From doctor’s daughter to Yoshiwara soapland star to running her own legal office in Meguro — Sumika Hori’s story is […]
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 […]
The 1980s in Japan felt different. Bubble economy, big bonuses, companies throwing money around, and a general sense that everything […]
Walk through Kabukicho at night and your senses get completely overloaded. Neon signs stacked on top of each other, touts […]
Shinjuku Station swallows around 3.6 million people every single day. It’s the busiest train station on the planet. West of […]
Picture this: A guy drops a fixed hourly fee at a girls’ bar just to chat with the cute staff […]
Tokyo’s Kabukicho got a little less fun over the weekend. On July 22 and 23, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police carried […]
t’s been a full year since Japan’s government rolled out changes to the Entertainment Law (that fūeihō thing) aimed at […]
Kabukicho has a reputation. Even if you’ve never been there, you’ve probably heard stories — some exciting, some sketchy, and […]
A deadly fire at a high-end, members-only private sauna in Tokyo’s Akasaka district could result in compensation exceeding ¥200 million, […]
What happens to all those millions of yen that flow through the coffers of Japan’s hostess clubs? A lot goes […]
Last December a backstreet in the Taiyujicho/Toganocho district of Umeda in Osaka underwent a makeover in a bid to decrease the […]
For the first time, a court in Japan rules that hosts taking kickbacks from routing indebted customers to sex shops […]
Tokyo Metropolitan Police has arrested the former manager of a Hostess Club in Tokyo’s famous Entertainment District Roppongi as TBS […]