Tokyo

Tokyo hooker club busted for operating from apartments, government employee arrested

By CJ • May 3, 2012

Lent rooms to a Chinese woman who ran massage parlors

Japan’s first ‘cleavage cafe’ opens in Tokyo, offers shoe shines

By Kenji Nakano • April 25, 2012

Coffee, manga, and clean footwear

Customer rejected by hostess, attempts to torch club

By CJ • April 20, 2012

7 customers were inside when the suspect allegedly attempted to set the club ablaze

Tokyo cops seize 6,600 uncensored porn DVDs in Kabukicho raid

By CJ • April 6, 2012

Cops raid porn DVD shop Dragon@V in Kabukicho, arrest manager

Japan current account surplus falls to its lowest since 1996, Reuters says

By Michael Blaskoski • February 8, 2012

Japan’s current-account surplus fell 44 percent in 2011 from the previous year to $125 billion (9.63 trillion yen); that is its lowest since 1996 and its biggest fall on record.

Tokyo men arrested for employing 15-year-old Chiba girl in prostitution service

By CJ • November 15, 2011

Kanagawa prefectural police arrested two men from Tokyo for violating the Child Welfare Act after it was discovered that an out-call sex service under their management was utilizing a teenage girl, reports the Sankei Shimbun (Nov. 15).

Post-traumatic stress

By CJ • May 10, 2011

Post-traumatic stress

Tokyo rad

By CJ • April 1, 2011

Radiation leaks from the damaged nuclear reactor cores at the Fukushima Nucelar Power Station have sparked panic as far away as Europe and the United States.

Don’t drink the water (in Tokyo)

By CJ • March 24, 2011

Don’t drink the water (in Tokyo)

Somewhere in Tokyo: Morning commute

By CJ • March 24, 2011

Somewhere in Tokyo: Morning commute