It's late morning and steam is rising from water tanks atop the colourful but opaque-windowed "soapland" sex parlours in a historic Tokyo red-light district. Walking through the narrow streets, camera ...

With throbbing lights and giant photos of well-groomed men, Japan’s host clubs are hard to miss.These bars, where women pay to drink and flirt with men, are a cornerstone of the country’s red-light ...

In the palmy days before World War I, no red-light district in the world could boast the gilded wantonness of Tokyo’s Yoshiwara. There, along a garden lane redolent with flower blossoms, the powdered ...

TOKYO — As Japan's defeat marking the end of WWII nears its 80th anniversary, and some events fade from living memory, history is hardly consigned to books. It lives on in unhealed wounds, ...