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A former University of Tokyo professor received entertainment at a soapland (a Japanese bathhouse-style brothel) in exchange for granting favors related to cosmetics business dealings, Daily Shincho reported on October 1. According to testimony from the businessman who bribed him, the professor procured erectile dysfunction medication from a pharmacy beforehand, insisted on showering before each session and on being the “first customer of the day” (kuchiake), and even held a post-session “kansōsen” — literally a shogi/go term for reviewing moves after a match, borrowed here mockingly — to discuss his impressions afterward. It also emerged that he paid out of pocket for an extra 2-hour, ¥80,000 session. On 5ch, the thread filled up with disbelief and mockery at the professor’s personal “creepiness,” questions about why the cosmetics industry would entertain a university professor in the first place, and tangents about the realities of Japan’s sex industry.
Briber Spills the Beans: Ex-Todai Professor’s “Nauseatingly Detailed Post-Session Debrief” and Obsession With Pre-Session Showers in Soapland Bribery Case — Even Paid Out of Pocket for a “2-Hour, ¥80,000” Encore
Thu, Oct 1, 11:21 AM JST
Daily Shincho
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
That's just sad…
And get this — both of them did it, lol
>>"Yoshizaki said, 'Buying it at Todai would look suspicious, so I stopped by a clinic in Ueno instead.'"
Why even buy it — just borrow something another lab on campus is testing and call it an experiment
Good thing you can just grab that stuff at the local pharmacy these days
Once you discover the sex industry past 40, you get hooked.
I took a divorced friend to a soapland to cheer him up, and now he's hooked — goes every week.
Apparently he's dropping ¥500,000–600,000 a month on it.
Pretty low level.
Keio's probably worse though
Probably angling for instant oral service (slang: 'sokushaku')
An academic seal of approval for joint cosmetics research
So they can slap "Recommended by Professor Shinichi Sato of the University of Tokyo" on the packaging (you know, with that smiling, arms-crossed pose). And while they're at it, get his blessing on copy like "99.9% of women's skin becomes maximally radiant," or whatever.
If it were a man, he'd just end up getting wined and dined at a soapland again
Sounds like it was decided before the vote even happened
Exactly.
Also to climb higher in the world university rankings.
By the way, as for the "student diversity" metric they get scored on —
no worries there, 30% of the grad students are already Chinese.
What's 'kuchiake'?
It means the very first customer a sex worker sees that day.
"I'm still a virgin today" (the line sex workers jokingly use with their first customer of the day)
He's exactly like those corrupt bigwigs you see in manga, lol
He's probably already been cut off, lol
and ends up dying as 'the old man who begged for brothel favors' — wonder what that feels like
Guys with a strong sex drive have been doing this since they were young
That's me last month, lmao🤣
…maybe I should try going to a sex worker…
Order and method don't matter.
Learning how to 'conquer' women is what makes a man grow up
Don't do it, man.
You'll just end up with some unattractive woman who's loose and smells bad down there,
and you might catch some weird disease.
Background and Points of Discussion
This report is based on testimony from the businessman who paid the bribes, and it’s worth noting that neither the University of Tokyo nor the professor himself has confirmed or denied the allegations at this stage. As for why the industry entertains researchers in the first place, cosmetics companies want an academic “seal of approval” to boost consumer appeal, and that motivation tends to run stronger for products — like cosmetics — that are hard to back up with hard scientific evidence. While the thread was mostly about mocking the professor personally, it also touched on a tension between the “no problem if he’s spending his own money” self-responsibility argument and the question of how to judge the ethics of a researcher holding a public position. Note that “kansōsen” is a term from shogi and go, referring to reviewing one’s moves after a match — here it’s used mockingly to describe recapping the brothel experience. Readers should keep in mind this is based on one-sided testimony at the reporting stage.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News Express+) thread “[Soapland Bribery] What the Former Todai Professor Said About the ‘Nauseatingly Detailed Post-Session Debrief’ and Obsession With Pre-Session Showers — Even Paid Out of Pocket for a ‘2-Hour, ¥80,000’ Encore.”
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