No-pan kissa (Japanese:ノーパン喫茶,Hepburn:Nōpan kissa;pronounced[noːpaŋkiꜜssa],lit. 'no-panties cafés') areJapanese sex establishments offering food and drinks served bywaitresses wearing short skirts with nounderwear. The floors, or sections of the floor, are sometimesmirrored.[1] Shops generally operate under a "no-touch" policy.[2] The shops otherwise look like normal coffee shops (kissaten), rather than sex establishments, although they charge a premium price for the coffee.[1]
Previously, most sex establishments, such assoaplands andpink salons, were staffed with professional prostitutes.No-pan kissa were a popular employment choice amongst some women because they paid well and generally required little sexual contact with the customers.[citation needed]
The first one to open was inOsaka in 1980.[3] Initially, all of them were in remote areas outside the traditionalentertainment districts. Within a year, large numbers had opened in many more places, such as majorrailway stations.[4]
In the 1980s (the peak of the boom in these shops), many started to havetopless or bottomless waitresses.[5] However, at this point, the number of such shops started to decline rapidly.[1]
TheNew Amusement Business Control and Improvement Act came into force on February 13, 1985, which further restricted thesex industry and protected the more traditional businesses.[6] Eventually, such coffee shops gave way tofashion health (massage) clubs and fewno-pan kissa, if any, remain.[1]
In addition tono-pan kissa, there has also beenno-panshabu-shabu[7] andno-pankaraoke.[2][8] In 1998, four officials at theMinistry of Finance were arrested and 112 were disciplined for accepting bribes in the form of visits to ano-pan shabu-shabu restaurant in Shinjuku.[9]
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