The Japanese tradition is one of sexual openess. Shinto is a nature worshiping religion and Japan has no history of missionaries fucking up the society preaching guilt shame and sexual repression. Japan like Thailand is a Buddhist country and like thailand is at once very sexually conservative and open, according to the time and place. In Thai villiages it is conservative as in rural Japan,but it is different in Tokyo. Thailand and Japan are the only 2 east asian countries never to have been colonised and thus were not subjected to sexually repressive religions such as Christianity.The US occupation of Japan only lasted 7 years and the numbers of Americans minimal. The defeated Japanese were forced to accept American style democracy and government and educational institutions, in 1948 prostitution was made illegal for the first time in Japanese history. But change was only on the surface, mixedpublic bathing, once the norm was campaigned against by Christian bigots in the occupation and today most onsen and sento are sexually segregated.Virginity has never been prized in Japanese culture and Japan would have the second largest p4p scene on earth, second only to China. Thailand has far fewer pros than Japan, unfortunately most ofthe p4p scene in Japan caters only to Japanese, gaijin are excluded, nevertheless there areplentyof places that will accept gaijin, although the choice greatly diminishes in inverse proportion to your Japanese language ability.