Dolly Toyoda (1961-) was a Japanese woman who worked as a hostess at Goro Majima's Club Sunshine in Dotonbori, Osaka during the 1980s.
Biography[]
Toyoda was born in Osaka, Japan in 1961 to a working-class family. At the age of 18, Toyoda was impregnated by a man who soon left her life, and she was left to raise her daughter, Yoko Toyoda, by herself. In January 1989, Toyoda was forced to go to the loan sharks Tsukasa Yamakawa and Tetsui Osaki for a ¥1 million loan to help pay the bills, but she was unable to pay them back, leading to the two men threatening to sell her and her daughter into sexual slavery. Just then, her daughter's friend Goro Majima (who had won Yoko several dolls from UFO Catcher machines after meeting her in front of Club Sega) intervened and beat up the two loan sharks, and Yoko introduced the man to her mother as the man she called "Daddy". Toyoda later came to Majima's club to thank him, but, when Majima found out that Toyoda was still struggling financially, he offered her employment at Club Sunshine as a hostess so that she could pay off her debts and buy her daughter dolls, and he gave her the professional name "Dolly" (referencing her daughter's obsession with dolls).