Comments on: Sex businesses vanishing from greater Tokyo metropolitan area

By: Salons supplying sleaze shuttered across Japan | The Tokyo Reporter - News, Features, and Photos from Tokyo

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:17:22 +0000

[...] at ground level with shady fuzoku and kyabakura shops upstairs, making for a unique balance. But police raids shut many of these sex-oriented clubs and the spaces are still vacant, their windows covered with signs [...]

By: What’s in a name? Soaplands still going strong 25 years on | The Tokyo Reporter - News, Features, and Photos from Tokyo

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:36:23 +0000

[...] December 19 will mark a quarter century since political correctness forced the operators of the erotic bathhouses that used to be known toruko-buro (Turkish baths) to drop that term in favor of [...]

By: Pimpin’ pork: Saitama town pushes out ‘pink’ | The Tokyo Reporter - News, Features, and Photos from Tokyo

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:52:31 +0000

[...] now it is but a footnote. A rash of police busts has shut down a large swath of the 200 salons, pubs, and numerous other palac… In their place, the city last year began a campaign to promote so-called “B-class” [...]

By: Japanese Prostitutes Having a Hard Time Too, In This Economy « Welcome to the House of Void

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:13:23 +0000

[...] prostitutes working in sex shops. The Tokyo Reporter gives us the details: “Bosses of sex shops are under a lot of stress these days,” journalist Yukio Murakami tells Nikkan Gendai. “The number of customers has been plummeting, [...]