{"id":5053,"date":"2010-03-02T17:18:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T00:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=5053"},"modified":"2023-07-16T13:17:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T20:17:05","slug":"japanese-booth-babes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/japanese-booth-babes\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Booth Babes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/28123701trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/28123701trim.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"japanese booth babes trade show models \u30a4\u30d9\u30f3\u30c8\u30b3\u30f3\u30d1\u30cb\u30aa\u30f3\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/life-style-with-dog\/>Cute girls in Japan<\/a> are not a scarce commodity. At trade shows they specialize in having their pictures taken with the product. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/28133948trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/28133948trim.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\u30a4\u30d9\u30f3\u30c8\u30b3\u30f3\u30d1\u30cb\u30aa\u30f3 tokyo anime international fair\" width=\"315\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5060\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/28133948trim.jpg 315w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/28133948trim-98x250.jpg 98w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Japanese they are called \u30a4\u30d9\u30f3\u30c8\u30b3\u30f3\u30d1\u30cb\u30aa\u30f3 or &#8220;Event Companion.&#8221; That almost sounds like a term given for an escort. I suppose it is more classy sounding than the most common English term of &#8220;Booth Babe&#8221; though. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/28110847trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/28110847trim.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"event companion \u30a4\u30d9\u30f3\u30c8\u30b3\u30f3\u30d1\u30cb\u30aa\u30f3 tokyo international anime fair 2010\" width=\"304\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5059\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/28110847trim.jpg 304w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/28110847trim-95x250.jpg 95w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in the day, when everyone didn&#8217;t bring a camera to trade shows and car shows, they were to attract attention to the booth. They still fill that role, but they spend most of the day posing for photos now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/28134041trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/28134041trim.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"booth babe japan international anime manga fair\" width=\"408\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5058\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/28134041trim.jpg 408w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/28134041trim-127x250.jpg 127w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some amateur photographers were taking dozens of photos of a single girl in just as many different poses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/28133732trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/28133732trim.jpg\" alt=\"mutant girls squad\" title=\"japanese booth babe\" width=\"464\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5057\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/28133732trim.jpg 464w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/28133732trim-145x250.jpg 145w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mutant Girls Squad?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/28123714trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/28123714trim.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"japanese model\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/28123714trim.jpg 600w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/28123714trim-187x250.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They seemed quite happy to strike several different poses for someone who wasn&#8217;t paying them to be a model.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/28131320trim-DeNoiseAI-severe-noise.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/28131320trim-DeNoiseAI-severe-noise.jpg\" alt=\"japanese booth babes sexy tokyo japan\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Such is the life of a promotional model at the Tokyo International Anime Fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cute girls in Japan are not a scarce commodity. At trade shows they specialize in having their pictures taken with the product. In Japanese they are called \u30a4\u30d9\u30f3\u30c8\u30b3\u30f3\u30d1\u30cb\u30aa\u30f3 or &#8220;Event Companion.&#8221; That almost sounds like a term given for an escort. I suppose it is more classy sounding than the most common English term of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[269],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5053"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27825,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053\/revisions\/27825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}