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Ikebukuro ‘boy’s bar’ busted for improper licensing

By CJ • October 18, 2011

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police last week shut down an improperly licensed host club in Ikebukuro, reports the Sankei Shimbun (Oct. 18).

Hostess stabs host in Kabukicho hotel

By CJ • September 2, 2011

A hostess stabbed a host in Tokyo’s Kabukicho entertainment district following a dispute early yesterday morning, reports Zakzak (Sep. 2).

Housewife hooked on host club hunks amasses debilitating debt

By CJ • February 28, 2011

A mother of two confesses to 3 million yen in debts at a host club

‘Carnivorous women’ with yen for men find licking to their liking

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • July 17, 2010

With growing numbers of hesitant, herbivorous males matched by more assertive, carnivorous females, sex in Japan has truly turned topsy-turvy. Nikkan Gendai (July 17) reports that increasingly libidinous Japanese women have been flocking to discreet “sensual massage parlors,” where they pay to be pampered by young hunks.

Delinquents, dust-ups and drunken dames — Kabukicho drifts downward

By Kenji Nakano • April 17, 2010

Tokyo’s Kabukicho area as captured at night by the camera of photographer Hajime Kiyohira is seen to be increasingly turning into a Mecca for Japan’s youth, similar to Shibuya, reports Flash (Apr. 20) in a special pull-out section.

Japan’s cunning bottakuri bars con compliant customers

By Kenji Nakano • January 30, 2010

Osaka ‘girl’s bars’ are a hotbed of trouble

Suspected ‘black widow’ Kanae Kijima with possible ties to nightclub host

By Kenji Nakano • December 3, 2009

Suspect linked to 6 suspicious deaths

Creative new commerce keeps Kabukicho hopping

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • October 7, 2009

“First it was Koma Stadium, which shut its doors last New Year’s Eve,” a local mutters. “Now it’s the Kabukicho McDonald’s outlet, which closed on Aug. 31. I think the place went under because it became a hangout for bar hostesses waiting for the trains to start running and homeless people, who just sat there nursing a cup of coffee.”

Tohoku red-light town looks to Tokyo’s Kabukicho for revival

By Kenji Nakano • September 30, 2009

Hard-hit by Japan’s recession, various business and long-term building owners came together last month in the district, located in the city’s Aoba Ward, to form the “Kokubuncho Development Project,” whose aim is to enhance the brand of the city — which has shared a style similar to the restaurants, bars and clubs found in Tokyo’s Shimbashi and Ginza districts.