Akiko Takeyama
Biographic Data
| ID | 741030 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Akiko Takeyama |
| GIVEN NAMES | Akiko |
| FAMILY NAME | Takeyama |
| SIGNATURE | TAKEYAMA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9129-1656 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Involuntary Consent
Building on feminist debates of sexual labor, anthropological studies of contracts, and critical approaches to liberalism, this article pries open the sociolegal ambiguity of involuntary consent to examine contract making in Japan's adult video (AV) industry. While the dominant knowledge production surrounding "forced performance" in AV has cast it as a political issue of violence against women, the assumption that the victims are young, naive wo…
Marriage, aging, and women’s pursuit of commercial sex in Japan
A number of scholarly works have observed Western and Japanese women travelers who seek romance and adventure with local “beach boys” in the Global South. Despite the important criticism of geopolitical inequality contained in these works, what is missing is how those involved in such commodified sexual relationships make sense of what they do. This essay focuses on how well-heeled Japanese married women, who are concerned with the meaning and ef…
Healing Labor
Reviewed by: Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy by Gabrielle Koch Akiko Takeyama Gabrielle Koch. Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020. 248 pp. Studying Japanese women’s sex work in contemporary Japan, Gabrielle Koch’s ethnography, Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy, insightfully shows how sex workers make sense of the multilayered contradict…
Staged Seduction
In the host clubs of Tokyo's Kabuki-chō red-light district, ambitious young men seek their fortunes by selling love, romance, companionship, and sometimes sex to female consumers for exorbitant sums of money. Staged Seduction reveals a world where all intimacies and feigned feelings are fair game for the hosts who employ feathered bangs, polished nails, fine European suits, and the sensitivity of the finest salesmen to create a fantasy for wealth…
Commodified romance in a Tokyo host club
My original paper title was “Queer Eyes for the Japanese Guy” but I changed it to “Commodified Romance in a Tokyo Host Club”. Based on 10 months of fieldwork in Tokyo host and hostess clubs that are currently doing for my doctoral dissertation, today I would like to talk a little bit about male hosts and their female clients, what kind of social context the female clients’ desires derive from, and finally what the host club phenomena means to the…
Intimacy for Sale
This article examines the creation of entrepreneurial male subjects in Japan's host clubs. Based on my ethnographic study, I argue that hosts' entrepreneurship is constituted by commodifying themselves. This paradoxical - commodified, yet entrepreneurial - male subject is embedded in the new possibilities and constraints posed by Japan's neoliberal restructuring and global economic trends. Hosts, who dream of earning fast cash and achieving upwar…
Society for East Asian Anthropology
Commodified romance in a Tokyo host club
Walk anywhere at night in Tokyo’s famous Kabuki-cho ̄ sex district, the largest in Japan, and you can’t miss them – young males, mostly, wearing fashionable dark suits with matching leather shoes and typically smoking cigarettes. They are hosts – “hosuto” in Japanese – men who make a living entertaining Japan’s increasingly restless and well-heeled women. Thousands of these so-called hosts prowl the streets of Kabuki-cho ̄, making every effort to…
Intimacy for Sale
This article examines the creation of entrepreneurial male subjects in Japan's host clubs. Based on my ethnographic study, I argue that hosts' entrepreneurship is constituted by commodifying themselves. This paradoxical - commodified, yet entrepreneurial - male subject is embedded in the new possibilities and constraints posed by Japan's neoliberal restructuring and global economic trends. Hosts, who dream of earning fast cash and achieving upwar…
Involuntary Consent
Building on feminist debates of sexual labor, anthropological studies of contracts, and critical approaches to liberalism, this article pries open the sociolegal ambiguity of involuntary consent to examine contract making in Japan's adult video (AV) industry. While the dominant knowledge production surrounding "forced performance" in AV has cast it as a political issue of violence against women, the assumption that the victims are young, naive wo…
Commodified romance in a Tokyo host club
Walk anywhere at night in Tokyo’s famous Kabuki-cho ̄ sex district, the largest in Japan, and you can’t miss them – young males, mostly, wearing fashionable dark suits with matching leather shoes and typically smoking cigarettes. They are hosts – “hosuto” in Japanese – men who make a living entertaining Japan’s increasingly restless and well-heeled women. Thousands of these so-called hosts prowl the streets of Kabuki-cho ̄, making every effort to…
Society for East Asian Anthropology
Commodified romance in a Tokyo host club
My original paper title was “Queer Eyes for the Japanese Guy” but I changed it to “Commodified Romance in a Tokyo Host Club”. Based on 10 months of fieldwork in Tokyo host and hostess clubs that are currently doing for my doctoral dissertation, today I would like to talk a little bit about male hosts and their female clients, what kind of social context the female clients’ desires derive from, and finally what the host club phenomena means to the…
Intimacy for Sale
This article examines the creation of entrepreneurial male subjects in Japan's host clubs. Based on my ethnographic study, I argue that hosts' entrepreneurship is constituted by commodifying themselves. This paradoxical - commodified, yet entrepreneurial - male subject is embedded in the new possibilities and constraints posed by Japan's neoliberal restructuring and global economic trends. Hosts, who dream of earning fast cash and achieving upwar…
Staged Seduction
In the host clubs of Tokyo's Kabuki-chō red-light district, ambitious young men seek their fortunes by selling love, romance, companionship, and sometimes sex to female consumers for exorbitant sums of money. Staged Seduction reveals a world where all intimacies and feigned feelings are fair game for the hosts who employ feathered bangs, polished nails, fine European suits, and the sensitivity of the finest salesmen to create a fantasy for wealth…
Marriage, aging, and women’s pursuit of commercial sex in Japan
A number of scholarly works have observed Western and Japanese women travelers who seek romance and adventure with local “beach boys” in the Global South. Despite the important criticism of geopolitical inequality contained in these works, what is missing is how those involved in such commodified sexual relationships make sense of what they do. This essay focuses on how well-heeled Japanese married women, who are concerned with the meaning and ef…
Healing Labor
Reviewed by: Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy by Gabrielle Koch Akiko Takeyama Gabrielle Koch. Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020. 248 pp. Studying Japanese women’s sex work in contemporary Japan, Gabrielle Koch’s ethnography, Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy, insightfully shows how sex workers make sense of the multilayered contradict…
Involuntary Consent
Building on feminist debates of sexual labor, anthropological studies of contracts, and critical approaches to liberalism, this article pries open the sociolegal ambiguity of involuntary consent to examine contract making in Japan's adult video (AV) industry. While the dominant knowledge production surrounding "forced performance" in AV has cast it as a political issue of violence against women, the assumption that the victims are young, naive wo…
Sociology (6 works) · Japanese History and Culture (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Romance (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (3 works) · Club (3 works) · Commodification (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works)