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Director Fernando Souza explores the intersections between self-realization and self-destruction in Tokyo's host clubsThe host clubs of Tokyo's red-light di

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have self-esteem issues. In this society, women still feel like they are 2/4. ... Citation: Book examines commodification of feelings, love in Tokyo's host clubs (2016, March 7) retrieved 25 June

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Inside Tokyo's host clubs and the interplay between self-realization and self-destruction

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Chapter 1, 'The consumable city', situates host clubs within Tokyo's 'affective cityscape' (p. 21). ... to 'polish' the self and seduce hosts, these women are, in some ways

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The first host club was located in Yaesu train exit in Tokyo in. 1966, and was kept private to the public (Takeyama 2005). This first host club was called Night. Tokyo and employed over one hundred hosts (Prideaux 2006). The guests consisted of hostesses, yakuza wives and sex workers.

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Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club. By Akiko Takeyama. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2016. xvii, 225 pages. $80.00, cloth; $22.95, paper. In September 2004, Akiko Takeyama walked into Kabukicho, Tokyo's red-light district, and experienced firsthand the district's (in)famous hosts and their aggressive flirtation.

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Young urban migrants in the Japanese countryside between self-realization and slow life? The quest for subjective well-being and post-materialism By Susanne Klien. ... ABSTRACT "Quite a lot of the things available in Tokyo seem unnecessary now after moving here—I don't think I needed all that stuff."

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Publisher's summary. In the host clubs of Tokyo's Kabuki-cho red-light district, ambitious young men seek their fortunes by selling love, romance, companionship, and sometimes sex to female consumers for exorbitant sums of money. Staged Seduction reveals a world where all intimacies and feigned feelings are fair game for the hosts who employ

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Explore the intersections between self-realization and self-destruction in Tokyo's host clubs

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Director Fernando Souza explores the intersections between self-realization and self-destruction in Tokyo's host clubsThe host clubs of Tokyo's

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In the host clubs of Tokyo's Kabuki-chō red-light district, ambitious young men seek their fortunes by selling love, romance, companionship, and sometimes sex to female consumers for exorbitant sums of money. Staged Seduction reveals a world where all intimacies and feigned feelings are fair game for the hosts who employ feathered bangs, polished nails, fine European suits, and the

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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute is a broad-scope anthropology journal covering social, linguistic and biological anthropology, and archaeology.

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Over the past ten years, Takeyama has gone underground in Tokyo's red-light districts to study the dynamics of Japanese hosting as part of her new book, Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo

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TOKYO -- Host clubs in Tokyo's Kabukicho entertainment district will end a widely practiced system of running up tabs for female patrons at their establishments by next April, it was announced on

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IN A TOKYO HOST CLUB BY AKIKO TAKEYAMA B.A., University of Oregon, 1999 M.A., University of Oregon, 2001 DISSERTATION Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements ... hopes, dreams, and self-motivations to satisfy both their own and national interests. In turn, I theorize seduction as a form of power that entails suggestive speech and

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The Art of Seduction and Affect Economy: Neoliberal Class Struggle and Gender Politics in a Tokyo Host Club; ... and self-motivations to satisfy both their own and national interests. In turn, I theorize seduction as a form of power that entails suggestive speech and bodily acts to entice the other person(s) into acting for both the seducer's

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The university years (roughly between the ages of eighteen and twentytwo) are a time for youth to relax a little aft er the rigors of high school education and before the demands of adult working

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"Individuation means becoming a single, homogeneous being, and, in so far as 'individuality' embraces our innermost, last, and incomparable uniqueness, it also implies becoming one's own self. We could therefore translate individuation as… 'self-realization.'" (Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Volume 7, Carl Jung ) In this second video in our mini-series on the ideas of

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Takeyama, whose research interests include the commercialization of feelings, emotions and romantic relationships, said the dynamic surrounding the popularity of host clubs in Japan is partially a

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Background of Host Clubs First, I am going to explain a little bit about what a host club is and who are the so-called hosts and their clients. First of all, host clubs are not new. The first host club opened in Tokyo in 1966, but it mainly targeted upper-class matrons, wives of company executives, wealthy widows and so forth.

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misunderstanding about the original idea of self-realization. In other words, some theoretical problems were immanent in his theory of self-realization. At first, the notion of the self, which is to be realized, is described abstractly and, thereby, remains very vague. As is popularly considered, the self appears to be identified with an

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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), adolescence refers to the period between the ages of 12 and 20. This period is characterized by significant physical, sexual, and psychological changes and is a critical phase of social and emotional development (Ross et al., Citation 2019).Adolescence represents a period of increased risk to health and can compromise the successful resolution

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The intricate dance between these traits and the individuation process is dynamic and nuanced, marked by the unique interplay of an individual's temperament, life experiences, and the unfolding