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] 

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