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A former University of Tokyo professor received entertainment at a soapland (a Japanese brothel offering bathing services) in exchange for granting favors related to a cosmetics business, Daily Shincho reported on October 1. According to testimony from the bribing company, the professor obtained erectile dysfunction medication from a pharmacy beforehand, insisted on showering before entering and on being the “first customer of the day” (kuchiake), and even held a post-session “debrief” (kansousen) to discuss his impressions afterward. It also emerged that he paid out of pocket to extend his session by another two hours at ¥80,000. On 5ch, discussion ranged from disbelief and mockery at the professor’s personal “creepiness,” to questions about why the cosmetics industry would entertain a university professor in the first place, to tangents about the realities of the sex industry.
Bribing Company Reveals: Ex-Tokyo University Professor’s “Way-Too-Creepy Post-Session Debrief” and “Obsession with Pre-Session Showers” in Soapland Bribery Case — Even Paid Out of Pocket for “2 More Hours at ¥80,000”
10/1 (Thu) 11:21 JST
Daily Shincho
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
That's just sad…
And get this — apparently both of them did it, lol
>>Yoshizaki reportedly said, 'If I bought it at Todai someone might get suspicious, so I stopped by a clinic in Ueno instead.'
He should've just borrowed some experimental drug from another lab at his own university instead of buying it
Guess it's nice that you can just buy that stuff at your local pharmacy now
Once you discover sex work after 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 spends like ¥500,000-600,000 a month on it.
Pretty low caliber.
I feel like Kei○ (Keio University) would be even worse though
Probably angling for immediate oral service (sokushaku)
An academic stamp 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 arms-crossed, smiling pose).
And throw in some endorsed marketing copy too, like 'This cosmetic maximizes the beauty of 99.9% of women's skin,' etc.
If it were a man, they'd just be bribing him with more soapland trips
Guess it was decided before the vote even happened
Exactly. Also partly to climb higher in the world university rankings.
By the way, as for the 'student diversity' metric in those rankings — no worries there, since 30% of grad students are already Chinese.
What's 'kuchiake'?
It means being the sex worker's very first customer of the day.
'I'm still a virgin today' (the pitch line used to advertise being the day's first customer)
He's exactly like the corrupt bigwig you'd see in a manga, lol
He's probably already been cut off, lol
Guys with a strong sex drive have been like this since they were young
That's me last month, lol🤣
Maybe I should try going to a brothel…
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 worker who's loose (gabaman, slang for a worn-out vagina) and has bad breath,
and you might catch something nasty too.
Background and Key Points of This Topic
Note that this report is based on testimony from the bribing company, and neither the University of Tokyo nor the professor himself has confirmed or denied the allegations at this stage. As for why an industry would entertain a researcher in the first place, the underlying motive is to gain an academic “stamp of approval” that boosts a product’s appeal to consumers — and that motive tends to be stronger for products like cosmetics, where scientific evidence is harder to demonstrate. While the thread mostly mocked the professor personally, it also mixed in “no problem if he’s spending his own money” self-responsibility arguments with questions about the ethics expected of researchers in public positions. Incidentally, “kansousen” (debrief) is a term borrowed from shogi and go, referring to replaying and discussing moves after a match — here it’s used sarcastically to describe reviewing one’s brothel experience afterward. Readers should keep in mind that 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] Ex-Tokyo University Professor’s ‘Way-Too-Creepy Post-Session Debrief and Obsession with Pre-Session Showers’ — Even Paid Out of Pocket for ‘2 More Hours at ¥80,000’.”
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