It's late morning and steam is rising from water tanks atop the colourful but opaque-windowed "soapland" sex parlours in a historic Tokyo ... and active red-light districts in Japan.

As most travelers know, Tokyo is huge ... if you do plan to enjoy the nightlife, be selective about where you choose to party. Shinjuku, especially the red-light district of Kabukicho, has ...

Young Japanese women standing idly around a park in Tokyo’s west suggest that a giant ... as a dark flipside to the bustling Kabukicho nightlife district. There is no official data but anecdotal ...

A 19-year-old woman who works at a “girl’s bar” in Tokyo is well aware that ... the risk of infections by patrolling red-light districts at night. (This article was written by Natsuki ...

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In contrast, today the same point is marked by two plain pillars, and the brothels of the area in eastern Tokyo are often ... of former and active red-light districts in Japan.

TOKYO — It is late morning and steam is rising from water tanks atop the colourful but opaque-windowed "soapland" sex parlours in a historic Tokyo red-light district. Walking through the narrow ...

Yoshiwara prospered in that location until the end of Japan’s Edo period in 1868, but it went into decline as the country modernized and when sex work was outlawed in 1958. Beniko’s photographs, taken ...