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 ...

“Kabukicho is not what it used to be, Japan’s No. 1 nightlife district. There is nothing left of it,” he said. The pandemic apparently changed the minds of people in terms of how to spend ...

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 ...