about law from Meshida san, than in the almost years I wasted pretending to study law. Arigato, Maitre Meshida!
Thanks!
This channel is a treasure of well-informed and well-presented edutainment! I'm hooked! Keep up the amazing work
Where can I get your wallpaper? I don't know where you filmed but your backdrop was so exquisite frankly I found it difficult to concentrate! Wow❤️
I bought it local wall paper shop!!!!
Also it there a problem with the microphone? The audio quality is very bad...
So says a corrupt okiya manager…
Yes. I had a problem with microphone. next time I'll fix it.
Thanks!
I will pour a drink for you but I won't drink with you. I would rather lose my employment than drink alcohol under duress when I don't want to.
Funny and informative
Arigato!
What you have described seems very familiar in the move Memoirs of a Geisha.
Interesting look into Japanese culture. I only watch educational channels like yours!
Thanks!
Maiko aren't employees, they're apprentices. They're not prostitutes, they're waitresses. It's not gambling, it's winning prizes. The Emperor isn't abdicating, he's been deposed by the Diet. I think I've grasped the essence of Japan lol.
congrats, you got honne and tatemae
You know a lot.lol
@@Meshida Because of your videos. Thank you for teaching me so much about Japan!
Oh yeah, good thing Miley Cyrus was so prepared to have her career in THIS very protective, not lolita-complexed society at all. And millions of American kids took her as a ROLE MODEL. Japan enforces restriction to enfoce NUANCE, to take out the DAMAGING part. YOU call it euphemism, and AGGRAVATE the damaging part.
Try to have some basic consistency. "Maturity" is not the issue when ALREADY teens work in all kinds of fields, and that doesn't mean it's "mature work". It means that there is a place to develop your maturity BEFORE you're dropped into the deep end, and demanded to become adult overnight like in the American dystopia.
YOU demand children go through that so YOU don't have to think about, and then you have to nerve to joke about it like you're cheekily skirting a taboo? YOU'RE NOT TOUCHING your OWN taboo. Maiko being established and protected is what Japan offers INSTEAD of an iPhone with a camera and saying "here kid, knock yourself out, but DO NOT leave a money trail". 10 years of that and what do YOU have? All the girls grew up to have Onlyfans and avoiding taxes, lord knows what they did when income was NOT invovled, jsut abandonment into outside of soceity.
Came here as directed 😂
Sound engineer is urgently needed!!!
Awesome, funny and informative video! But man, you really need a better mic, it sounds like you recorded this with your laptop…
Yes! Thanks!
"It's not that they want status and power and try to become white to get attention...like Jesus"
Hahaha, genuinely laughed out loud at that one!
Think that men have always bought women in recent history of a few hundred years but actually it's quite saddening to buy someone. But ancient Japan is more equal, according to my professor when I was in university. Anyway, am no longer in university. Love your history input on Japanese customs!
Meshida-san... you don't have to wait until your government allows 40 year-old women to work as maiko in order to move to Kyoto.. I'm sure you can find 40-year old women anywhere in Kyoto.
You should really watch Dave Chappelle's comedy called "How Old Is Fifteen Really?"
I love Dave Chappelle!! Thanks!
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It sounds absurd because I’m from the west but this dudes comedic touch kills me 🤣 serious topic and then a punchline, bruh said “job security”
Arigato!
10:23に「見」でなく「言」が載ってしまいました；
飯田さんのユーモアは微妙で話を阻まないながらめちゃくちゃ笑っとる 草 どうもありがとうございました！
本当だ！英語だけじゃなくて、日本語も間違えてた！
ご指摘ありがとうございます。笑
@@Meshida
いえいえ、お役に立てて何よりです✨
Like Jesus… lol. Well done. Great explanation.
Arigato!!!
Hmmm. If they make it 49 years and up, Meshida will move to Kyoto. 🤣🤣🤣
It’s complicated
that is really no surprise. you put rich men with young girls in the same room with alcohol.
I’ve been in Japan 20 years…married to a local woman. We hired a geisha & Maiko to perform music at our wedding. No problem there! Great experience!
