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Tuesday, June 20, 2006

a different kind of WC fever

I applaud the overall playfulness of this translated article.

Love hotels letting Japanese use ball handling skills during World Cup
Japan's World Cup campaign may have got off to a disastrous start against Australia on June 12, but Shukan Shincho (6/22) reports the soccer extravaganza made the same night a bountiful one for love hotel operators as Japanese put their ball handling and dribbling skills to use off the pitch.

Part of the appeal of love hotels as choices for viewing the game came because they have now largely shed the rotating bed and wall and ceiling mirror image they once had in favor of becoming havens of cutting edge video technology.

"Just about everywhere is pretty gorgeous," the editor of a magazine devoted to adult entertainment services tells Shukan Shincho. "Of course, love hotel rooms now nearly all have large screen plasma TVs, karaoke functions and 5.1 surround stereo sound systems. There's now nothing special about TVs built into rooms with Jacuzzis in them as well."

No longer mere bonk bastions, love hotels have become hot spots for people to belt out a tune or watch a movie with a sound system every bit as good as a theater could produce. And the World Cup is helping spread the image of love hotels as places to enjoy some fine sounds. (read the rest)

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