Since April, more than a dozen host club operators in Tokyo – each owning ... “I think there’s a problem with Japanese ...

The first host club opened in the 1960s ... becoming "an archetype within Japanese popular culture", said Thomas Baudinette, an anthropologist at Macquarie University. Their popularity is partly ...

Around 40 percent of the 35 suspects said they were selling their bodies to make money to visit host clubs or “con cafes,” where underground male idols work. About 10 percent of the women ...

Some host club workers have been found to impose significant debts on female customers and have coerced customers into working in the sex industry to pay off these debts. “In addition to taking ...