From doctor’s daughter to Yoshiwara soapland star to running her own legal office in Meguro — Sumika Hori’s story is […]
A woman in her 30s has been living two very different lives. By day she works as a home helper […]
Japan’s prostitution law has always been lopsided. Selling it in public can get you arrested. Buying it? Basically a shrug. […]
Rurutan is an adult influencer with about 1.3 million followers. In a recent magazine conversation with author Akira Tachibana, she […]
A few years ago, Okubo Park on the edge of Kabukicho was one of those spots everyone seemed to know […]
Japan’s economy can feel stuck in the mud for a lot of people. Up at the very top of the […]
Japan’s geisha districts are a black box to most people. When someone who actually lived inside one starts talking, it […]
They go by a bunch of names. Officially they’re sexy cabaret clubs (セクシーキャバクラ, sekushī kyabakura, or sekukyaba). People also call […]
Japan is moving closer to changing its anti-prostitution law so that customers can actually get punished, not just the people […]
A former soapland worker in Tokyo’s famous Yoshiwara district got so fed up after being fired that she went straight […]
Kabukicho has always been one of those places that feels like it runs on its own rules. Neon lights, host […]
apan’s sex industry is still a massive money-maker, but the people actually doing the work often get treated like they’re […]
apan’s nightlife is packed with euphemisms. “Fashion health” for erotic massage, “delivery health” for outcall services… and then there’s the […]
One of the bigger sex industry stories this week: cops arrested five people connected to Louvre, a long-running luxury brothel […]
Yo, check this out — a dude who taught at a primary school in Kakamigahara City, Gifu Prefecture, just got […]
The Tokyo District Court on Thursday sentenced the leader of a sex-worker scouting group to four years and six months […]