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On the second floor of the press center, where the booths of the Olympic committees of the countries participating in the Games are, there is an old man working as a security guard.
Kosaka Takaaki
is called according to her identification.
He's a very nice gentleman, until the reporters start snooping where they shouldn't and Kosaka gets pissed off and starts cursing in Japanese.
The man, assuming the wrinkles and bags under his eyes are not misleading, is well over 65, the retirement age in Japan for those who have contributed at least 25 years.
Every few minutes, after the reconnaissance walk through her section of the second floor, Kosaka sits down to rest, staring at the ground, as if disconnecting without closing her eyelids from what is happening around her.
Kosaka is not the only one in his family working on the Olympic operation.
She has a nephew who has been a model in a couple of announcements about the Games before they started.
These days he can be found moving around with the team that organizes the logistics of the buses that take the journalists to the headquarters.
We are going to call our nephew
Yuki
.
It is not his real name but it is the one that appears on the page of the modeling agency that put him to work before the pandemic in a host club in Kabukicho, the red light district of Tokyo.
Kabukicho was a historic area of gambling halls, restaurants and nightclubs until in the late 80s, the yakuza, the Japanese mafia, got their hands in the neighborhood to transform some of these businesses into places of worship to enjoy more carnal pleasures that will combine with the taste for drink and good food.
Then the host and hostess clubs appeared.
Places where customers, men and women, pay to get drunk with the company and fooling around of another person, beautiful and with a good guy, of the opposite sex.
The night does not have to end in a more intimate meeting if the host or hostess does not want to.
Yuki made a living entertaining clients and encouraging them to spend a lot of money at his club.
Because some wealthy Japanese women leave large sums of yen with male hosts in exchange for a night of good champagne conversation, flirting, and often sex.
"Japanese men are not very attentive and do not show their feelings, but the hosts treat you like a princess.
I want to be pampered and I do not care how much it costs,
" replied the client of one of these clubs in a report published a couple ago years by the AFP agency.
The arrival of the pandemic and the four states of emergency decreed by the Japanese Government in Tokyo, put these nightclubs in Tokyo in check.
Now, with the dry law that all bars are closed after 8:00 p.m., the host businesses have disappeared.
For the moment.
Because they will return when everything returns to normal.
Yuki is now looking for a life working in the Olympic Games, which have been a
good job opportunity for many young people unemployed from the pandemic
who, like the host, earn a good salary until the Japanese night returns to its full splendor.
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