sex workers Archives - Unseen Japan

A majority of voices are clamoring for Japan to criminalize prostitution buyers. Here’s why the country's sex worker advocates oppose that.

The Tatsumi Geisha were the first female geisha of Japan. And they owe their existence to a woman driven out of her…

Few prominent figures or politicians in Japan are willing to talk about the negative impact the law has had on Japan's porn…

The man allegedly forced her to do papa-katsu (sugar-babying), arranging meetings with men and keeping most of the money.

Mikami Yua thought she was just wearing a nice dress. Then a bride-to-be found the star's Instagram and they both went viral.

The recent arrest of four women in a prostitution ring operating near Okubo Park highlights how the area has grown in popularity.

By day, 49-year-old Takitani Hiroshi conducted life-saving research on earthquakes. By night, he was running an unlicensed sex shop.

For the first time, a court in Japan rules that hosts taking kickbacks from routing indebted customers to sex shops breaks the…