Ikebukuro

Tokyo troubles: What do love hotels do with their lost & found items?

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • November 11, 2011

It seems that people who enter and leave love hotels have a lot of things on their minds. Like what will soon be transpiring after they get inside the room. Or not being spotted together.

New law to clamp down on Osaka’s ‘legal herb’ market

By Kenji Nakano • November 1, 2011

Growth in sales of drugs designed to fall within a legal gray zone

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).

Tokyo trends: Plucky pensioners picking up prostitutes with pay packets

By Kenji Nakano • October 17, 2011

Yoshiwara is known as the country’s largest soapland brothel area

50,000 uncensored porn DVDs seized in Tokyo raid

By CJ • September 30, 2011

Tokyo policearrested the principals involved in the sale and copying of uncensored adult video DVDs

Dateline Tokyo: Lesbian love services in demand by guyless gals game to get it on

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • September 4, 2011

‘These days it’s not rare at all to see two women going into a room together’

Tohoku tremors send sex-service gals scampering southward

By Kenji Nakano • April 29, 2011

While the general mood of consumer self restraint that has followed the Great East Japan Earthquake has extended to Kansai, that area’s fuzoku industry — the commercial sex trade, to be clear — is showing signs of stimulation, reports Shukan Jitsuwa (May 5)

Japan’s deflation driving down prices of short-time sex

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • December 12, 2010

Nikkan Gendai (Dec. 11) reports that now the sex industry has got into the act, with discount coupons for sex shops.

Summertime, and the hookin’ is easy, Johns are jumpin,’ and the gals are high

By Amy Takahashi • August 8, 2010

Glut of gals on summer break and harsh economy combining for good times

The celestial journey of Shoko Tendo

By CJ • June 13, 2010

Daughter of gangster releases her follow-up book to “Yakuza Moon”