• part of the mizu shōbai; though they are not sex workers, geisha and kabuki actors are traditionally considered part of the mizu shōbai as well.[page needed]...
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  • staff attend to women. Host and hostess clubs are considered part of mizu shōbai (literally "water trade"), the night-time entertainment business in Japan...
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    (売買春/買売春) A combination of baishun and kai/baishun; meaning "prostitution". Mizu shōbai (水商売) Literally the "water trade"; a wider term covering the entire entertainment...
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    and major companies (e.g., those listed in Nikkei 225). Workers in the mizu shōbai (nightlife) and entertainment industries (including actors and singers)...
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    training through one specific teahouse, referred to as the minarai-jaya. Mizu shōbai (水商売, lit. 'water business') A euphemistic term for the entertainment...
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  • counterpart, there are many retail shops, izakaya, restaurants, and mizu shōbai establishments like host and hostess clubs, soaplands, and nightclubs...
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    soaplands and other façades for sexual services. People involved in mizu shōbai (水商売, "the water trade") would include hōkan (comedians), kabuki actors...
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  • debuted a new fashion brand, Minimus. In May 2022, he became the first mizu shōbai worker to make an official appearance with Sanrio character My Melody...
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  • of the found footage genre. Other 16 mm films would follow, such as Mizu Shobai (Water Business) (1993), Stranger Baby (1995), and Almost the Cocktail...
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  • bōsōzoku nightclubs, bars, restaurants, etc. (lit. "water business") mizu shōbai outcasts (by birth) burakumin peddlers, street stall operators tekiya...
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    essay published in The Atlantic. Coffee portal Breastaurant Hooters Mizu shōbai Amy Roe (January 22, 2007). "Some coffee stands get steamier". The Seattle...
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    kōsai Happening bar Hentai Herbivore men Love hotel Marriage in Japan Mizu shōbai Nanpa Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a...
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  • Murozumi, and is set in a fictional trade-school—that focuses on the mizu shōbai—located in the Kabukichō district of Shinjuku, Tokyo. The school's focus...
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  • prostitutes Kagema Onsen geisha Oiran Other Enjo kōsai JK Karayuki-san Mizu shōbai Mizuage Recreation and Amusement Association Sex trafficking Sumata Telekura...
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    of the Taira clan. The Tokyo Suiten-gū is also known as a patron of Mizu shōbai workers. Kurume Suitengū in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture Suitengū (Tokyo)...
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  • find a way to honor her adoptive grandfather's wish, she applied for Mizu shōbai and it was very profitable. But one fateful night, she was being accused...
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  • an informal name for the genitourinary system (especially in Britain) Mizu shōbai, a euphemism for the night-time entertainment business in Japan, typically...
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  • into Japanese language, family relations, love rites, shodo and the Mizu shōbai itself — the ‘water trade’ — a seedy night-world of cabarets, bars and...
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  • Jonosuke sacrificed himself to destroy Gousan. Saori (サオリ) Saori is a busty mizu shobai girl who works in Neo-Kabukichō and also owes Junior money because of...
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  • Lesson 224. "Women who turn tricks are not to be trusted" (水商売の女は信するな, "Mizu Shōbai no On'na wa Shin Suru na") Lesson 225. "Burning a perm doesn't change...
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  • release featured a bonus track: a trip rock remix "The Sadness of Men" (Mizu Shōbai Mix). The band entered York Street Studio on 13 January 2012 to start...
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  • Daphne in the Brilliant Blue (Japanese: 光と水のダフネ, Hepburn: Hikari to Mizu no Dafune, lit. "Daphne of Light and Water") is a Japanese anime television series...
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    Breakdown (ブレイクダウン, 1995) Professional Swordsmen of the Edo Era (剣客商売, Kenkyaku Shōbai, 1998–1999) (manga adaptation) Shikake Jin Fujieda Baian (仕掛人 藤枝梅安, 2002–2016)...
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  • (Japanese: つるのおみやげ) "Gosuke-don's Business" Transliteration: "Gosuke-don no shōbai" (Japanese: 五助どんの商売) A man goes to an undersea palace (this tale is a second...
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  • 25 "Business flourishing! Help at the house of sea" Transliteration: "Shōbai Hanjō! Umi no Ie no Otetsudai" (Japanese: 商売繁盛! 海の家のお手伝い) July 30, 2006 (2006-07-30)...
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