Until then, she didn’t know what Yoshiwara was famous for or where it ... sex industry districts of the early postwar period. Japan’s licensed prostitution system was abolished in 1946.

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

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 ...

9.7 x 30.6 cm. (3.8 x 12 in.) ...

Interest has spread among Japanese since Tsutaya Juzaburo ... Ohya Shobo owns many books produced by Tsutaya, including “Yoshiwara Saiken,” a guidebook for visitors to Tokyo’s Yoshiwara ...

We visit the Yoshiwara district, Edo's most prominent pleasure quarters. Among the lavish spenders, courtesans and apprentices, small humanoid creatures scurry about -- what could they be up to?