Have been to Kyoto many times…
Traditionally, these women were entertainers AND what we consider as High Price Escorts, in the west.
The modernized ‘Geisha’ we hired were just for show. But the ‘real’ traditional kind…were basically high-end escorts…if you paid enough, over time…you could ‘buy’ them! 💋
The Oiran were the high end escorts, not maiko
Naruhodo.lol
The only "sanctioned" prostitutes were oiran, geisha and maiko were forbidden to do such activities, but did do so in times when the law was weaker or simply illicitly.
There are multiple things about the video which are rather inaccurate (although I agree that the labor law revision in order to better protect the maiko is overdue) and I would really really love a source for the claim that "only girls under 13 or women over 40 were allowed to be maiko" because I found no credible sources for that claim.
What irks me the most is that you did not bring up the topic of アイドル and especially 地下アイドル where the absolute overwhelming majority of the audience are men of all age ranges.
Btw 水揚げ is not the same for maiko and for oiran. Common misconception.
Also, 一見お断り is NOT limited to tea houses as quite a few restaurants have (or at least had until covid) the same rule in Kyoto.
For teahouses it is actually a logical condition, as
1. you are required to become a member
2. you having someone vouching for you is also an extra obligation for you to keep your payments timely and to behave as otherwise it reflects badly on the person who vouched for you
3. most importantly THE ENERTAINMENT IS HIGHLY CUSTOMIZED TO YOU so they need to know you well enough (e.g. the topics you are interested in) to be able to provide adequate entertainment.
Last but not least, it is not for wealthy men only, not anymore, not by far. I personally know male members who are far from rich, but are still a member of a tea house in Pontocho.
I finally understand why Meshida san started CZcams channel. It is to avoid all of his money taken by his wife so he can hire 40 yo Maiko in Kyoto
I'm single.lol
@@Meshida Then it's to be able to afford more maikos
Meshida sensei i believe the time sections you put for this video are wrong
Ohhhhh
I think in most okiya they do the drinking thing, i hope they can pay maiko at least min wage and let them get to keep tips or the bonus they get from some of the okiya/ kenban for being the top earner. Also if the history of geisha is taken into consideration it's always been changing....so if we get it change for the better it will help everyone! The ones who want it the same will eather lose in popularity or be pushed to the finge/or most traditional, (kinda like the Orion and tayuu)....even that had to change some to survive, look at ai tayuu! I hope this helps and hope the government and the kenban/okiya will see this and make better changes!
I guess Hentai Sensei's humorous gloss-over of these facts purposely leave out the other "parties" that actually control these from the shadows...since they are not "named"...no harm no foul...no dead :D - luv how Sensei makes these almost and formerly taboo topics very factual and funny....moar pluheeeze Sensei :D TYVM for the vids!!!
thanks
Miko over 40 years old... Please make it 25 plus. :3
Definitely
Also just one thing I tried joining your discord link, but it seems it has expired. I will message you directly as well.
Oh sorry, I'll check it out! Thanks!
I love watching your videos, I always learn so much, thank you.
If this behaviour was happening in Australia, I would be Outraged.
But it is not my place to Judge your Culture, that is for you to do.
Though if I ever get to your country? I would not encourage it.
Hahaha
@@Meshida Ha Ha Ha.
I would love to come there and have some female teach me the traditional way of having Tea.nothing else .I've seen it done but don't remember it all. Lol
godbless all those hard working maikos! *salutes ♥️🇵🇭🤣
😭😭😭
interesting
Arigato!
Maiko = Lolitas?? Man, that's brilliant! I definitely have to visit Kyoto now! 😍🥰🥳
Welcome!
The walled garden nobody’s allowed to see the flowers or even if there are flowers. You can trust me the flowers are fine they told me to tell u that even.
"Kpop industries are just a modern knock-off" kind hard to disagree.
Our respected host made me think. When whistleblowing on Maiko is OK, then Meshida-sama may also make videos on mobbing, gaslighting, and Japanese forms of (legitimate, legal) counter culture & subcultures..? 🤔🤗
Maiko is suspiciously close to Miko, one term for witch in Japanese. 😨
@Japanese Comedian Meshida このは最悪だよ、めしださん。
最悪ですね。。。
Cool............
