Land Of The Rising Sun.
Where gestures in business are everything.
My intrepidation and fear started rising when I was awakened by the plane slowing and starting its slow descent into Tokyo, my first visit and I would remain in Japan for over a year on an employee exchange program. A steward with an endearing smile, eye makeup on and an almost see-through shirt, a Wakashu Doseiaisha
{young gay friend}
, bowed greeting me with.
"Shi
{Mr.}
good morning I have something which will make your day."
My breakfast; after a fourteen hour flight I was ready for my first Japanese meal, in Japan. I was having doubts given my past why I ended up here.
I met Akiko as part of the employee exchange program within the nuclear industry, he worked for Toranaga Shipping a specialist shipping and contracting agent for Sumitomo Heavy Industries. What we did was ship nuclear fuel and irradiated nuclear fuel to and from Japan and to my fuel performance examination laboratories.
Akiko had been here for six months, being gay hadn't helped him making friends. That's why I was partnered with him, I think, anyway we got on so well he joined my social circle. We went to the local Pride festival together, in keeping went in colourful and evocative national dress. Actively we joined in its carnival atmosphere over indulging in its ambiance and alcohol, that's where we became engrossed in each other.
My original plan was Akiko couch surf at my studio apartment over the weekend, the meaning of which was lost in translation. First night he asked 'can we sleep naked' from my Japanese culture course meant we should, hot night, no aircon, no duvet. I lay on the bed naked as he came over, kneeled over my legs and gave me a slow hand job as he looked seductively into my eyes. Didn't take long, before I was showing signs and body motions of pleasure, closing my eyes I had a euphoric climax over us.
From Japanese sex culture videos I knew I had to offer myself to him, facing me he engaged, it was genteel slow soft and so so tantalising as he started to undulate, my inner ecstasy and anticipations rising. Our body motion started to uncontrollably physically accelerate, my back arched as he climaxed, it's infilling and draining was euphotic.
Afterwards we slept even in the summer heat pressing on each other. Morning daylight woke us, silently we lay until I moved round to repeat last night. Akiko was more athletic than I ever was I countered his every twist and turn as we copulated. My lust climax was a volcanic demonstration of my feelings, exhausted we lay holding each other, as he asked.
"When was the first time you had sex, other than for pleasure?"
"I managed to get a job as a trainee waiter in a back street night club, its staff having a reputation of being amenable with the clientele. Also, they were the only ones who would give me a job because I was prepared to wear only their scanty white shorts and trainers uniform while working in a gay bar, being a bit of an exhibitionist I enjoyed it the attention and touching.
Keith one of my shift partner's wanted to get his own club striptease act, the thought of doing it really intrigued me. Club ran its own striptease dance classes, I joined with Keith. First lesson was you had to dance naked any inhibitions soon disappeared, I enjoyed it part of the deal was you had to do three free live club shows as payback.
After a few weeks serving drinks and being groped you sort of switched off to it. My first dance night Keith and I were to join a visiting dance troupe as extras, that didn't show. Entertainment Manager elected me to be the first act on, you are partially blinded by the stage lights all you see is shadows. In addition to the usual Friday night crowd their were two drunken stag parties. Slowly and seductively as I striped the crowd riotously cheer me on, my confidence hit a high when they started to toss money on to the stage; which I would get to keep.
Keith was on next with his drag striptease routine, I may have wound them up but Keith's antics fired them into frenzy, they were screaming and banging the tables for more. I was standing in the wings watching with only a robe on when the Manager, signaled me to drop it and go on too.
We both danced naked and seductively together, we had spoof rehearsed as a bit of in-between classes fun, as a finally I leant over a stage prop, Keith started rubbing me simulating sex. Without warning improvised and started banging me for real. We had taken some 'stimulation' blues for our first night nerves and were high, I stood their frozen enjoying it as he went full tilt and climaxed. My first time while being watched and cheered on by a crowd standing on their seats and table surfing as they went wild.
Manager was unaware it was my first time, Keith he knew had been amenable with customers assumed I was too. Wanted, no insisted! we do a second show that night it was one of those clubs where saying no wasn't an option. They paid us for the shows and we could keep the money they threw on the stage, which was insane, particularly the following night which was also a celebration of an international Rugby win that afternoon. For that show I was decked out in the men's rugby kit Keith kited out in the local ladies short skirt rugby kit.
Mr. Cafferty the club owner came up from the city to see us. Offered Keith a full time job me a part time job set around my impending degree studies and he would pay my University fees, it was the only way I could afford University.
At University I still struggled to make ends meet Mr. Cafferty arranger for me and Keith to give favor's to some of his 'political' friends in addition to the weekend striptease and sexology dancing. I had to take out a registered stage name 'Orcadia' took more dance lessons and created a striptease sexology fan dance act, a take on 'Strip The Orcadian' which was very popular.
That's how I funded University, my final graduate training year was at a nuclear fuel plant for that I had to get security clearance, they cleared me that was a few years ago. Mr. Cafferty by that time had disappeared off the scene something to do with a Court case regarding his business interests and management style."
"What about you Akiko! have you ever had sex other than for pleasure?"
"Yes; like you I needed money to go to University Mr. Toranaga funded me, I had to become his Wakashu Doseiaisha
{gay friend}
, in payment of my debt. Mr. Toranaga is a good Sensei
{teacher}
he will like you."
"My Plant Director told me because of my past I would not be suitable for the employee exchange program in Tokyo."
"Not correct Mr. Toranaga looked into your past and insisted you join us in Tokyo for a year. After our EURATOM seminar on Monday I will take you to meet Mr. Toranaga, you will like him."
That afternoon we reviewed, on line, the Pride carnival that we seemed to play a visual part in. That afternoon was one of intense pleasure for us followed by an entheaustic night, in the morning we went to a EURATOM seminar.
Afterwards we went to meet Mr. Toranaga at his private Japanese Business Club, I didn't know what would be expected of us but suspected their would be a price, after Akiko introduced me to all the Club members Mr. Toranaga asked.
"Would you and Akiko do us the honour of performing your 'Strip The Orcadian' striptease fan dance act you performed at the Pride festival after party, for our Club members?"
Akiko had warned me we may be given a loyalty test; bowing in unison we said.
"Hai!
{yes}
"
Provided with traditional Japanese girl sailor fuku's
{outfits}
one blue one white, as nautical Japanese music played we enacted the dance which we had unveiled at the Pride festival after party. Club members applauded us.
This time we finished standing naked in front of the club members, the traditional Japanese dance ending. Mr. Toranaga presented us with cups strong rice wine with a Viagra type substance included. We were inaugurated as honored guests and presented as gifts to the two senior club members, both CEO's of two major Corporations. We joined them in their private chambers we were all honorably entheaustic.
Bump of the undercarriage lowering brought me back to reality, looking out of the window I could see the expanse of Tokyo bay and in the distance the snowcapped Mount Fuji as the morning sun burst above the skyline.
Passport Control passed, baggage recovered waiting for me was Akiko, my life in the 'Land Of The Rising Sun' had started. Luggage forwarded to my hotel, crowded express train took us into the heart of Tokyo's business district. We walked two blocks to the office this was my first daunting experience of the Japanese transport system and commuting, something I would have to adapt to.
Our office took up the entire eighth floor of a 30 story block, it had workstation pods one I would share with Akiko. We did introductions, each employee smiled and welcomed me, all wore name badges but I was having difficulty with name pronunciations as they did with mine, they sort of sang
Andre
.