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Japan
Nippon-koku
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Flag of Japan
Capital: Tokyo
Largest city: Tokyo
Resource Guide: RL-JAPAN
Area Code: +81
Country Code: JP
Language: Japanese
Drivers use left-hand side of road
Currency: Yen
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This is an "abridged" article about Japan as of Sept, 2024.
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Japan, officially known as Nippon-koku or Nihon-koku (Japanese: 日本国; literally: the State of Japan) in Japanese, is a country in East Asia made of up 6,852 islands. The country's name literally means "Origin of the Sun," so it is often called the "Land of the Rising Sun." It has a population of about 127 million, making it the tenth most populous country in the world. It has no official language, but the national language is Japanese. Its capital and largest city is Tokyo.

History

Japan was traditionally ruled by successive feudal military dictatorships (shogunates) and was isolated from the rest of the world until 1853 when an American fleet pressured it to open its doors. The Empire of Japan was proclaimed in 1868, and Japan built up its influence as a superpower in Asia through increasing militarism and winning battles against Russia and China.

Japan fought in World War II (1939-1945) on the Axis side, an alliance with Nazi Germany and Italy, until the atomic bombings of two Japanese cities by American forces in 1945 forced it to surrender and end the war.

Japan is now a highly developed country with the third largest economy in the world and very high healthcare standards. It is ruled by a constitutional monarchy, with Emperor Akihito as the head of state and the Prime Minister as the head of government.

Corporal punishment in Japan

Corporal punishment scene in Japan where a prisoner is tied up and hit with a bamboo stick.

Not much is known about the historical use of corporal punishment in Japan, e.g., as a punishment for crimes, for prisoners, in the military, in religious institutions, or in schools.

In the 8th century, corporal punishment criminal laws were imported from China.

Joukei (杖刑), literally "stick punishment," refers to a traditional Japanese corporal punishment style, where the spankee is lying prostrate on the floor, and one or two long paddles are used to beat their buttocks. This method resembles the Chinese method of Chi Zhang (笞杖) and the Korean method of gonjang (곤장 or 棍杖).

Also, a kind of bamboo stick seems to have been used in some cases to beat a tied-up delinquent, as exemplified in the image to the right. Nudity seems to have been avoided.

Spanking in Japan

Japanese maid cafe worker in cosplay uniform.

In the 20th century, school corporal punishment fell out of fashion and was gradually banned in many countries, a trend that continues until the present day.

As of May 2008, Japan prohibits corporal punishment in schools.

A Japanese matron spanking a girl in the seiza position, by Gauis Marius (2007).

Spanking as a parenting tool does not have a long and extensive history in Japanese culture as compared to other countries. However, the subject of spanking has fascinated and inspired Japanese artists since the early 20th century as Japan started opening its doors to the rest of the world. After World War II, some parents learned about spanking from American movies and series and began to use it. However, it cannot be said that it has taken root.

One specifically Japanese spanking position is the spanker on the floor in the seiza position, with the spankee sideways over their lap, as a variant of the Western over-the-knee position. This pose is often found in contemporary spanking art, but it is unsure how common it is in practice.

School corporal punishment was made illegal in Japan in 1941, but the practice remains common. A survey carried out in 1998 in Kagawa Prefecture found that about 70% of the high school teachers surveyed considered corporal punishment a necessary form of correction and more than 50% actually disciplined students in this way.[1]

Corporal punishment by coaches in extracurricular sports activities (bukatsu) is also very common. Japanese students spend long hours in bukatsu after school.[2]

Fun spanking in Japanese pop culture

A yaoi paddle is an implement adapted from a boating paddle. It is used by anime fans, often dressed up in cosplay outfits, to spank each other for fun at anime conventions.

Japanese spanking art

Since the 1980s and 1990s, Japan has a great influence on the worldwide genre of spanking art. Its most obvious influence is the Japanese comic and cartoon drawing style, manga, and its stop-motion pendant, anime.

Manga-style drawing has developed into a giant phenomenon that turned thousands of manga fans into active artists: this 'amateur' art is known as fan-art (if characters of commercial series are featured) or doujinshi. See spanking in manga and spanking in anime for mainstream works, and spanking manga and spanking anime for non-mainstream works.

