girl’s bar

Girls gone wild

By Amy Takahashi • April 26, 2009

Following this week’s bust of club B in Yokohama for employing female staff in revealing clothing, entertainment site Zakzak (Apr. 22) postulates that such extreme practices is due to growing competition in the industry, with clubs increasingly masking their true intentions to evade strict police enforcement.

Yokohama ‘girl’s bar’ busted, attire deemed inappropriate

By Amy Takahashi • April 22, 2009

Loose-fitting men’s shirts without bras

Clampdown on boys behind bars in Kabukicho

By CJ • March 21, 2009

Bars catering to both sexes seeking to exploit the adult-entertainment law

Kabukicho conundrum

By CJ • December 15, 2008

Recent police crackdown on sleaze that has shut a large swath of sex clubs

Looking toward 2009: What to (s)expect in the year to cum

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • December 12, 2008

What’s the latest news from the commercial sex business? Only a magazine like Spa! (Dec. 16) could touch on such a topic with a headline like “Nookie-pedia 2008.” Well actually it’s “Nuki-pedia,” the term nuki being a slang term akin to “getting off.”

Girl power

By CJ • November 3, 2008

TOKYO – From couples entering the restaurant Gonpachi to tipsy groups piling into club Muse, typical evenings at the Nishi Azabu crossing are never …

Kabukicho ‘girl’s bar’ busted in sofa snafu

By CJ • October 28, 2008

TOKYO – A female employee at a specialty hostess club was arrested over the weekend for sitting next to a customer.
The infraction occurred …