I was in Japan for a month, the guest of my friend Toshi and his family. I had first met him when he was living out here briefly a few years ago, and we’d kept in touch since then. He’d been trying to persuade me to visit Japan for ages, and when I found myself temporarily between jobs, it seemed like a good time to go.
The night after I arrived, Toshi took me to a nightclub in Tokyo. We were supposed to meet up with his sister and some of her friends there, but due to a mix-up they didn’t appear. We left shortly after midnight, having failed to pick up any girls.
Toshi lived in a suburb about half an hour from Shinjuku, and we caught a train back. We got onto an almost empty carriage (stories about Japanese trains always being massively overcrowded are exaggerated) and sat down. Toshi nudged me in the arm. "Ah, look – drunk girl!" he said excitedly, pointing to an office girl who had boarded the train with us. She was sitting on the opposite seat, her head lolling to one side, her eyes closed. The only other passenger in the carriage was a middle-aged salaryman. He seemed to be dozing off as well.
"Come on, let’s see what happen," said Toshi, standing up. He sat next to the girl, and motioned for me to sit on the other side of her. She looked to be in her early twenties, and was very smartly dressed. She wore a dark green jacket over a crisp white blouse, a short black skirt and shiny black shoes. In one hand she clutched an expensive brand-name handbag. With her head hanging down her face was mostly obscured by her long, glossy black hair, but I could see she was very pretty, with a full, red mouth.
Toshi sat up real close to her and said something into her ear, but got no response. He put his arm around her and, grinning wickedly at me, slid his hand under her jacket and felt her breasts. The girl stirred slightly, but her eyes remained closed.
Toshi, growing bolder, slipped his hand between the girl’s legs. As he did so, it was my turn to feel her tits. I undid one of the buttons of her blouse and managed to slide my fingers into one of her bra cups – it was made of a thin, stretchy material - so that I could feel her beady little nipple. As with most Japanese girls her tits were quite small, but they felt nice.
At this point I looked up and saw that the salaryman was watching us. He had a briefcase on his lap, and I saw that it was moving up and down slightly. He had his hands underneath it. He was wanking! Toshi saw it too. We decided to give the guy a show.
Toshi pushed the girl’s skirt up above her hips, then taking hold of her left leg by the knee, pulled it back and hooked it over his own. I did the same with her right leg. It brought her forward in the seat a little and her head fell back against the window. She was now sitting with her legs apart, her white panties showing. Then Toshi took hold of the gusset and pulled it aside, exposing her cunt. I looked down and caught a glimpse of brownish red labia in the spiky black mass of her pubic hair.
The salary man’s eyes narrowed as he stared at the cunt. The briefcase began to move up and down more quickly.
The girl opened her eyes.
She stared glassily at the ceiling, before looking at Toshi, then at me. Meanwhile we had let her legs fall again. I thought she was going to freak out but she didn’t. Instead she drew her knees together and pushed her skirt down.
Toshi said something to her in Japanese and she answered, her voice a bit groggy. To my surprise they started to have a conversation which lasted about five minutes. Maybe she was so drunk she didn’t realise we’d been feeling her up. I could tell he was trying to persuade her about something. Then he turned to me. "This is Keiko," he said. I said hello.
"What where you talking about?" I asked him.
"She lives just near me," he said. "I invited her to a bar with us, and she said she’ll come."
"What bar?"
"My friend’s. You’ll see."
We got off the train a couple of stops later. Toshi put Keiko’s handbag over her shoulder – she was more worried about losing it than anything else - and we helped her up and out of the train. She was staggering a bit at first, but seemed to sober up after that.
We led the girl through some winding streets. Toshi’s suburb was amazingly quiet despite its proximity to the city. There were hardly any cars – most of the locals rode bicycles – so it felt more like a village. After a few minutes we came to a short strip of little bars and restaurants crowded in together, most of them still open, then turned down another street until we stopped at a house. It was dark inside. Toshi knocked on the door, and when that got no answer, started calling out.
A window on the second floor opened and a round, bald head poked out of it. Toshi said something, and the bald man replied. He seemed to think for a moment, then disappeared back inside and the window shut.
A minute later, the lights came on downstairs and the front door opened. The bald man, who wore a lemon yellow robe with Japanese characters on it, ushered us into a smallish room. It had a bar at one end which could seat four people in a pinch, a few stools, a fish tank, a sound system and not much else. Toshi had earlier explained to me that there were no liquor licences in Japan, and anyone could set up a bar anywhere they liked. Some people chose to run bars like this in their homes, more as a hobby than to make any money.
Toshi introduced me to the bald man, whose name was Shiguro He bowed deeply, then began to scrabble around on the floor, putting plugs into power points and turning on multicoloured lights which were strung around the room. A boy had appeared from somewhere, and Shiguro sent him off to get some alcohol. He returned a few minutes later with a keg of beer balanced on the handlebars of his bike. Shiguro handed him some money and he disappeared again. Meanwhile another guy, wearing a red bandanna on his head, had arrived at the bar. I asked Toshi who he was and he said, "Oh, he’s the DJ." The DJ went behind the bar and put on some techno music.
Toshi helped the girl out of her coat, which he hung behind the door, while Shiguro mixed a drink for her – I’m not sure what it was but it looked quite lethal. Then he hooked up the keg and poured beers for the rest of us.
Toshi was dancing with Keiko now on what passed for the dance floor in this tiny space. She was knocking back the drink and he began to kiss her. He untucked her blouse from her skirt and wrapped his arms around her. She began to dance more wildly, flinging her arms up into the air. Shiguro and I watched from the bar, sipping our beers.
The DJ put on another, heavier track and the girl span around, then tripped and fell against the bar, dragging Toshi with her and knocking a stool over. Toshi managed to hold her up and propped her against the bar. Her white blouse, damp with sweat, had fallen almost completely open. Toshi pulled it off and threw it over the bar. He whispered something into her ear and she shook her head. He remonstrated with her. Shiguro joined in, and then they both began to chant something at her, laughing at the same time.
The music was very loud. The girl was swaying to it. She tottered over to the ‘dance floor’ again. She was skinny, and in her white bra and short black skirt she looked like a gawky adolescent. Reaching behind her back she unhooked the bra, slid it off and tossed it aside with what was meant to be a flourish. She cupped he little tits in her hands. Toshi and Shiguro clapped and cheered.