Arigato!
@@Meshida ..... JESUS ! ...lol....
Where there's smoke , also there's fire. 🤔
Hahaha
Didn't Japan just lower the age of adulthood to 18? 15 seems very mature in comparison, just 3 years to adulthood.
Yes! Now in Japan, Adult means 18year old.
I watched the Memoirs of a Geisha & I can tell many things can happen behind a closed door.
Just like Sword Abolishment Edict & Article 9, anything can be modified.
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Single most historically inaccurate movie that you could have watched on the topic. It grossly misinterpreted the source material by Golden, which in turn was such a gross misinterpretation of the actual memoires of Iwasaki that it led to a lawsuit by her against him.
Yes, there is a certain degree of hypocrisy and Japan certainly likes "the grey zone" (see e.g. "soap lands" and certain "restaurants" in spots like the Tobita Shinchi etc.) and rather literal interpretation of the law like the 1958 anti prostitution law, but the movie spins a very false narrative for shock value.
If you are actually interested in the topic of geimaigi please do yourself a favor and grab a more legitimate source material than that abomination of a movie.
The author literally got sued by one of the people he interviewed over how inaccurate it was, prompting her to write her actual memoir...
@@okuu5091 This.
Write new laws to protect them please!!
So Maiko training = unpaid internship in other lines of work?!?😳😵💫 😉
13 (and under) year old law sounds great 😭😭😭
I have been “exploited” many times. 😭
"FBI OPEN UP!"
Japanese lolita complex society 😂🤣
Lol
Whatdya think about the Geisha culture in Japan? Do you think Geisha culture is fading in the next few decades? Are the younger generations less likely into Geisha (even they have the $$$)? Are there more or less younger girls learning to become Geisha today?
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So pink salon is a bukkake hair salon service for women?
I lived in Japan for a while... I've been to Gion a few times and was lucky enough to visit a tea house.
On one hand I can't really condone the mistreatement and harassment of young girls, it's revolting.
On the other hand, Maiko are like moving art, they are wonderful women who work very hard to learn their skills and they are unique in the world, I really hope Maiko can exist in the future.
My humble opinion would be that some kind of ad hoc authority strictly monitors tea house activities to control that everything is done properly.
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Maybe someday a group will work independently? If only a few decided to work on their own and choose their own apprentices I imagine they could turn the entire system upside down.
"OR there's no difference.." BURN 🔥
I got that reference so instantly.. I think I am watching too much Japanese content.
Hahaha
@@Meshida Papakatsu is a big topic in Japan after all.
Geisha and Maiko are for rich middle age businessman,...the money is managed by Okiya
Maid cafe and idols are for young people and otakus with good income,....the money is managed by their agency
Vitual CZcamsrs are for mostly poor and introverted internet users....the money is from ads, super chats and patreon
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Well, they’re not human trafficked, I guess. I think many in the comments are under the impression that they are being forced to do this.
It’s something they aspire to be, hence the apprenticeship. A lifestyle they want to live.
We don’t really do many apprenticeships in the west. Maybe some in the construction trades, but that’s about it.
As far as I know, Maiko can simply quit, if they’re uncomfortable or don’t like what they do.
They can, though I have heard that they may need to pay back some of the allowance money they spend.
@@okuu5091 Yeah, that’s fair. Many things are like that here in the west as well.
Memoirs of a gaisha not the film either talked about the dark under belly too.
Is this why Ken-san hard up paying so much to deflower.
That dirty letch 😂
Hahaha!
I swaer this dude is saying michael (maiko).
Damn. Happens everywhere but at least we’ll see if it works out or something. Really hoping the rumors aren’t true
Hope so too!
Hello japanese comedian meshida, I wonder where you learned english language?
japan.lol I speak Japanglish
@@Meshida well Im an english teacher before and I like japanese students than others, because japanese students are very disciplined when it comes to studying
No wonder ur forever alone old man 😅
Hahaha