I don’t know if this is real or a joke, but if it’s real, I think it’s time to book a vacation to Japan! For research purposes, of course.

Three-week boot camp whips humped-out hookers back into shape

It’s 0530 in the morning and you’re out walking your dog along the bank of river in a rural district northeast of Tokyo. Suddenly you hear the staccato footfall of a group of runners approaching. Emerging from the early morning mist are four females in their 20s clad in gym uniforms, and one male, looking for all the world like a drill sergeant putting new recruits through their paces.

There’s a boot camp in the woods where a paid professional trainer works wonders at helping restore world-weary whores to fighting trim.

Imagine something like “Rocky 3” with sex.

This is serious business, with no mercy shown to the weak: In previous sessions, the dropout rate by week three at Nonomura’s camp has averaged 70 percent. And sure enough, only two of the four survive to graduate, One, Ms. Kobayakawa, headed back to the city armed with a diploma and a hearty recommendation from her instructor, to begin new employment, at a high-class hand-job establishment in Tokyo’s Shibuya district. The other, Ms. Nonaka, was mulling a firm offer from a “honban este” in Akasaka, a sexy salon serving intercourse as the main course.