By • 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).
By • October 17, 2011
Yoshiwara is known as the country’s largest soapland brothel area
By • August 24, 2011
Serious stick-playing begins after each game’s last out
By • May 13, 2011
Sex workers are people too, and they yearn for marriage and family. The fact that many come from broken homes, suggests Nikkan Gendai (May 10), is all the more reason why they desire a normal family life for themselves.
By • January 21, 2011
A line forms 20 minutes before opening
By • July 4, 2010
For a rundown of the top-ten stories thus far in 2010 in the fuzoku trade — that is,
businesses offering sexual services — weekly tabloid Shukan Asahi Geino (July 8) turned to Yoshikazu Murazaki, the editor-in-chief of monthly entertainment guide Manzoku.
By • June 15, 2010
Customer blacklist for a famous sex shop in Nagoya leaked onto the Internet
By • April 21, 2010
Determining that an ad in a recent edition of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper was a tad over the top — given the appearance of a popular adult video (AV) actress — weekly tabloid Shukan Bunshun (Apr. 22) defends its typically titillating turf by calling the conservative daily into account for its actions.
By • February 10, 2010
In September 2008, a 23-year-old employee of a cabaret club (kyabakura) approached real estate operator Yu Shimojo, 41, for a loan, saying she needed money to care for her sick parents. Shimojo said he would lend her 850,000 yen on the condition that she work it off in a Yoshiwara soapland.
By • December 24, 2009
The writer of the series “Heisei soap-gai onna to kane sugoi hanashi” (Fantastic tales of women and money at Heisei-era soaplands) reports in Nikkan Gendai (Dec. 21) that it’s become quite common for elderly men to drop into Yoshiwara for some tender, loving care.
Distraught father-in-law wins incestuous consolation prize
Proliferation of fake ID cards assist minors seeking work in sex trade
Re-porn: AV industry relying on rising popularity of ‘mature’ actresses
Out-call sex services in Tokyo compete for piece of papa-sans’ pensions
Osaka ‘girl’s bar’ employed 12-year-old girl
