A former Japanese lawmaker was on Feb 3 given a three-year suspended jail term for raping a 12-year-old girl in 2024, ...

Nightlife entertainment districts are ... Foot traffic in the Nakasu district of Fukuoka in southern Japan increased by 37 percent compared with the figure a week ago, according to an estimate ...

Japan’s largest red-light district, where an increasing number of women are seeking cash to visit host clubs and “idol” cafes. The Metropolitan Police Department arrested 80 women aged ...

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 ...