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2001-07-01
MIMI MIYAGI, P.I. (Philippine Islander, That Is)
By: Ed Rampell
Posted: 12:00 am PDT 7-1-2001

    Stage, screen, and CD-ROM starlet Mimi Miyagi is CEO of the aptly named Mimi Miyagi Inc. (www.miminet.com). Her Las Vegas-based firm was incorporated in December 1993; Miyagi's studios went online in January 2000, and her e-business is still growing.
    "I spent the first year and a half putting in 16 to 22 hours a day, programming, doing graphics, video and audio compression, getting it to the point where I could write a full document on the way our architecture of the Website behaves," Miyagi recalls. "Originally, I started with a single studio, and it grew into a second cyber-studio, as more girls told other friends, and word of mouth spread. We reached three studios, with girls chatting for $4.99 a minute, and have grown to six cyber-studios, consisting of three rooms with two computers each. One of the computers includes streaming audio with the video - that's the multi-user chat room, which does not offer private one-on-one. Right now we're in the process of building two warehouses.
    "We have two corporate and production headquarters for our Website, the miminetwork in the free area, and in the members' area, the miminetclub. It includes a work station with techs and Webmasters working on the site," says the Webmistress.
    Starting in the early 1990s, the Asian beauty carved a niche market out for herself in porn as an archetypal "exotic Oriental." When Miyagi first went online, she performed live nude chat daily and had scheduled events. But thanks to the adult Internet, the Philippines Islands-born entrepreneur now has a cyber-stable of 12 multi-ethnic women performing chat in rotating shifts - enough so that Miyagi no longer has to fill in a shift herself.
    Mimisgirls.com is currently live noon to midnight, although Miyagi hopes to expand to 24 chatters and go 24/7, adding that her company has the capacity to allow women to chat from home.
    If Miyagi may seem to be a sort of virtual mamasan, she laughs and eschews this title, insisting she's no high-tech madam. "I don't consider myself really to be like that, because I try to keep my hands away from the actual cyber-studio - sometimes it can get highly emotional in there," she demurs. Be that as it may, Mimi Miyagi Inc. offers its workers counseling, and strives to build their self-esteem. "We have a `Wall of Hope' with phone numbers they can call for help with problems. I built my site out of love, for reaching out to people, because of my passion for people. We try to be compassionate to each other at work, as well," stresses Miyagi. She speaks with the experience of one who's been in the trenches, and Miyagi's insight extends to her customers, whom she refers to as "lonely."
    Miminet.com features photos and videos of models and porn stars, live video/photo shoots and interviews, original Web movies for downloading, and hardcore material such as "The Best of Mimi Miyagi." Membership is $14.95 per month, and the CEO claims her site has thousands of visitors, and each of her cyber-rooms averages 70 members.
    "The chat begins with the girls online with a numerous clients, wearing bikinis to entice and tease the customers," Miyagi explains. "They can chat for free; there's no membership fee at mimisgirls.com - the big site we're heavily promoting this year. Signup is free. It's just a way for us to do age verification and preauthorize a credit card. It goes into a one-on-one when the customer clicks on the icon to purchase the time, and the girl accepts his call, and it starts counting down the minutes.
    "During the one-on-one, consumers in the free area can only see a small picture on their computer screen. We do have phones in every room, so customers can speak live to the girls. It's not a 900 number - just their usual long distance call, as we offer free phone with live one-on-one chats, or they can just use their keyboards," states the CEO.
    The in-demand auteur is also writing, directing, and producing Metro's FantAsiany series of adult videos, which features amateur couples in settings professionally designed by Miyagi. Miminet.com plays FantAsiany clips compressed for the Net. Viewers can order the full VHS videos at toxxxic.com, which are then shipped to consumers.
    Miyagi migrated from the Philippines to California when she was six, and also lived at Guam, a Western Pacific U.S. territory. A scholarship to the American College for Fashion Merchandising took her to Westwood in Los Angeles, but college was cut short in 1992, when Miyagi pursued an adult career, starting with Ed Powers.
    "I can actually say I grew up in this industry," Miyagi professes. "After three years of acting, I had enough movies lined up to become a featured entertainer. I traveled the country for years, especially to strip clubs, cabarets, and theatres in cities like San Francisco and New York, where there's larger Asian populations. Lots of our clientele is Asian, and in urban areas with a big Asian populace, Caucasians are exposed to more Asians and get `yellow fever,'" says the Japanese/Chinese/Filipina woman.
    "The appeal of Asians as a niche market is it's always considered a mystique," reveals Miyagi. "The stereotype of Asian women is they're mysterious to Caucasian men. They try to psychoanalyze us, and figure out what it is in our lives that brings us so much peace and harmony, balance. That's the boundary they want to cross and see. Asian women are considered more submissive, faithful and loyal, because this is traditionally instilled in us since childhood - especially if we're born in Asia."
    Ironically, the World Wide Web has liberated Miyagi to pursue a low-tech endeavor, which remains near and close to her heart: touring and live performances. "I'm touching more into my creative side, and expressing it further into my shows," she reveals. "After creating features and Websites, I have now finally found the emotion to express on stage what I've always held back, as a featured entertainer. After about 10 years I can let myself go further on stage with creativity, in terms of costuming, props, and crowd interaction, which makes for a highly paid feature entertainer, earning around $12,000 weekly," says Miyagi.

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