Now it’s been 4 years since that incident. I found my love last year in Akita. We are so close so connected, that I’m actually thinking of marrying her and having children. Playing with that thought I got reminded of that one night in Osaka and got myself tested (will get the results in a week.) Even though the risk of infection of HIV itself is very low and I interrupted the intercourse right away, there still is a very small chance and I simply don’t want to risk my beloved ones life because of my stupidity in the past. I also agree with some of the other people who posted here. If you really care about the person you are sleeping with and not just came for two weeks to see Roppongi/Shibuya, you should get yourself and her/him tested. As for me, I will wait about my own results before talking to my Akita girl. She donates blood every year and I heard they check right away for HIV and other diseases. Does anyone know the situation in Japan? The doctor today said, she would already have been told if she really had HIV herself (she also used to date a Japanese guy who refused to use condoms).

@pink Do you still have contact with “Kumiko”? How is she doing with her child? Did she really have HIV or was it like irishadobraja posted, that her pregnancy influenced the results? If she was I’m pretty sure she is either concealing the truth or living stigmatized… as beautiful as Japan can be, it can also be very cold and cruel.

@irishadobraja: good post!

so because some japanese girls go out with Africans they re going to spread the virus ??? How many Africans people do you see in Japan ?
How many Japanese and foreign men go on those sex expedition in Thailand ? The thing is japanese girls themselves favor white men , so there again your argument is wrong.
If you wanna be racist , please be ,but don’t say that africans are spreading aids in Japan .

Kumiko is going to be just fine. I urge you to give her to read my message. HIV test are unreliable. Tell your ex Kumiko demend the HIV test disclaimers, ALL of them ELISA, WESTERN BLOT, PCR. She needs to read them carefully. She needs to read the small print. They all say they are NOT design for diognostic use, they are not design to detect the presence or the absence of HIV infection. She is pregnant. One of the 60 well documented conditions and diseases result in false-positives is PREGNANCY, because when a woman is pregnant she dvelopes massive amounts of antibodies against her own body thus resulting in false-positive HIV test. HIV is harmless passenger retrovirus and has nothing to do with AIDS defying diseases. There are thousands of people called “dissidents” who are 20+ years “positive” and live normal healthy lives without toxic HAART’s drugs. Antiretroviral drugs are DNA chain terminators and often times mimic AIDSyndrome. Please, please, please tell her not to take toxic drugs and read read read before she makes such decission. There are AIDS people who are HIV negative, newethereless they also die. Much questions remain about HIV=AIDS hypothesis. She can learn about it at perthgroup.com, rethinkingaids.com, virusmith.com and such. There are at least fourty websites of AIDS rethinkers.

Yes HIV+ positive people die from AIDS, however the number of those positives who remain alive after 20+ years without taking medications and never develop AIDS far outweights the number of those positives who die of AIDS and those who on HAART’s. That alone raises the question of just how lethal HIV is and if the eversoevolving virus is a sole cause of AIDS. AIDS in Africa is a totally different from AIDS in the West and Europe, but you need to research that on your own and I promise you’ll be amazed at the differences of HIV=AIDS in different countries!

Fighter, I urge you to read Vladimir Koliadin’s hypothesis about The distruction of friendly microflora in the gut as a main cause of AIDS in homosexuals. Google Vladimir Koliadin or go to virusmith.com and read about his work very carefully!!!

Good luck to all and stay healthy. HIV is far from a death sentence!!!

One of the major barriers I have found so far in Japan is the lack of understanding of what HIV is and what it can do and what it can not do. I told one of my female Japanese friends (mid 20s) that I was HIV+ and she freaked out as she though that it was AIDs and I was going to die before the end of week. I couldnt believe it. In fact she didn’t know there was a difference between HIV and AIDS.

Ironically despite such a lack of public awareness of HIV and a lack of sex education, Japan actually does treat HIV patients well and like normal human beings. There is extra support from the NHI system, and it is classed as a ‘disability’ so that you can be eligible for various discounts, and tax exemptions.

Anyone else in a similar situation? I would love to hear if anyone else has gone through the same thing.