While browsing through back issues of CoN, I noticed an article entitled "Why Guys Don't Call" and the associated comments from females about the struggles we have with whether we should call or not call.
Shin Captain Tsubasa was a Japanese cartoon solely about soccer that I used to watch, in Europe, as a kid. I have vague memories of the name of the characters, as those never stuck around for too long for me to remember and besides, Japanese cartoons all look the same.
Good for you. Now why would you want to do something like that to yourself?
Think about it. Think really hard.
Is it the culture? Do you want to immerse yourself in the same atmosphere that the samurai breathed all those years ago, learn calligraphy and koto, or maybe martial arts?
As an interested observer and sometimes subject of the mating/dating game between males and females, it is clear that the bar/club scene is a common way to meet men/women.