Paris Early '80s Chapter 1
I had it all, or at least what I wanted and where I wanted, or so I thought .
The FFL was over for me . Post Traumatic Stress caused me to shoot a p$@*k in the knee during 14th July celebrations in
Marseilles . He is still around but with a shattered knee of course but that's another story you might never hear.
Or so George Marchais and his party CANNARD ENCHAINEE ( Chained Duck ) news paper declared anyway. Shrinkers and lawyers said in the kangaroo court I was thrown in after the shooting. I was conditioned to " cleanse " by Pompidou's men and I ended up being declared temporary insane and got thrown out of FFL with a slap in the hand and a lot of " shut up money " and connections . I also saved a lot from my salary because there was no place to waste the money while travelling around with travel expenses paid and bonuses, coutesy of the French and it's clients .
Straight away I got work galore . The main one was to baby sit weird hungry Japanese people through a Japanese Travel agency called Kinki Tourist on Opera Avenue.
In the early 80's, the Japanese were pouring into Europe via over paid rip-off (BOTAKURI) tours organized by JAL mostly . Four or five main European cities were popular; London, Paris, Rome, Geneva and Dusseldorf. Punters paid around 700,000 JPY for a 9 day tour up front and wasted three or four times that amount feeding hungry escorts and local guides in " optional tours" and of course the BOTAKURI tax free shops which were mostly Yakuza owned. Yamanaka tax free shop on Palais Royal, Miss Paris, Paris Opera and other tiny money sucking operations were mostly situated on Opera Avenue, Fauboug St. Honore, Madeleine (whores too) and expanded all the way to the St. Germain Boulevard .
Visa over-staying Japanese hard core Francophones, that were royally screwed by corrupt French immigration and the cops were suddenly en vogue...
Many French men had to have their Petite Japonaise in bed and the Japanese males were happy to give ass or serve some of the faggot joints on the Rue St Anne. Serious over-stayers kept on joining Alliance Francaise (Paris University 3rd ward or Sorborne as it was proudly called), a French government owned sham language school and a recruiting field for mafia, crooks, terrorists, pimps and Japanese cannibalistic Yakuza connected, future tax-free shops on the look out for slave workers and believe me THEY got those slaves all the time.
Around that time in 1981, the Japanese cannibal Sagawa Issei (aged32) raped and killed his plump rosy Dutch girlfriend and ate her raw and fried, little by little, while storing her body in a deep freezer outside his Paris suburban place which gave another bizarre boost to Japanese popularity. Sagawa, before joining the French sham Alliance Francaise, tried to kill and eat a German Tourist here in Japan. He got arrested but the rich father bribed the girl and cops and the guy got sent to France to " study " French. Henri Colland, the French Cuckoo's nest for the FFL, Indochina war PTSD and high class cannibals, declared Sagawa insane. While interned there a movie director offered to make a movie on his life story ...
Anyway, after a stint in the Frog Cuckoo's Nest and declared insane he was deported and shut in a high class cuckoos nest joint in Setagaya ward, Hachiman yama for - get this - one year...
Japanese Law and the shrinks said he wasn't insane and was faking - this while his daddy bribed the interpreter and the poor interpreter was under immense pressure by the French Government to get rid of the weird ASAP. They got rid of Sagawa by declaring him innocent by insanity, burned his files (?) and told the Japanese police to f@*k off as "he is your problem from the start- Au Revoir".
And so it was done. He is now free and roams around Ginza and other areas on the look-out for retarded chicks that want to eat s@*t and drink p@*s while tied up with a KAMEYAMA lit candle up their asses and/or their snatches. He's considered a "writer" as he's written books about cannibalism and now goes to symposiums where Japs shout " Yo! Kuidoraku " meaning Hey Gormet in Japanese. Another bizarre happy case to file.
Back to the dark city of light;
Japanese culture was having a boom. Females sucked the right dick and managed to become rich horny toads concubines and some even married rich guys only to open their own " Petite Boutique Hors Taxes " in the Opera 1st ward area. Erotic movies like " L'empire des Senses " where a woman f@*ked her lover and then chopped his dick off when he went to look for better pastures and Samurai movies like RAN a Kusosawa movie with sissy boy Peter and the stupid SHOGUN with some gaijin faggot and Shimada Yoko the kleptomaniac, money greedy psycho all fuelled the fire. Sony's blue silver WALKMAN (I got one from a J client) fast and game machines like DONKEY KONG, Space Invaders and PACMAN, helped the Japanese woman to be a very fashionable possession for French mother complexed male. The J men had to either shut up, pimp out of rich old French women or take it up the ass on Rue St Anne by the Opera Avenue.
Everything was around the Opera area. Whores, pimps, tax free rip offs, faggot clubs, Nisho Iwai office, Paris Miki glass shop, Miki Tourist, Mitsukoshi Tax Free, Lancel, Japanese Restaurants and a J supermarket.
