Ikebukuro
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.
By Kenji Nakano • November 1, 2011
Growth in sales of drugs designed to fall within a legal gray zone
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).
By Kenji Nakano • October 17, 2011
Yoshiwara is known as the country’s largest soapland brothel area
By CJ • September 30, 2011
Tokyo policearrested the principals involved in the sale and copying of uncensored adult video DVDs
By Kazutaka Shimanaka • September 4, 2011
‘These days it’s not rare at all to see two women going into a room together’
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)
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.
By Amy Takahashi • August 8, 2010
Glut of gals on summer break and harsh economy combining for good times
By CJ • June 13, 2010
Daughter of gangster releases her follow-up book to “Yakuza Moon”