How women are lured into Japan's vice dens: `I worked for Lucie's boss... and landed in jail' Jo Griffiths-Bainbridge was a `Western geisha' in Tokyo clubs for six months. Unlike Lucie, she made it home to tell the tale

• Published in: The Observer (London)
• Main Author: Griffiths-Bainbridge, Jo
• Format: Newspaper Article
• Language: English
• Published: London (UK) Guardian News & Media Limited 16.07.2000
• Subjects: Griffiths-Bainbridge, Jo; Nishi, Tetsuo

Later I met Tetsuo Nishi, now manager of the Casablanca, Lucie Blackman's club. He gave me his inscrutable smile and told me to take off my coat. And so began my hostessing career last year. It was to last six months, as part entertainer, part psychotherapist. As a stranger with no connection t...