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July 25, 2011

Economics of Storage

Posted by yosomono under How To | Tags: , |
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Storage
Leaving your home country after living in an apartment inevitably means boxing up your old place and putting it in storage. It seems like a good idea to put everything in boxes and into storage but that quickly unravels when you look at the economics of storage.

Assuming you’ve gotten rid of all your furniture, because that’s going to cost an arm and leg to pay for a giant storage room to keep all that stuff, you’ll have one or two boxes of personal belongings (i.e. pictures, sentimental mementos etc, etc) and then you’ll have a bunch of boxes of things that it takes to live. I’m talking about dishes, towels, sheets, tools, etc. The logic is that you’ve paid for all this stuff so you should keep it stashed as it will be ready when you return.

But if you’re a long-term expat storage just doesn’t make sense. A decent size storage space say 10x10x10 feet is going to cost you around $100 a month. If you’re gone for a year then you’ve spent $1200 on keeping all your old stuff. Two years $2400, etc, etc. Unless you’re keeping gold plated utensils in your cheap storage locker that means that probably within in a year you have spent more money on storage than the stuff you’re storing is actually worth.

When you look past the emotional connection you have with the sofa, where all your conquests took place or the dinner set that you stole from your ex-girlfriend, you’ll realize that it’s actually cheaper to just unload everything before you leave.  Then when you return to the motherland just buy a whole new set of stuff for your apartment from the money you have saved from not using storage.

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December 20, 2010

How to pay for sex in Tokyo-1

Posted by gaijinass under Bateman, Guest posts, How To, Japanese Women, Sex in Japan | Tags: , , , , , , , , |
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How to pay for sex in Tokyo-1

Guest post by:  “Bateman”

Friday night on the piss and no relief in sight for that itch for ass you’ve been nursing all week. What’s a guy to do? The steaming flesh pots of Tokyo offer relief.

Known as Esthe salon or simply “massage”, Tokyo is home to a huge range of “happy ending” outlets. The trick is, dividing those offering full service from those that do not.

There are lots of ways to sort these online, but almost all require Japanese. Your best bet when you want a quick and easy solution is to hit a neighborhood where these joints are concentrated – the alleys of Kabukicho, Ikebukuro, Gotanda, etc.

Gotanda is particularly good – relatively foreigner friendly, it is close to the city center and just a ten to fifteen minute taxi ride from Roppongi.

When you arrive at the station, you will see across from the busy side some back streets with sketchy looking signs and people wandering about trying to attract customers.

Among these will be some girls asking if you want a massage. And generally, they speak enough English that you can confirm it is the type of massage you are looking for.

Once you find what you want, they take you inside and ask you what level of service you want – all the way from fist of glory to full service.

There is room to negotiate here – ask for more for less. If they are not busy and you are nice about it, they will likely go for it. They will also often ask as part of this process whether it is your first visit – the answer to which is no. If they know you have been before, they know they need to up their game to keep your interest. And, as a regular customer, you can talk them down in price.

Once confirmed and paid, you will be taken to a room with a massage table and asked to change. Your girl then comes to take you to shower. These places generally only have three or four girls so there is not a lot of room to trade up if you don’t like what you see.

The service level also varies depending on the shop, the girl and the time of day – but the results are all the same. Enjoy!

Read more posts from Bateman and learn about Tokyo’s dark places in Haunted Tokyo or check out The History of Illogical Blood typing by Gaijinass

 

November 17, 2010

Pick up Girls using the CARVER Matrix 1

Posted by gaijinass under CARVER MATRIX, Gaijin, How To, Love in Japan, Shinjuku | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
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Pick up Girls using the CARVER Matrix

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“If you want to increase your chances of success with women, create situations that lead to these situations.”
David DeAngelo quote

At some point starting during the end of the Vietnam war, the United States special forces began developing a Target Acquisition system that would later go on to be used in the post 9/11 world as a valuable and hyper effective Risk Assessment tool in the war on terror. This tool is the CARVER matrix.

CARVER
-Criticality
-Accessibility
-Recuperability (Return)
-Vulnerability
-Effect
-Recognizability

The dynamics of this system have allowed numerous governments and agency to pre-empt attacks and identify weaknesses in their own systems. It is helping stop terrorism…

…and that’s just great.

But….

….that is not going to help you get in the panties. So, with that thought in mind, we here at Gaijinass have decided to turn our laser like intellects and the power of the CARVER matrix to the task that matters most to the people likely reading past this sentence.

