Tomoko Noguchi, 22, got her first bar hostess job about three years ago, while studying to become an aesthetician at a vocational school.
Dressed in a suit and with her long hair curled, she served drinks part-time at a bar in Ueno, Tokyo.
Despite landing a full-time job at a major aesthetic salon after she graduated from her two-year course, however, Noguchi quit the company within nine months.
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