We all like to compare numbers, especially when it comes to the number of people you’ve slept with.
But we accept defeat when it comes to Yuhei Takashima, who has apparently admitted to sex with over 12,000 women.
That’s not a typo: more than twelve thousand!
The former Yokohama school principal was not just into the sex itself. He also catalogued his incredible feat.
Over 27 years he allegedly archived almost 150,000 photographs of his sexual exploits with prostitutes in 400 neatly filed red albums.
Takashima is aged 64 but his “career” goes back to 1988 when he went to work at a Japanese school in Manila for three years. A strong yen and a cheap sex industry made for an unhealthy combination.
Since his first encounter, Takashima reportedly went on three sex tours a year to the Philippines. His 65 visits totalled up to 12,700 sexual exchanges, which is an average of one per day for every day of his life since his first visit. Obviously he was in Japan most of the time so he must have been frequenting multiple prostitutes every day (and night).
These prostitutes were aged between 14 and 70, indicating the catholic nature of Takashima’s tastes. 10% were under the age of 18, Takashima is said to have admitted to police.
He has said he enjoyed the “strong feeling of liberation from the restraints of ethics”. The last photo in his collection is labelled “12,660″.
His downfall? He was arrested in January 2014 for having sex in a Manila hotel with a minor. Philippine police also gave the Japanese police information in September 2013 when they caught Takashima paying a girl aged 13-14 around ¥2,500 for sex. However, because they could not identify the girl, he was not charged with soliciting a child prostitute.
Police have now seized his amazing 147,600-strong catalogue of sex.
He faces charges of possession of child pornography because he took photos of what he did with the underage girl.
Kanagawa Prefectural Police can prosecute Takashima under special laws for crimes committed overseas.
He may also have to return his retirement bonus to the education board. Since his retirement as junior high school principal in 2011 Takashima had been working as an editor of an educational publication.
