Calculation of Interests (Cont’d)
Sometimes I hear a question like this. It is clear that caves do not even have a function of bringing Japanese people to the interior to settle down there, if they only do their businesses for foreigners and loathe Japanese as if they are snakes and scorpions. However, if they completely change their business policy (!) and start welcoming Japanese or even actively taking them as their only clients, that will facilitate Japanese labourers’ settlement or at least hold their feet in one place for relatively a long time, which must result in the prosperity of immigrant communities. Of course, caves are about barbaric desire. In view of taste and character, they should be disdained. However, for those who only engage in labour from morning to evening, being alone in the isolated wilderness of the immigrant land without having a wife and a child, it is natural that they ask for some kind of pleasure in their lives even if they work together with friends. It is too harsh to ask them to seek comfort from literature or other noble sources of pleasure. All countries have a working class and those who are under circumstances in which they engage in temporary labour. We cannot reject their wishes to satisfy their natural desire and instincts simply as barbaric. Therefore, if caves change their policy and open up their business to Japanese, their existence may be proven as effective!
Let me pause and listen for a while to the above argument, and take it as a serious discussion that gives some room for considering the meaning of the existence of those caves.
However, I am prepared to immediately refute this argument. Here is a real case.
A few years ago, there was a prostitute called Oiwa, who migrated to this county being brought by devil Okamoto from Fukushima Prefecture. She is 28 years old this year and there is a rumor that she was engaged in prostitution in Japan as well, but this has not been proven. In fact, Okamoto is his fake name and his real name is Ginji Akita. Oiwa is a worn-out prostitute; she was once in the Seattle area but she returned back to Canada, and earned in almost all places, including Kamloops, Revelstoke, Three Valley, Golden, Calgary, Michel, Fernie, Cranbrook, Nelson, Rossland, Kelowna, and others. She took a number of Japanese clients when she was in Three Valley and Kelowna.