Kath is agog as From The Hip deep dives into hostessing in Japan with our first international guest.

Dhana Musil, a former gaijin hostess who Mish met at an improv class in Osaka in 1996, is now a writer and living back in her birthland of Canada.

This episode is about living in the night.

It's also about making shitloads of money during the hedonistic economic bubble in Japan.

A world of allure and illusion...

Tokyo Girls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRgmW3gjdu8

The Vanished: The "Evaporated People" of Japan in Stories and Photographs
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28695789-the-vanished https://galleries.page.link/PGiYs

From Dhana…’This is hands down the best book on Japan I have ever read. It's not about hostessing per se, but it gives a wide overarching view of the society, including sexual harassment, hostessing and yakuza.' 

From the Japanese: A Journalist in the Empire of the Resigned
 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2303603.From_the_Japanese