Fellow Foreigners - The Hostesses

The Russian Hostess

The Celebrities

"Whoa! Who was that?"  a tourist or FOB

*For more posts similar to this one, see The People in Japan

I've been neglecting the Fellow Foreigners for quite some time, so without further adieu, let me introduce a very special group.........the Russian Hostesses.

Here's the deal. Gorgeous Russian women come to Japan to work as hostesses. They get paid for various services at Japanese hostess clubs. They can get paid particularly well for performing just their actual job duties .......................however...

They are tall, voluptuous and pack a serious attitude.

RH: "Ooh...my mah-thah is sick back in Russia....she's poor.... she needs money....oohhh.... I'm so sad...."

And the loaded Japanese 'salaryman customers' fork over tons of cash to them. It's a simple formula as old as time itself. The only difference about how this age-old social mechanism manifests itself in Japan is that its SO F*&KING OBVIOUS!!!! Well, maybe that's the point.

The easiest way to spot a Russian Hostess (aside from going to a hostess club) is to look for a tall and inappropriately glamorously dressed woman walking directly next to a 5 foot tall 50+ year old Japanese guy in a suit -- this is a 99.9% positive sighting. The only way to get the confirmation level to 100% is to try to say hi to her directly after the sighting. If you receive a frighteningly evil look of death, then she's a Russian hostess. When in the wild, there is no other fellow foreigner more terrifying than the Russian hostess......

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