soapland

Proliferation of fake ID cards assist minors seeking work in sex trade

By Kenji Nakano • May 25, 2012

A health insurance card and a scanner are all it takes

Kobe soapland busted for employing 13-year-old girl

By CJ • April 16, 2012

An anonymous tip regarding led police to the establishment

Fuzoku files: What to do if a major earthquake strikes when in a soapland

By Amy Takahashi • February 18, 2012

What do if the Big One strikes when in the middle of a sex session

Tokyo times: Old boys still wanna have fun

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • January 20, 2012

“It was five or six years ago that I first began to notice more elderly men were going to soaplands,” the unnamed artist, a resident of Tokyo’s former licensed brothel quarters for over half a century, tells Sunday Mainichi (Jan. 29).

AV producer: One in 200 Japanese women performed in porn

By Amy Takahashi • December 27, 2011

Numbers crunched by production company employee

Japanese television stations also rife with yakuza ties

By Kenji Nakano • November 21, 2011

Shinsuke Shimada’s resignation over the summer puts the spotlight on connections between gangsters and the entertainment world

Soapland brothel ban in Ishikawa onsen resort town steams residents

By CJ • November 5, 2011

Citizens in Katayamazu onsen district taking sides over brothels

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

NPB players shunning high-end soaplands for extra-inning erotic endeavors

By Amy Takahashi • August 24, 2011

Serious stick-playing begins after each game’s last out

Radiation fears fuel abuse of Fukushima fuzoku gals

By Amy Takahashi • June 22, 2011

It has been widely reported that products sourced from the agriculture and fisheries industries of Fukushiima Prefecture have faced intense scrutiny since the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11. But who would have thought that bias would bode for blow-jobs, too?