Japanese Stewardess Uniforms Create Black Market

By Mark Lorenz on March 30th, 2010

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We’ve had a lot of news of the apocalyptic sort involving the world’s airline industries in the past decade, but it’s time for a different kind of story. One that involves Japanese kink. Come along with me.

Everybody knows people get freaky in Japan. It’s one of those constants in the world, like the sun, death, and Uwe Boll fisting celluloid intensely. But it’s interesting how freaky they get.

Japan Airlines suffered a bankruptcy announcement in January, after operating for more than 50 years under heavy financial duress. We’re talking heavy financial duress, son. We’re talking losing more than ¥100 billion in a single quarter. And for more than 50 years, it appears that Japanese men have desperately wanted to have sex with flight attendants. Cancel that, men in general have desperately wanted to have sex with flight attendants, but only the Japanese Airlines uniforms can fetch a fortune on the black market.

Japan Airlines keeps painstaking records to make sure none of them get out, by affixing a serial number on each one, and tracking where they are all over the world. The uniforms are sold, on average, for more than 18,000 dollars once one of them gets out, which a few have through theft.

That is insane. That’s like a sexy maid outfit being sold at a Christie’s auction.

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