Even the now defund cartel yakuza ass kissing , money laundering TOKYO BANK with it's over charged foreign exchange tax rates and a book store down stairs .
It was a free for all...
Fake over priced French Restaurants had Japanese menus too. The sleazy porn shops on the Pigalle area too had signs in broken Japanese and used Vietnamese attendants while controlled by Israeli/Armenian and Arab bosses. Equally sleazier strip joints along the Pigalle/Blanche area too were ready for sucking money from Japanese males. Easter Europe fake painters roamed Place du Teatre in Monmartre targeting Japanese mainly after the Americans, Brits, Germans and Dutch but most of all, Japanese punters fed a whole lot of cannibalistic buzzards for more than a decade.
Hawaii was for fools. Especially after the Yamaguchi Gumi Taoka and his goons got caught buying guns, bazookas, etc from an FBI snitch. Everybody had been to Hawaii , Saipan and Guam at least once. Ripe suckers had been there five or ten times. So the main challenge was of course Europe; London, Paris and Rome. From Paris they took planes or trains to Geneva (no crappy TGVs back then) and Yungfrau in Interlaken. From Rome they rode night trains to
Brindisi into Greece for an exhausting day and night of further money wasting. Others took charted buses (no way they let such a suckers mix with the locals in normal train trips) or leased all night express trains from Rome to Switzerland/Austria under heavy guard from greedy escorts. Those escorts milked them for anything and hauled their passports and other valuables to make sure none of them were filched by similar " escorts " or real thieves. For years Japanese were milked and incredible as it might sound there were repeaters galore. Word of mouth got around and honey mooners were targeted; so were retirees. Parents and friends used to drop tons of money onto the newly married pockets, specially Aichi or country areas where marriages were so damn lavish that the couple couldn't find a place in their money belts to transport the cash an in those days, credit cards were still hard to get.
Escorts from Japan and back made most of the rebate and " SHINOGI " - Yakuza for shady business. The escorts milked the punters and the local escorts, tax free shops, restaurants, cabarets, Lido , Moulin Rouge, Follie Bergere mega discos, Pigalle pimps and more. Hotels were built out of nowhere PARIS NIKKO HOTEL was one of them, the Concord Hotel chain too made tons of extra money. The IBIS, Hilton, Intercontinental to name but a few. The Fauboug St Honore street got over-loaded with a new tax free shop every three months and Japanese restaurants also popped out of nowhere. (Now there are fake chink restaurants all over Paris). There are very few of the real thing left. Openly Yakuza owned joints like the Osaka Ramen restaurant with an unofficial MAJAN game on the basement and the Yamaka Tax Free shop on Palais Royal Square.
It was an endless wave of money waving Japanese punter everywhere in Paris, London, Geneva, Rome and Dusseldorf (they used to ride them boats down the Rhine river ). It got wider spreading to Madrid and Barcelona. Europe was invaded by loaded Japanese .
Of course, lurking behind all that happy-go-round vicious circle there were even darker SHINOGI buzzards .
Pigalle Porn shops milked Japanese by accusing them of opening porn books from their plastic covers and after leafing through them just dropped them back on the stalls. That's true but they called hefty goons not to let them out of the shop without coughing three four time the amount of the value (if they were lucky). Escorts had their own porn movie and magazine racket. They were illegal to bring into Japan and in many cases the same escorts recommended the horny punters to buy chocolate boxes, throw the choco out and put the porn movie in them and for another fee the escorts would seal them back up. So plenty of chocolate eating Japs were pouring back from Europe. A sweet tooth epidemic indeed. Other porn shops came out with the funny idea of shipping the stuff to the punter for another fee. The punter happily agreed and never saw the goods again because the porn shop guy just pocketed the money and resold the stuff to another gullible horny Jap and so on and so on. No complainers either because they were doing an illegal gig .
Cabarets used to drop mickeys into the fake champagne bottles and when the punter fell asleep he had all his money and values stolen and was then promptly thrown out onto the street. The same cabaret and restaurants double charged, if the Japs were lucky of course, for their wares. Gypsy bands of pickpockets were based in the Montreil and a camping place in the suburbs areas of Paris with stolen bags full of cash and passports . The passports were sold to the Yakuza and Japanese Red Army fugitives. Later North Korean spies too became avid clients. The Metro was loaded with different type of pickpockets too. Rome was where the bag snatchers were at first but Gypsy pickpockets were en vogue the most.
Japanese escorts were at a loss. They didn't speak the local lingo and knew nothing about local customs either. Most were cheaters that " studied " guide books of the area they went to most, learned broken phrases and in fact relied on the very same locally long term living Japanese while milking their margin out of them too. The escorts figured that they could learn more out of their own punters imbecility. Who needed to go to school for that ? For a JALPAK or LOOK 200 punter tour during 9 or 14 days, three escorts could make five million yen each, easily. Multiply that by five as a yearly norma and that guy or gal made enough to get greedier and retire in five or ten years. And some did make it big .
As I said, a free for all.
Enter trouble shooter Antonio...
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