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 ...

A Japanese court on Monday sentenced a former member of the House of Representatives to three years in prison, suspended for ...

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 ...

Police arrested 140 women this year for soliciting customers for prostitution in Japan’s largest ... on-site inspections of host clubs in the Kabukicho district twice, to ensure compliance ...