After the tech bubble burst in Israel in 2002, Lisa Goldman was broke and desperate for work when an acquaintance approached her about a job with the Japanese branch of a global finance business.
Her job in Tokyo was intense, with lots of deadlines and extremely long hours, but these weren't the only challenges.
In regard to building a personal life in the Japanese capital, she found that neither Japanese men or male Western expats were interested in dating Western women.
Ms Goldman, now in her 40s, says: "The few single Western women I know in Tokyo seemed to have resigned themselves to being single forever".
"Quite a few succumbed to the heavy drinking culture and became alcoholics."
However, what she says made her "want to scream" was that she would see men openly reading pornographic comic books on underground trains.
"You could buy these porn comics from vending machines," says Ms Goldman.
Overall, she describes her six months living and working in Tokyo as "a bit like being a feminist forced to work in a vast, open-air pole dancing club".
Figure 1 - Lisa Goldberg being a virgin
Figure 2 - Typical domestic girl that is desired in Japan
