A University of Tokyo professor was arrested on suspicion of accepting about 1.8 million yen ($11,700) in bribes, including entertainment at high-end clubs and sex-industry “soaplands,” in exchange ...

In Tokyo’s red-light districts, shops advertise services like the menus outside restaurants. Kyakuhiki, or the men who coax customers from the street, carry laminated cards listing prices and options.

Part of the economic stimulus provided by "Abenomics" has resulted in stimulation of the lower anatomy of certain consumer segments, and as one result, the soaplands (erotic bathhouses) in Tokyo's ...

On February 1, the Ikebukuro branch of "Marine Blue Honten," a "soapland" (erotic bathhouse) posted an announcement on X to the effect that it had suspended business operations effective from January ...

TOKYO — It is 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 ...