At 10 p.m. on a recent Friday at a bar in Tokyo’s Kabukicho red-light district, young men in suits weave between tables, pouring drinks for their first customers of the evening. Under the glimmer of ...

Tokyo's Shibuya Ward is expected to ban drinking alcohol in public at night, an extension of restrictions that were put in place for Halloween and New Year's Eve starting in 2019. Shibuya authorities ...

Host clubs, where young male staff "pamper and flatter" female guests, are "booming" in Japan. Some 21,000 male hosts work at 900 of these lucrative establishments but opaque prices for drinks and a ...

Neatly coiffured, well-dressed "hosts" bedazzle women with sweet talk and the mirage of intimacy at glitzy establishments in big Japanese cities. In return, the women pay inflated prices for champagne ...

Police in Japan have confirmed the arrest of four men on charges of forcibly recruiting victims into the sex industry abroad, following raids on 729 “host clubs” accused of preying on women customers, ...