Bunshun Online has published a three-part interview with a 16-year-old Japanese sex worker who, she claims, has sold her body to over 50 men in Kabukicho.
But unlike other similar tales, Kanae (not her real name) wasn't doing this because she was in debt or had run away from home. Her motive was simply to get money "to have fun."
And it apparently paid off, literally: she earned ¥140,000 on her best days and had sex with over 50 men.
"I don't remember exactly," she says, but estimates she earned at least ¥2 million during her time as a streetwalker.
"A middle-aged man even asked me to ...
What happens to all those millions of yen that flow through the coffers of Japan's hostess clubs?
A lot goes into the pockets of the hard-working hostesses, of course, plus plenty is spent the expensive decor and upkeep of the venue.
Not very much goes to the taxman, it seems.
At the end of September 2025, a high-end hostess club in Roppongi was found to have concealed approximately ¥500 million in income. In addition to Fabric Lounge Tokyo's owners reporting lower income and fabricating fictitious expenses, the National Tax Agency said that some of the top hostesses themselves had failed ...
On October 10, 2025, Sapporo police arrested three men living in the city's Chuo Ward on suspicion of violating the Anti-Prostitution Act.
According to a report by Sapporo TV, the arrested men were a 55-year-old man running a sex entertainment establishment, a 41-year-old man, and a 50-year-old man, both of whom worked at soapland-style brothels.
The men are suspected of conspiring to provide a venue for prostitution at a bathhouse's private rooms in the ward, knowing that the prostitutes were engaging in sex work with customers. The charges relate to activities up to September.
Initially ...
Miporin (Miporin-sama) is known as one of most high-profile dominatrixes in Tokyo. She works for the 11 Channel soapland in Yoshiwara (and claims to be the only latex fetish specialist dom working in that famous district) and the BDSM members' club Dominant Tokyo. Heavily tattooed, the half-Chinese, half-Filipino mistress is also known for her cheerful personality that completely contrasts with the aggressive image of a dominatrix.
The self-professed "rubber queen" gave an interview to Spa! last month and we have translated some of the highlights below.
How did she get her first ...
One of the biggest stories over the summer was the arrest of four Okubo Park prostitutes for defrauding foreign men. The women seemed to encapsulate all the elements of the tachinbo (streetwalker) moral panic: desperate girls, swiped wallets, horny tourists, and addiction to host clubs.
With claims that they had made hundreds of thousands of dollars over two years and that cases of fraud with customers were on the rise, these four sparked a febrile reaction from netizens, who nicknamed them the Four Heavenly Kings of tachinbo (after the Buddhist protectors of the world).
Shueisha Online ...
Given the unregulated nature of the sex industry and the recent proliferation of dodgy, host-addicted young ladies doing tachinbo (streetwalking), it's expected that a client might be on guard, worried about losing his wallet or receiving a visit from the cops because the girl is actually underage.
What they might not expect is for the prostitute to dob you into the cops!
That's what happened at a hotel in Kitakyushu, where an elementary school teacher was arrested after a call girl tipped off police over the presence of weed, which was wrapped in paper and disguised as a ...
With the yen so cheap and inflation relatively low, the hordes of tourists flocking to Japan today enjoy a great time in the country. On the other hand, many people able to work abroad are doing so to earn more money than they can get in Japan. This includes sex workers, who have recently turned to places like Hong Kong, South Korea, China, Dubai, the United States, and Southeast Asia.
Legal website Bengoshi JP recently focused on the phenomenon of Japanese migrant sex workers, interviewing two examples of women with experience of working overseas.
One woman has been to Manila twice, Taiwan ...
Friday has published an interview with a teenager who is a tachinbo streetwalker in Okubo Park to pay for her host club addiction.
"I've become addicted to host clubs and now I'm working in Kabukicho," the teenager confesses, saying she has sex with three men a day for ¥20,000 a pop.
"My day and night cycle is reversed. I sleep until the afternoon and head to Kabukicho in the evening. I stand in front of a hotel until dawn, waiting for a man to approach me."
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrested 35 women in their 20s to 40s on suspicion of violating the Anti-Prostitution Act ...
Ria Shinba works at the soapland New Tiara in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture. She is the main attraction of the soapland and has previously worked as a child actor and porn star.
In a recent two-part interview with Shueisha Online last month, the 23-year-old explained about her background, and how she came to the profession. We've translated some of the highlights.
Shinba was born in Tokyo's Suginami ward to a Japanese father and Filipino mother. When her mother became pregnant with her, their marriage became strained, and since she already had an older sister, her father told her mother ...
The post-COVID uptick in streetwalkers in the Okubo Park area of Kabukicho, Tokyo, has been a media obsession for some time in Japan, generating a moral panic over the young age of the women and also some embarrassment because it has coincided with the huge rise in tourist numbers in Japan.
In the age of social media, going to rubberneck the lines of prostitutes at Okubo Park has become an activity for tourists to do as well as contributed to the notion that Tokyo is already a destination for sex tourism like Bangkok. Of course, approaching women on the street does not come without risk and ...
