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 ...

Walking through the narrow streets, camera in hand, is Beniko -- a former sex worker who is now trying to capture the spirit of the area once known as Yoshiwara through photography. "People often ...

Shiroshi Nakae, the owner of a century-old restaurant in Tokyo’s Taito Ward, doesn’t want people to get the wrong idea about the charms of the local Yoshiwara area, which hosted a famed ...

Show more Show less Beniko, a former sex worker, is now trying to capture the spirit of a historic Tokyo red-light district through photography In its mid-17th to 19th century heyday, Yoshiwara ...