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Word: kayama (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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These are middle-class girls from good schools. Many sign up for the money, which they use to buy expensive designer clothes. But according to Rika Kayama, a psychiatrist who specializes in young women's difficulties, the high school girls are as eager for anonymous companionship as the men are for a sexual thrill. "I do this to kill time," says one, "and because my friend asked me to do it." She is 18, just graduated from a Christian high school in Tokyo, and makes about $16 an hour. Sometimes the work is unpleasant. "The old guys want to talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FAILED MIRACLE | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

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