PICKING UP WHERE WE LEFT OFF: That is all well and good, but where do you meet Russian girls when you are in Japan? Where can you pick them up? And what are Russian women like, once you start dating them? I am afraid I don't have personal experience to back this up, but from what I have seen and heard secondhand, it seems more likely that the Russian girls will approach you, if you are in the right time and place. Russian girls leave the Filipino girls for dead in their aggressive and manipulative approach to looking for a husband or boyfriend. (I hope that doesn't smack too much of racism!) You have to call a spade a spade, and as I have explored the world, I have found that (surprise surprise!) people in one country often have a completely different personality from the people in the country next door. Is it stereotypical or racist to say that Japanese people are quieter and more polite than Chinese people? It is an undeniable and obvious fact that Japanese people have mastered the art of politeness and respecting the other, while Chinese people often don't give a damn. That is not to infer that Chinese people are inferior, only different. And Russian women are different from all the other women of this wide beautiful world, that so much is plain. This website is an attempt to explain how different they are, using various sources. If anyone wants to disagree with me, I would happy to print their opinion online!

One case in point: in October 2004 a Russian woman who dropped in at my house to visit this Canadian guy (let's call him Jeremy) who I was living with at the time, and she told me a little of her background. She said she used to be married to a Japanese guy, but she got divorced. She was working as a hostess (because everyone wanted cute sexy Russian ladies, the Japanese being no exception), and she complained that the hostess business had taken a hit in recent years, due to the decline of the Japanese economy. She mentioned her visa was running out, and I figured she was kind of accessing her options. By the way, she came from Vladisvostok, which I thought was cool, because I have never met somebody from Siberia before. I figured she had come to Japan since it was in the neighborhood of Siberia and was a good place to come hunting for money. The grand irony was, although she wasn't particularly good looking, she thought she was pretty hot, and wasn't afraid to proclaim the fact. She told me: "Russian women are so sexy. You should come out with me and my friend. Come on, let's go to Roppongi, it's Halloween." But I held fast, because the girl was dodgy -- too old and too dodgy, I couldn't trust her. I am not interested in Russian women (even though a lot of men swear by them!) Japanese women are good enough for me!

My personal experience with Russian women is sparse (at this time at least), but according to Google, it does indeed seem that Russian girls have a predatory reputation. Even Hollywood agrees. In 2002 the movie Birthday Girl opened in theatres across Russia and the former Soviet Empire. The movie starred Nicole Kidman as a Russian girl who met a young English bank clerk on the Internet. The poor sap invites his Russian virtual love to visit him, but the girl turns out to be a virtual crook. According to Pravda newspaper in Russia: "Someone may think that this is another Hollywood fairytale, but the story of the movie has a lot of examples in real life. Russian girls have been attacking foreign men for 15 years already. Marriages between a Russian girl and a foreign successful businessman end with court proceedings and division of property -- this is the best variant of a sad end. The worst case is when such marriages end with a tragedy."

Anyway, backtracking to the Siberian lady I met at my house in October 2004 -- it turned out that because she was divorced she lost her Japanese visa, and she had to go to South Korea instead to make her bread. Like Japan, South Korea is a magnet for Russian women hoping to make their fortune. The Marmot's Hole tells a story of a restaurant in Seoul which allows visitors to 'appreciate a sleeping, well-proportioned Russian beauty, in a glass booth while they eat. According to the blog, quoting a Korean newspaper: "As soon as one enters the unnamed restaurant in Cheongdam-dong, Seoul, one's attention is immediately drawn to the glass booth in the middle of the restaurant. If the hermetically sealed glass booth's curtains are drawn open, the image of a long-legged Russian beauty, laying enchantingly in shorts and a sleeveless shirt, is revealed.

"Mr. Han, the owner of the place, said, 'As a way to break out of a business slump, we built the thing so that diners could experience both dining and visual pleasure through peeping at the beauty in transparent glass�E�EThe customers�E�Eviews vary, but we get young women asking to be hired for part-time work and there are a lot of people who pass by our restaurant just to look. After getting the idea from a restaurant in California, he opened his Cheongnam-dong store in March, and is now planning to open franchises in Apgujeong-dong and Jeju Island."

Here is another stereotype I am willing to proclaim: Asians are wierd! It might help explain all the wierd food in their diet!