What Could Be Sexier Than a Middle-Aged Japanese Businessman?

Well a lot of things probably. Chocolate-covered strawberries, silk, and Swedish college students come to mind, and the list extends much longer than that (pretty much forever). But my sense of the sexy is out of touch with Japanese culture apparently, where designers are pushing aging executives down the runway to satisfy a booming taste for wrinkly men of power and influence, creating bizarre, frightening, and all too real scenarios like the following:

"Mr. Company President is sexy!" gushed an announcer as Toyota Motor's chairman of the board, Hiroshi Okuda, showed off a sharp black suit and pants at a fashion show this week at the 2005 World Fair.


Toyata Chair/Sex Kitten Hiroshi Okuda

Yes, the soup du jour on the Asian island is the well ripened male. [female readers, try not to growl].