Model based decision-making such as the CARVER matrix is awesome because it eliminates something that invariably screws decisions up and that’s your emotions. It removes them from the situation. You might think you’re smooth and have all the answers but the reality is that you don’t. In fact, what little information you do have is likely counter productive, your “intuition” or “Spidy sense” as you like to call it didn’t help you with that case of herpes now did it? Your defunct inner compass is why you’re still booty calling  that fat chick you met at the Indian Curry buffet from last Easter…and she STILL smells like curry. And that’s fine because we all agree; Indian curry is awesome.
But it’s time to crawl out of your gutter though and let that little light of yours shine.

Go ahead, Hold it high for all to see.

Now, for the purpose of this simulation, we are going to make a few assumptions to keep things streamlined.

  • You are not 50-cent. You’re not Mystery. Nor are you Orlando Bloom.  Conversely, you’re not Carrot Top either. You are an average or slightly above average looking normal guy. You have average to slightly above average game.
  • You are not a crippled beggar on a skateboard. However, you’re not having your Ferrari shipped over here either. You are financially middle class or near that area.
  • You have an average to well below average wang (except for all writers and contributors to this Blog, in which case “diabolically small” might be more appropriate), that is connected to a ferocious sexual appetite with the destructive consumption ability of “The Nothing” from The Never-ending story. Which, by the way, FUCKING ENDED!

"Never-Ending, my ass."

Location

Location Location Location.

It’s true, this is important. Sure, you can just go wander around the grocery store and if you’re there long enough at some point you will meet a sad “divorcy” buying microwave dinners and you might have a shot at a hand job in a filthy Piggly-Wiggly toilet. But if you’re serious about meeting women that DON’T have a plastic appendage or HAVEN’T ever been penetrated by their “sweet lord Satan” then you need to stop hanging out on the sidewalk in front of that mental hospital waiting for someone that doesn’t wear diapers.

Gaijinass currently runs operations out of Tokyo “WTF” Japan so the locations I am going to name and run through the omniscient CARVER Matrix are places an aspiring gentleman or persuasive scumbag might go to make time with a nubile young J-girl. The following locations are:

Target Rich Locations C A R V E R TOTAL
Roppongi 10 10 9 8 9 9 55
Shibuya 8 9 8 8 8 9 50
Shinjuku 7 9 7 7 7 8 45
Ebisu 6 6 4 4 5 7 32
Ikebukuro 7 8 7 7 7 5 41

Based on the Matrix above (sounds fucking cool right? MATRIX) , Roppongi has been awarded the highest points for location. Let us briefly discuss why this is and the considerations made for each component within the system. And I mean briefly. For a long explanation on each component go here kids.

Roppongi is well-known as a foreign culture center in Tokyo and attracts many ex-pats nightly. This in turns attracts the Japanese women intent on meeting them.  Locations to drink, socialize and drink more abound.  So, for total Criticality, Roppongi received the maximum amount of possible points.    It received the same for Accessibility because you could go any night of the week and there will be women drinking there that will immediately have an interest in you because you are not Japanese.   Recuperability (return) scored slightly lower due to the fact that because it has this magnet like quality of foreign guys you will have competition. Although, a scimitar wielding monkey wearing a dead baby for a hat could get phone numbers, the number of women left to drag home at 4 AM will be limited.  Have no fear though, by comparison, you have a much higher chance of whisking home some drunk skank there than in the other locations.

Vulnerability received fewer points, in fact the same amount as Shibuya because the level of difficulty will likely be the same and the amount of time needed to insure your one night stand will also likely be about equal. However it should be less difficult than for example Ikebukuro where you would have to go to 2 or 3 bars and then all night karaoke forcing her to miss her last train insuring she will vomit in your home toilet before passing out so you can -ahem- “pleasure” her at your drunken convenience. 

Effect was high yet again because just the act of you making your sorry way to Roppongi will drastically increase your chances of mission accomplishment i.e. “Panty Droppage”.   Recognizability got high points because you have to be a fool to not see where you should go to talk to women in Roppongi.  Unlike Ebisu for example, the girls in Roppongi are there to PARTY.  They want to drink, have men buy them drinks and then probably chug some cock. The signs are easily Recognizable.

Again in this case, Model Based decision-making and its results run against many a seasoned J-girl hunters instincts.  Many men here, very driven PUA (pick up artist) avoid Roppongi like the plague but most of these motivations come from emotional responses or personal biases.  If those are fairly well removed its clear Roppongi is the place to go.

Read part 2 here.

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June 23, 2010

How to become big in Japan

Posted by yosomono under How To | Tags: , , , , |
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Big in Japan
Japan TV is obsessed with TV reenactments.  A lot of them are Japanese historical pieces but quite a few are foreign historical dramas.  Since Japan is almost exclusively of Japanese stock there is always a demand for  foreign extras and characters to play the these parts.

