No-pan kissa

A no-pan kissa (Japanese: ノーパン喫茶, Hepburn: Nōpan kissa; pronounced [noːpaŋ kiꜜssa], lit. 'no-panties cafés') is an establishment in Japan that offers food and drinks served by waitresses wearing short skirts with no underwear. The floors, or sections of the floor, are sometimes mirrored.[1] Shops generally operate under a "no-touch" policy.[2] The shops otherwise look like normal coffee shops (kissaten), rather than sexual establishments, although they charge a premium price for the coffee.[1]

History

The first one to open was in Osaka in 1980.[3] Initially, all of them were in remote areas outside the traditional entertainment districts. Within a year, large numbers had opened in many more places, such as major railway stations.[4]

In the 1980s (the peak of the boom in these shops), many started to have topless or bottomless waitresses.[5] However, at this point, the number of such shops started to decline rapidly.[1]

The New Amusement Business Control and Improvement Act came into force on February 13, 1985, which further restricted the sex industry and protected the more traditional businesses.[6] Eventually, such coffee shops gave way to fashion health (massage) clubs and few no-pan kissa, if any, remain.[1]

In addition to no-pan kissa, there has also been no-pan shabu-shabu[7] and no-pan karaoke.[2][8] In 1998, four officials at the Ministry of Finance were arrested and 112 were disciplined for accepting bribes in the form of visits to a no-pan shabu-shabu restaurant in Shinjuku.[9]

See also

References

Citations
  1. ^ a b c d "No-Pan Kissa (No-Panty Cafes)". Japan for the Uninvited. 23 June 2006. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
  2. ^ a b Allison, Anne (1994). Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club. University of Chicago Press. pp. 131–132. ISBN 978-0-226-01487-6.
  3. ^ Buruma, Ian (1984). Behind the Mask: On Sexual Demons, Sacred Mothers, Transvestites, Gangsters, Drifters and Other Japanese Cultural Heroes. Pantheon Books. p. 111. ISBN 978-0-394-53775-7.
  4. ^ Bestor, Theodore C. (1989). Neighborhood Tokyo. Studies of the East Asian Institute. Stanford University Press. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-8047-1797-7.
  5. ^ Anahori, Tadashi (1 February 2017). "Revisit the Retro Glory of Japan's 1980s No-Pan Kissa (No-Panties Cafes) | Tokyo Kinky Sex, Erotic and Adult Japan". www.tokyokinky.com. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
  6. ^ Suei, Akira (1990). "Araki – Tokyo Lucky Hole". Michael Hoppen Gallery. Archived from the original on 23 September 2018. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
  7. ^ "Ministry Officials 'Demanded' Sex Club Entertainment". New Sunday Times. 28 January 1998. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  8. ^ Allison, Anne (2000). Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan. University of California Press. p. 170. ISBN 978-0-520-21990-8.
  9. ^ "Entertainment at Lurid Shabu-Shabu Establishment Got Bankers, Bureaucrats in Hot Water". Japan Today. 31 December 2018. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
Further reading
  • Suei, Akira (2005). "The Lucky Hole as the Black Hole". In Araki, Nobuyoshi (ed.). Tokyo Lucky Hole. Köln: Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8228-4681-0.
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