Note: Satire.
There are a lot of guides and information available on how to pick up Japanese women, such as through ナンパ (nanpa) or 合コン (gokon), but today we focus on how not to pick up Japanese women. In other words, what pitfalls should we avoid while trying to woo the Japanese ladies?
Luckily for us, Lovesick Japan, which I continue to happily read, offers a good case example from which we can draw common mistakes. Let us carefully read through and take note of what went wrong. To begin:
The defendant broke into a twenty-seven-year-old woman’s apartment at 1:30 in the morning.
Mistake 1: Meeting for the first time in an improper place
Although it is admirable that the defendant tried a direct approach to meeting his future mate, we see here the common pitfall of being too direct. One’s home is typically considered a private place, and therefore women will be less open to being approached by strangers while at home compared to say a club or dating-centered social gathering—where they expect to be approached. Instead, the defendant should have considered a more public area to approach the women and exercised his day game, perhaps by meeting her in a public park or at a Starbucks.
Furthermore, 1:30 in the morning is often a time when people are asleep; perhaps when the woman was eating lunch—such as in the early or mid-afternoon—would have been a better time for a meeting.
Let us continue:
He put her hand his hand over her mouth and pinned her down. He told her to be quiet and began touching her breasts as he tried to remove her clothes. She resisted strongly, flailing her arms and legs. He continued to threaten her, and she saw no escape.
Mistake 2: Moving too quickly
Japanese women like to know if a potential boyfriend or husband will be able to take care of them—as society in Japan is still very much patriarchal—and as a result, moving a bit slower compared to western women may be necessary as a general rule of thumb.
Here we see that the defendant moved much too quickly, by initiating kino (touching) almost immediately in sensitive areas such as the mouth and breasts. Putting aside the fact the defendant should have talked to the woman before meeting her, he should have also moved slower with regards to touch, such as starting with casual touches on the arms on back, and moving on from there. In other words, the man’s physical progression skills were rather weak.
Continuing:
The defendant told the victim, “Take off your clothes” and attempted to pull them off. The victim thought that she should do everything possible to avoid rape and that he would leave her alone if she could satisfy his sexual hunger by causing him to ejaculate. She removed her pajama top only, keeping her t-shirt on. She then manually stimulated the defendant’s penis and performed oral sex on him.
Mistake 3: Failing to establish comfort before moving to seduction
By comfort, I mean actually getting to know the person you are trying to get with. This includes things such as her job, her hobbies, or her name. The comfort phase, as it is called, should not last long, but should allow the man and woman to get to know each other in some respect, perhaps with flirty teasing mixed in.
Instead, the only things the man appears to have said to the woman are “be quiet” and “take off your clothes,” both of which are not particularly revealing about oneself, nor are they especially flirtatious. Furthermore, by using them the man fails to demonstrate higher value, or qualities about himself that a woman might actually find attractive.
After performing oral sex:
The defendant became tired, lost his erection without ejaculating, and he lay on the fouton next to the victim. he talked about himself to the victim, and in order to prevent him from harming her, she pretended to empathize with him and talked to and listened to him. During that time, the defendant touched the victim’s nipple through her t-shirt and said things like “I’m really into making nipples erect.”
Mistake 4: Talking too much
Here we have a classic example of the guy going on and on about himself, not giving the girl any chance to respond or feel like she’s part of a conversation. Men have a tendency to talk too much, and to make things worse, after going on and on about all his problems to the victim, the defendant moved right back into demanding sex.
Although “being a good listener” is perhaps somewhat corny advice to give males who want to pick up Japanese women, the man should try to show interest in the woman he is trying to pick up too! After all, attraction should be a two-way street. The defendant’s failure to qualify the victim, or listen to and find out about her interests and problems, clearly indicates a mistake on his part.
And finally we come to the end of the encounter:
The victim wanted to do anything she could to get the defendant to leave. She said, “If you see it, will you go home?” He agreed, and she once again removed her shorts and put her genitals in his face. The defendant licked her genitals and looked at them using the light of his cell phone. After that, the defendant received the victim’s cell phone number and left around 4:30 in the morning.
Three hours had passed. A few days later, he called to ask her out on a date to see a fireworks show. She agreed, he kept the date, and police arrested him.
Mistake 5: Getting a girl’s phone number at the end of a date
Getting a girl’s phone number at the end of the date generally indicates weakness or lack of self-confidence, similar to how making kissing at the end of a date is also a weak move. Instead, the defendant should have successfully time bridged, or casually mentioned interesting things he has going on in his life, and then asked for the number. After which he should casually continued the conversation as if getting the number were just one mere part of the interaction, rather than its goal.
By failing to establish proper emotional progression, the defendant failed to portray himself in the most positive light possible, and therefore failed to come up with a second date.
I hope these quick tips help you the next time you decide to try to pick up women in Japan. In fact, I’ll even throw in one more bonus tip!
Mistake 6: Breaking into a girl’s home and raping her does not generally lead to a second date.
This should be self-explanatory. Unfortunately, the defendant did not seem to know this—perhaps he should have read this guide first!
EAS Student 