Now you’re probably thinking “I don’t know how to do a blue steel look!”.  Well it doesn’t matter what you look like! The people that get the most work are over 50 because most people in the industry are 20 something and everyone over 50 in Japan is a banker or something. They want all sizes, it doesn’t matter what you look like.

It can be an interesting job but while gigs pay well, you’re not going to make lots of money off it.  Two main obstacles block the money train:

A)  Japanese talent agencies; Japanese agencies have a stranglehold on the entertainment industry and unlike the West where the agent works for the talent here in Japan the talent work for the agencies.  They take anywhere from 50-90% of the money the studios pay, if they pay you at all.  They even scam the audition process bringing as many people as possible as they are paid per person, money you will never receive.

B)  Supply and demand;  Economics would dictate that a lack of foreign faces would allow model/extra workers to demand a bigger share but to the Japanese all foreign faces look the same and there are always new people who are willing to work for very little just to be part of the process.

There are two type of jobs the bread and bacon extra work and the commercial headline jobs.  The extra work is you just being a foreign face in the background and that pays around 15,000YEN a day.  Headline jobs are when you are the main face and they will pay around the 150,000YEN range depending on the length of the spot, face time, etc…

It is possible to make money doing talent work but there is the start up issue.  Most agencies have at least a 2 month waiting period to get paid.  Some don’t pay out for as long as six months.  So for the first few months its necessary to have some saving or zero costs and someone supporting you.   Then there will be times were you won’t get any work and then when you do you have to wait for a couple months to get paid.  Vicious cycle.

While there isn’t much money its not like you’re expected to do any work.  Most jobs just have you wait the whole day for a few minutes work.  I just did a role where I was a Russian soldier during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion.  They shipped me up to the country put me in a hotel and then the next day I spent 7:00AM to 4:00 PM waiting around in costume with about 20 other soldiers.  My scene took about 5min to shoot and then we went home.  It goes the other way too I’ve also been on other jobs where I get paid the same fee as everybody but I arrive at 9:00AM and then at 9:30AM I could go home.  If you have a lot of free time there are a lot of travel jobs too.  To get around expensive American labour laws, where they actually pay the actor a decent salary, Japanese studios ship out people to Hawaii or America to film a commercial or drama.

There are a number of number of agencies in Japan including:

GroupEcho

While GroupEcho has some commercial work they mostly specialize in movie extra jobs.  Think occupying American soldiers who brutalize a poor Japanese population.

Contact is Hikaru at:
http://www11.ocn.ne.jp/~echos/
grpecho-tokyo@celery.ocn.ne.jp or
Hikaru (03-6804-7677)
22-15,3Chome Adachi,Adachi-ku,Tokyo,Japan 120-0015

Echoes

Confusing as they agency sounds like Group Echo but they are two different companies.

http://www.echoes-tokyo.com/index.html

Email: office@echoes-tokyo.com
Phone Number: 03 5457 3544

Address:東京都渋谷区宇田川町6-15　フジハウス102

IMO

TEL ：03-3405-0425
http://www.inagawamotoko.com/bosyubox/bosyu.html

IMO is infamous in the extra community as they are a dirty, dirty agency who will not pay you unless you are on their case ALL the time.  They are one of the oldest and supposedly have deep Yakuza contacts.  They have a core group of talent that they treat well and send to all their other jobs but when they need more faces they send out a bunch of new people and then don’t pay them.  These new people eventually get angry or give up which isn’t a problem because there is always a new sucker.

The thing is they have lots of work and as long as you keep meticulous records they will eventually pay you but you’ll have to fight for it.  To show how shady they are they refuse to email or text you any information and do all their communication over the phone so that there is no record of anything they say.

Nishi Azabu 1-6-6
Take exit 2 from the Hibya Roppongi Station.  Walk straight down the
street and past one light.
Eventually you will see a blue building called the A-Life building
turn right after the building.
Walk down the side street and on the right you will see a building
with a tree in front and huge
dog in the garage.

Avocado

A lot of agency startups are actual IMO staff you have had enough of jerking around their models and set off on their own.  Avocado is one of these companies whose owners used to work for IMO.  There are now a highly respectable company doing it right.  Another start-up from former IMO staff is ECHO.  Not to be confused with Group Echo.

