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You stand on any Tokyo shinkansen station platform at 11:00 p.m. on weekday nights, watching the hordes of red-faced, inebriated salary men, catching the slow Kodama and Nansuno trains home to dingy little 162 meter "1Room" flats in little outlying districts of Tokyo, after yet another night of client "entertainment," and you understand the desperate lives of a significant fraction of Japan's young male population. Sex ain't all they're not getting, and most of 'em have 30 to 50 more years of it staring them in the face...