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

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 ...

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 ...

but one group that has traditionally gotten a lot of attention from tourists and residents alike is Japanese host club hosts. Yes, the flirty, well-dressed guys who get paid to pay attention and ...

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

Japanese host and hostess clubs must act quickly to ensure they abide by rules to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus after nightlife districts became new hot spots in a resurgence of ...