#401 6-33-7 JINGUMAE
SHIBUYA　TOKYO
JAPAN
TEL 03-5778-3141
FAX 03-5778-6086
info@avocado.co.jp
http://www.avocado.co.jp/

Junes

JUNES Inc.
〒 150-0001
3-40-3 JS bld. , Shibuya ku, Jingu mae, Tokyo Japan
Nearest station : Gaien mae sta. (Sub. Ginza Line)  5 min. walk

TEL: 03-6447-1383
FAX: 03-3405-8538
Registration is basically every Monday through Thursday /start
from12:45 or 16:00.
http://www.junes.co.jp/html/englishmenu.html
asap@junes.co.jp

DXIM Miyazaki Bldg. #305

Address:
Miyazaki Bldg. #305
6-28-5 Jingu-mae Shibuya-ku,
Tokyo 150-0001 Japan.
el: [+81]3-3407-6505
e-mail: web@dxim.biz
http://www.dxim.biz/en/print/

K&M

inter3@kmpro.co.jp
http://www.kmpro.co.jp/
〒150-0001 東京都渋谷区神宮前3-40-2
3-40-2, jingumae.shibuya-ku Tokyo.
TEL ：03-3404-9429

Freewave

In November of 2011 Freewave was hit by a scandal when one of its talent was arrested falsifying their VISA.  It was through no fault of their own but since then they are very strict about who they will put on their books only choosing those with impeccable VISA status.

http://www.f-w.co.jp/e/mape.html
freewave@kt.rim.or.jp or info@f-w.co.jp
NK Bldg 1F 3-19-10 Ikejiri Setagaya-ku Tokyo, 154-0001
Phone Number: 03-6453-2744
Fax Number: 03-6453-2743

Lazaris

Lazaris is a pretty cool place and Hiro, one of the gaijin herders, is a nice guy.

http://www.lazaris-net.com/english.html
To get registered, please contact them at 03-5775-6125
They only take appointments by phone call on first come and first-served basis.
The registration hours are from 12:00 to 18:00, Monday through Friday.
info@lazaris-net.com

R & A

Walking into the place is like walking into Sopranos.  These guys may not look like agents but they can give you some good jobs.
0357716101
randa@thane.co.jp

in Gaiemmae

Right Beside K&M agency

ISOP

ISOP are notorious for being … well crazy. Ever since Steve left no one there seems to have a handle on just what is going on with their talent. Often they just send their whole talent pool to every job. So you take the time to go to their auditions but then find out as a white man that you were sent to an audition for Chinese speaking children. It has happened before. But they do get a lot of work and with a small staff ,while they are crazy, they give you individual attention. But most of their jobs are also sent out to other agencies. When I get a call from ISOP I just ignore it and wait for another agency to call me about the same job. If no one calls then I return the ISOP call.

Isop Company Ltd
Imperial, Room 317 Chiyoda Line All ages
Akasaka, Ichibankan Nogizaka Registration Fee: None
8-13-19 Akasaka (7 min. walk)
Minato-ku, Tokyo 107
Phone: 03-3405-7151
Fax: 03-3405-6704

Zenith

0354117747
info@zenithinc.jp in harajuku
ZENITH INC. multi-management
TEL 03-5411-7747      FAX03-5411-2527
e-mail: info@zenithinc.jp
URL: http://www.zenithinc.jp/
1-19-13-402 JINGUMAE  SHIBUYA-KU
TOKYO JAPAN  ZIP 150-0001

REMIX

souda@remix-model.co.jp
These guys are who handled the Softbank commercial
http://www.remix-model.co.jp/index.html

UPDATE – November 2011 – Victoria is MIA and is probably defunct

Victoria Star Promotion Co., Ltd.

Daiichi-SS Bldg. 10-C, 4-12-20
Hatchobori, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0032
Tel: 03-3297-7772, Fax: 03-3297-7773
Email: vsp@v-s-p.net
http://www.v-s-p.net/

Bay Side

http://www.bay-side.biz/en-model/
Softtown Negishi Nibankan 604, 18-32
Higashicho, Isogoku
Yokohama, Kanagawa
235-0005
Tel：045-755-2127　Fax：045-353-9755
Mail：info@bay-side.biz

E Promotions

http://www.epromotion.co.jp/contact/index.html
Phone :         03-3784-9851
e-Mail :        info@epromotion.co.jp
Addess :        2-11-9-1F, Nishi-Nakanobu, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 142-0054

Angel17

http://www.angel17.com/en/wanted

Phone :         03-5411-7767

e-Mail :        agency@angel17.com
Addess :      3-15-22-1F NISHIAZABU MINATOKU TOKYO 160-0031 JAPAN

What to bring to the agency

The agency will most likely ask for you to have your gaijin card so they can check your VISA status. You should also bring some good pictures of yourself. Pictures where you are the only person in the shot preferably with a white background. When you go to the agency they will take additional pictures so dress to impress and be early!

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