Hideaki Yoshiwara, 44-year-old resident of Tokyo’s Bunkyo Ward, Kazuki Yoshii, 53, and Kazuyuki Takahashi, 47, are suspected ...

The woman was 22 when she began working in a “soap land” brothel in the renowned Yoshiwara red-light district of Tokyo. She started to work in the sex industry in her teens and spent a total ...

In Yoshiwara’s heyday, it is said that several thousand “yujo” prostitutes worked there. The red-light district, shut down after the Anti-Prostitution Law fully took effect in 1958, is now a ...

The area is still referred to as Yoshiwara, for the pleasure quarters of the same name that flourished here during the Edo Period (1603-1868). It’s also the birthplace of Tsutaya Juzaburo ...

Both feature the 'yoshiwara tsunagi' pattern, which Kimono Retailer describes as a "striped pattern made by joining together ...