Shibuya

After brief spurt of demand, love hotel businesses left reeling in wake of the quake

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • April 19, 2011

Nikkan Gendai (Apr. 20) is 17 installments along in a series that professes to track the looming “economic depression” caused by the March 11 catastrophe in Tohoku.

Meanwhile, in Shibuya

By CJ • April 6, 2011

One of the potentially most damaging side effects of the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent crisis now gripping Japan is an austerity campaign.

Earthquake! Panic-stricken customers, girls seen fleeing Shibuya sex shop

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • March 13, 2011

Years from now when men reminisce over the great earthquake of March 11, 2011, only a few will be able to answer, “I was right in the middle of getting laid, and believe me, it was no fun!”

Samurai spirit: Liberated Japanese lasses turn seductresses in name of country

By Kenji Nakano • January 6, 2011

This may be the Year of the Rabbit, but Nikkan Gendai (Jan. 1) predicts that Japanese women will not be satisfied nibbling on mere carrots.

Shibuya underground: Tokyu to link Fukutoshin and Toyoko lines in 2012

By CJ • November 26, 2010

Tokyu offers a glimpse at the ongoing underground construction project in Shibuya

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

Tokyo college seniors expelled over project ‘to protect ugly women’

By CJ • July 1, 2010

Two seniors develop a project named “Dobusu wo Mamoru Kai” (group to protect ugly women)

Busted Tokyo call-girl service’s VIP customer list has cops licking chops

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • June 13, 2010

Charged with having sent a 27-year-old ‘campaign girl’ service four male customers at hotels in Shibuya

Sex-trade tabloid Tokyo Manzoku News to cease publication

By CJ • April 25, 2010

The sex-service tip sheet will be issued for the final time next month

Crummy Shibuya girl scouter nabbed with hand in cookie jar

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • April 22, 2010

At long last, the Tokyo government finally got around to passing an ordinance prohibiting men to approach women on the street and solicit them to take jobs in the sex industry. And recently, reports Nikkan Gendai (Apr. 21), Yusuke Yoshino, a 30-year-old operator of a massage joint in Shibuya, and three of his cohorts were arrested for violating the ordinance.