On December 5, Tokushima Prefectural Assembly approved the resignation of assemblymember Hiroshi Furukawa, who was arrested at a Tokyo hotel on suspicion of secretly filming a woman working at a delivery health (outcall) adult entertainment establishment.
He is a representative of the prefectural headquarters for Komeito, known as the "clean government" party and affiliated with the Buddhist religious movement Soka Gakkai.
He was arrested on the night of November 28 at a hotel in Akasaka, Tokyo, on suspicion of violating the Act on Punishment of Sexual Photography, for secretly filming the ...
Does regular sex with a prostitute count as adultery? It's not just a moral question, but a legal one, because it could be grounds for divorce and a lawsuit, since an aggrieved spouse can sue the lover in Japan for damages if it can be proved they knew the man or woman was married.
FNN recently reported on a father of four married for 24 years who had a secret. He was secretly meeting a woman he met at a brothel at a love hotel once a month, paying her ¥30,000 each time. Upon learning of his betrayal, his wife directed her anger at the other woman, and sued her for ¥3.3 million.
All three ...
Here's a story so horrible that it made us practically spit our coffee out when we first read it in the Japanese-language media last Friday.
On November 6, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police announced the arrest of a 51-year-old male owner of a massage parlor on suspicion of violating the Labor Standards Act by employing a 12-year-old Thai girl.
The girl first came to Japan with her mother and police believe she was a victim of human trafficking. She was forced to provide sexual services to male customers at the parlor.
According to the announcement that was widely reported by media outlets, ...
According to an article in Weekly Women Prime, Japan is seeing a rapid rise in the number of establishments offering sexual services to women from male "therapists."
The claim is based on extensive research by a manga artist, Yachinatsu (pictured), who has published on the topic of sexual services for women. Her manga Do Women Need Sex Entertainment Prostitution? has sold over 300,000 in Japan and been translated into English.
While the industry has become accessible enough that married people and those even in their sixties and seventies are using the services she says various risks must ...
The tabloid Spa! recently ran an interview with a 33-year-old, heavily tattooed employee in the construction industry who goes by the online name Cyber Lisapi.
Lisapi did compensated dating from junior high school and has also worked at a brothel (fuzoku). Her colorful past also includes addiction to illegal drugs.
In the interview, she shares more about her turbulent life. We've shared some edited highlights below.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, her childhood was unsettled.
"My parents divorced when I was about six years old. My mother worked as a hostess at a club, so I don't think she had ...
Just yesterday we posted about the gang of eight thieves who allegedly beat and robbed a foreign man who had picked up a streetwalker. The issue of young streetwalkers, known as tachinbo in Japanese, in the Kabukicho area of Shinjuku, especially around Okubo Park, has become a huge social panic, with media reports and police crackdowns appearing almost weekly, along with the Toyoko kids delinquency problem.
To help explain the tachinbo issue, the manga artist Sugimura (also known as Sugiyan) created a short comic in English as part of the This Is Japan! series. It was published online on ...
A gang has been arrested for robbing and assaulting a foreign man as he exited a love hotel with a prostitute he had picked up in Shinjuku, Tokyo.
The eight people allegedly surrounded the man in his fifties, taunted him for his actions and threatened to tell others, and then beat and robbed him of the cash he was carrying -- ¥1.1 million -- in a rucksack. With that much cash on his person, he was either a bit naive or planning to have a lot of fun in Kabukicho.
The incident took place back in February this year and the victim required a month to recover from his injuries. Earlier in ...
An article by former porn star Aya Takanashi (pictured below) in Maidona News recently reported on the Japanese version of the tang ping or "lying flat" trend that originated in China for rejecting overwork and the pressure to achieve.
It is similar to the notion of "quiet quitting" or NEET, a sociological term for people not in full-time work or education/training that became popular as a label in Japan in the years after the bubble economy collapsed.
The article focuses on the nightlife version of this phenomenon, claiming that such "lying flat" people account for 30 or 40 percent of ...
Bunshun Online has published a three-part interview with a 16-year-old Japanese sex worker who, she claims, has sold her body to over 50 men in Kabukicho.
But unlike other similar tales, Kanae (not her real name) wasn't doing this because she was in debt or had run away from home. Her motive was simply to get money "to have fun."
And it apparently paid off, literally: she earned ¥140,000 on her best days and had sex with over 50 men.
"I don't remember exactly," she says, but estimates she earned at least ¥2 million during her time as a streetwalker.
"A middle-aged man even asked me to ...
What happens to all those millions of yen that flow through the coffers of Japan's hostess clubs?
A lot goes into the pockets of the hard-working hostesses, of course, plus plenty is spent the expensive decor and upkeep of the venue.
Not very much goes to the taxman, it seems.
At the end of September 2025, a high-end hostess club in Roppongi was found to have concealed approximately ¥500 million in income. In addition to Fabric Lounge Tokyo's owners reporting lower income and fabricating fictitious expenses, the National Tax Agency said that some of the top hostesses themselves had failed ...
