waiting for customers for the purpose of prostitution is illegal. However, the law only applies to women. On the other hand, the Tokyo ordinance prohibits soliciting and waiting for customers for ...

Japanese police have ramped up crackdowns on sex worker scout groups amid a worrying trend of women going into prostitution to pay off debts incurred at entertainment clubs. Tokyo police on ...

With foreign tourists converging on Japan in record-breaking numbers, it probably shouldn't be surprising that more sex businesses have begun welcoming their patronage. A reporter for Shukan Post ...

Ito was first arrested in Tokyo in February and told investigators ... after his name came up in a separate and unrelated child prostitution case. At his trial, prosecutors sought six years ...

prostitution, illegal gambling and blackmail. Belgian photographer Anton Kusters spent two years with a feared Yakuza crime family in Tokyo and was given intimate access to their secretive ...

Denied recognition and even credit for their work until recent times, Japan’s women photographers are challenging and ...

A mentally disabled woman who was forced into prostitution was given a six-year prison term for fatally stabbing an elderly client she was trying to steal from at a Tokyo love hotel. The Tokyo ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese media reported this ... They are also accused of child prostitution and child pornography, the reports said. They allegedly exchanged messages and footage of their attacks ...