Since April, more than a dozen host club operators in Tokyo – each owning several venues – said they would refuse entry to ...

TOKYO -- An employee at a "host club" in the Japanese capital's Kabukicho entertainment district has been arrested for allegedly forcing a woman into prostitution to pay her tab, the Metropolitan ...

The daughter, who fell deeply into the host club culture of Tokyo’s Kabukicho district, left home and has since cut all ties. "How did it come to this?" the mother wonders daily. She worries ...

Police have intensified their crackdown on prostitutes around Okubo Park in Tokyo’s Kabukicho ... number of women are seeking cash to visit host clubs and “idol” cafes.

A host’s flattering words were enough to enchant a Tokyo woman in her 20s. But it was a “kake” pay-later mechanism at the club that pushed her into heavy debt and eventual work in the sex ...