A new kind of Web application for digital online drawing, which is also highly popular in Japan, oekakis, has led to a number of spanking oekakis.

Besides traditional drawing in manga/anime style, AI-generated spanking art has recently become popular among Japanese spanking artists.

Since manga/anime style has become popular worldwide and many spanking artists do not share their nationality, the following list might contain one or two artists who are not actually Japanese.

Japanese spanking artists include Akanamazu, Cross Chan, Frank, Kitora, Erika Kyoukousha, Mr. Sand, Shijou Aya and Taira Kibato.

Spanking video producers

The most prominent companies making adult spanking fetish videos in Japan are listed below. The most popular fantasy scenarios involve all-female stories with French maids and uniformed schoolgirls being disciplined in the classroom and at home.

  • SaeRock (M/F), Japanese girl spanked by her boyfriend (website)



Japanese spanking art

Since the 1980s and 1990s, Japan has a great influence on the worldwide genre spanking art. Its most obvious influence is the Japanese comic and cartoon drawing style, manga, and its stop-motion pendant, anime.

Manga style drawing has developed into a giant phenomenon that turned thousands of manga fans into active artists: this 'amateur' art is known as fan-art (if characters of commercial series are featured) or doujinshi.

See spanking in manga and spanking in anime for mainstream works, and spanking manga and spanking anime for non-mainstream works.

A new kind of Web application for digital online drawing, which is also highly popular in Japan, oekakis, has led to several spanking oekakis.

Spanking videos

A selection of videos featuring Japanese video producers and actresses.

  • C.P. Invitational (GoodSpanking Classics), Michelle Yamada, photos
  • C.P. Theatre (GoodSpanking Classics), Michelle Yamada, photos
  • The Interrogation (Chanta's Bitches), Mika Tan
  • Kimono Girl, Late Summer (Cutie Spankee), photos
  • Maid for Revenge (Maxine X), Yumi Yu
  • Master's Purchase (Chanta's Bitches), Mika Tan
  • Men's Briefs (Hand-Spanking.com, 2022), Airu, Shio, photos, more photos
  • Miserable Slave (Chanta's Bitches), Mika Tan

Sexploitation films

Japanese model in fetishistic sailor suit school uniform.
A young Japanese model posing in a bikini.

Much like the French New Wave of the early '60s – inspired by American film noire crime dramas – Japan embraced a new genre of gritty contemporary gangster films known as yakuza-eiga. Yakuza features were invariably brutal and bloody, providing audiences with a socially acceptable channel for their hostility and aggression – much of it directed toward society itself. Scores of these low-budget films were churned out by small independent studios.

Following the ground-breaking Gate of Flesh (1964), in which a nude prostitute is whipped and beaten with a bamboo pole (photos, video), a new cycle of increasingly daring sexploitation films began in Japan. These so-called "pink films" (aka pinku eiga) dominated domestic theaters from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s. At first, these were essentially yakuza crime dramas with a high content of sex and sadism. The selling point of these films were lurid scenes of abduction, bondage, whipping, spanking, torture, and sexual assault.

In 1970 a new "pinky violence" subgenre emerged, starting with a string of female motorcycle gang and schoolgirl gang movies. These tales of female criminality, empowerment, and revenge, put sex and nudity in the non-erotic context of violence and torture. This movement also influenced male-oriented stories of sexual domination that included graphic horror and serial killer stories as well as softcore pornographic features (called Roman porno or romance pornography), often with an S&M theme. Two of the better-known porn/S&M films are Wife to be Sacrificed and Flower and Snake (both 1974).

Starting with Female Convict #701: Scorpion (1972), the Women in prison film genre, popular in the U.S. and Italy, was also adopted. The industry even produced its own brand of arty nunsploitation films, another Italian import. The perversely erotic School of the Holy Beast (1974), which includes a topless whip fight, torture, and a rose thorn beating, is a genre classic and a critical and commercial success.

