Police have intensified their crackdown on prostitutes around Okubo Park in Tokyo’s Kabukicho, Japan’s largest red-light district, where an increasing number of women are seeking cash to visit host ...

Tokyo police said they have arrested a gang of touts who pretended to be working for a well-known “izakaya” pub chain to lure customers to unrelated eateries that charged exorbitant prices. On the ...

"In its heyday, on the streets leading up to Okubo Park, you used to see several dozen girls standing around, trolling for johns," a newspaper reporter on the police beat told Flash (April 7). "It got ...

As the sun dips behind the skyscrapers on a bitterly cold evening, hordes of shoppers swarm towards subway entrances, a blaze of neon flickering in their wake. Within an hour the streets reverberate ...

Japan is famous for being one of the safest countries in the world, but one place locals and guidebooks will warn you about is Tokyo’s Kabukicho. While the area itself isn’t particularly dangerous, ...

Makoto Nagahisa takes a hyper-modern approach to some timeless themes of youth and destruction in his stylized drama, 'Burn.' ...

Tokyo never fails to impress with its constant evolution and redevelopment, and the latest addition to its skyline is the exciting Tokyu Kabukicho Tower! This brand-new, state-of-the-art facility is ...

Until now, Kabukicho had a reputation for being home to the bulk of the city’s host clubs and love hotels, not to mention Shinjuku’s giant Godzilla statue, yet with the opening of #000T – a shop ...

Once notorious as Tokyo’s sketchiest red-light district — and a frequent setting for yakuza movies — Kabukicho has now become a somewhat gentrified lure for hordes of foreign tourists. But as Ren ...