Yakyūken gets its name from a Shikoku chant which is still a local performance art today.[1] It is quite common to see yakyūken on Japanese television variety shows especially at New Years.
Yakyūken eroge are also popular in Japan and many East Asian countries, with the first yakyūken video game being created by Hudson Soft for the Sharp MZ-80K in 1981.[3] Yakyūken as a stripping game was further propagated by the prolific Japanese adult video industry, which often used the yakyūken chant in their videos.