While Western sexploitation movies tend to be crude, low-budget productions with little attention paid to story, editing, or character, Japanese genre films are considerably more polished. One of the best examples of the often used abduction story, Star of David: Beauty Hunting aka Beautiful Girl Hunter (1979), exhibits the type of production values, story-driven characters, and complex plotting generally found in mainstream dramas.

Between 1965 and 1975, 1,600 yakuza and pink films were released in Japan. However, theater attendance has declined about 10 percent per year since 1986 due to the increase of VCR and DVD sales.

Below is a list of contemporary and historical pink films with BDSM elements (bondage, spanking, whipping, etc.):

  • The Embryo Hunts in Secret (1966), directed by Koji Wakamatsu (photos)
  • Violated Angels (1967), directed by Koji Wakamatsu
  • Sexy Partners aka Companions of Love and Lustful Companions (1967), directed by Kan Mukai, the first pink film to use S&M as a main theme
  • The Joy of Torture (1968), directed by Teruo Ishii (trailer, dungeon flogging scene)
  • Absolutely Secret: Girl Torture, aka Top Secrets of Women Torture (1968)
  • Inferno of Torture (1969), directed by Teruo Ishii
  • Blind Beast (1969), directed by Yasuzo Masumura
  • Violent Virgin (1969)
  • Girl Boss Guerilla (1972), directed by Norifumi Suzuki
  • Girl Boss Blues: Queen Bee’s Challenge (1972), directed by Norifumi Suzuki
  • Sex and Fury (1973), directed by Norifumi Suzuki (whipping scene)
  • Terrifying Girls’ High School: Lynch Law Classroom (1973), directed by Norifumi Suzuki
  • Flower and Snake (1974), directed by Masaru Konuma
  • Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs (1974), directed by Yukio Noda
  • Wife to Be Sacrificed (1974), directed by Masaru Konuma (video)
  • 100 Years of Torture (1975), Spanish horse, video
  • Slave Wife (1976), whipping scene
  • Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture (1977), directed by Noboru Tanaka
  • Fairy in a Cage (1977), directed by Koyu Ohara (video clip)
  • Rope Cosmetology (1978), directed by Shogoro Nishimura, human animal roleplay (video)
  • Rope and Skin (1979), directed by Shogoro Nishimura (enema scene)
  • All Women Are Whores (1980), directed by Shogoro Nishimura, video
  • Sex Hunter (1980), photos
  • Female Teacher: Rope Hell (1981), directed by Shogoro Nishimura (enema scene, double whipping scene)
  • Secretary Rope Discipline (1981)
  • Beauty Rope Cosmetology (1983), whipping scene
  • Beauty in Rope Hell (1983), video
  • Female Prisoner: Caged (1983), double whipping scene
  • Rope Torture (1984), video
  • Beautiful Teacher in Torture Hell (1985)
  • Female Market: Imprisonment (1986), video
  • S&M Hunter (1986)
  • Snake and Whip (1986), video
  • Flower and Snake: White Uniform Rope Slave (1986)
  • Wife to be Molested, aka S&M Hunter: Wife to be Molested (1987), whipping scene
  • Tokyo Decadence (1992), trailer

Prostitution in Japan

References

  1. ↑ Yoshio Sugimoto: An Introduction to Japanese Society, p. 145. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9781139489478
  2. ↑ Yasuhiro Omi: Corporal punishment in extracurricular sports activities (bukatsu) represents an aspect of Japanese culture, in: Educational Dilemmas: A Cultural Psychological Perspective, Taylor & Francis, 2019, ISBN 9781351588072

See also Japanese language and/or Dōsojin

Topics: Manga and Anime
Types Doujinshi • Fan art • Shoujo • Shōnen • Magical girl • Kemonomimi
Character types Meganekko • Moe • Pettanko
Sexual forms Hentai • Ecchi • Ero-guro • Lolicon • Moe • Pettanko • Shotacon • Yaoi • Yuri
Sites Anime Brats • Anime OTK • Oekaki
Info Japan • Spanking in manga • Spanking manga • Spanking in anime • Spanking in computer and video games
Glossary Glossary of anime and manga
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Lists of: Spanking actors • Spanking artists • Spanking authors • Spanking photographers • Video producers
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