Hotel in the red strips off the pink to surviveMay 24, 2004 / WaiWai Mainichi Daily newsWhen Japanese males head to the countryside for a weekend of soaking in onsen (hot springs), it's a given that their morals tend to get shed along with their clothing. This has become even easier at the rough-and-ready Kinugawa Onsen, Tochigi Prefecture...
.....According to police charges, the five had allegedly commissioned a Brazilian stripper to bump and grind for 20-minute performances in the 100-mat room on Friday and Saturday evenings, in what was billed as a "Pink Sexy Nude Show."
"The hotel was announcing the show via its PA system, and on billboards," says one of the arresting officers. "It charged 1,000 yen a head for admission. That made it a case of operating without a license, which was in violation of the public morals ordinance"....
The hotel group offers visitors a budget course of a relatively inexpensive 4,500 yen a head for an overnight stay with two meals.
