Yoshiwara

No kitties admitted to the cat house

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • October 22, 2009

But wait; why would a respectable woman want to go to a whorehouse in the first place? Because she’s a feisty female fuzoku writer, Nikkan Gendai (Oct. 22) reports, in the latest installment of a series titled “Fuzokukai no Yami” (the dark side of the sex business).

What’s in a name? Soaplands still going strong 25 years on

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • June 26, 2009

December 19 will mark a quarter century since operators of the erotic bathhouses became known as soaplands

Cops’ crackdown threatens to prick soapland bubble

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • June 10, 2009

Police raid pimping parlor openly operating in the guise of a coffee shop

Golden Week looks good for getting it on

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • April 24, 2009

Available: 70-minute romp in the suds with a lovely soapstress

New Yoshiwara soapland targets lusty middles

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • August 6, 2008

Sex businesses must constantly come up with creative new promotional ideas