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Juliana's, also known as Juliana's Tokyo (ジュリアナ東京), was a Japanese discothèque in that operated in Shibaura, Minato, Tokyo in the early 1990s. It was famous for its dance platforms, on which office ladies dressed in "bodycon" (abbr. (wasei-eigo): "body conscious" (ボディコン, bodikon, "sexually flattering clothing")) clubwear would congregate, as amateur go-go dancers (professionals were also employed). The club was produced by Masahiro Origuchi for the British leisure services group Wembley PLC, and Nissho Iwai Corporation, the Japanese general trading company (now part of Sojitz).

The club "Disco Queen" in chapters 18, 19, and 21 of the rugby manga No Side by Ikeda Fumiharu (池田文春) is a reference to Juliana's, down to the white feather fans used by the dancers.

See also

  • Herve Leger—the fashion house founded by the creator of the body-con dress

Notes

  1. Brand, Tokyo Night City, p. 34.
  2. Jim Breen's WWWJDIC, ボディコン.
  3. Chaplin, Sarah. Japanese Love Hotels: A Cultural History. Routledge contemporary Japan series, 15. London: Routledge, 2007, p. 135. ISBN 978-0-415-41585-9, ISBN 978-0-203-96242-8.
  4. Schilling, Mark (1997). The Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture. Weatherhill. pp. 76–78. ISBN 0-8348-0380-1.
  5. Kawakami, "Survivors: two approaches to survival in Japan's unkind economy".
  6. Trends in Japan, "Disco Icon Sets Out To Conquer Nursing Care".
  7. Schilling, The Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture, p.77.
  8. ノーサイド ( Error: {{nihongo}}: text has italic markup (help), ("Nō Saido")) volume 3, pp. 32–3, 35, 66–68, 111–123. ISBN 4-08-875070-5.
  9. PRISMS: The Ultimate Manga Guide, No Side. Accessed 10 August 2008.
  10. Fujino, Chiya. "Her Room". In Ozeki, Ruth, and Cathy Layne. Inside and Other Short Fiction: Japanese Women by Japanese Women; with a foreword by Ruth Ozeki; compiled by Cathy Layne, p. 144. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2006. ISBN 4-7700-3006-1. Accessed 10 August 2008.

References

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