It's late morning and steam is rising from water tanks atop the colourful but opaque-windowed "soapland" sex parlours in a ...

An alleged prostitution ring targeting foreign tourists in Tokyo's Kabukicho entertainment and red light district may have earned 1.1 billion yen ($7.4 million) across two locations since 2021, police ...

TOKYO -- Japanese media reported this week that police have arrested several men accused of sexual assault of their underaged ...

Seven men have been arrested in connection with prostitution targeting foreign tourists at a brothel in Tokyo’s Kabukicho red-light district. Kazuki Sudo, 54, the manager of Sparaku, is ...

The latest arrest of a senior member of the group Access highlights an extensive industry preying on debt-ridden women.

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 ...

Police received 2,776 consultations nationwide related to host clubs last year, with many involving women coerced into sex ...

TOKYO (TR) – A male Korean national from a sex-industry scouting group in Osaka Prefecture accused of tricking a woman into ...

Prosecutors said Koichiro Ito paid a 15-year-old girl 20,000 yen (S$180) for sex in 2023. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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 ...