Japan opened its first baby hatch, called Konotori no Yurigago, or stork’s cradle, nearly two decades ago in 2007, in Jikei ...

In February, Tokyo police announced the arrest of Kazuki Sudo, age 54, the proprietor of Sparaku, a sex shop catering to foreign tourists. Six other people at Sudo's establishment were hauled in on ...

TOKYO: Japan's largest yakuza organised crime body submitted a written pledge to authorities to end its wars with splinter ...

Japan is worried that South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol's removal from power will undo the improvements in bilateral ...

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 ...

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 ...

who worked as prostitutes for Japanese troops before and during World War II. With this memory still fresh in the minds of Japanese government people, Tokyo will watch the moves of conservative ...

Curators such as Kasahara Michiko (the chief curator at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum ... in Yokohama was shot just ahead of a 1958 anti-prostitution law. A member of the Vivo photographic ...

The German was surrounded by beautiful prostitutes and unsuccessfully tried ... now a city in western Tokyo. They arrived in Hachioji on the afternoon of June 19 and stayed there for about four ...