sex workers Archives - Unseen Japan

What oppai bars are, how they work, and how Japan's ever-changing entertainment laws helped bring them into being.

A soapland allegedly fired a worker after she was sent home with a fever. Here's the story of how she got her…

Soaplands are one of Japan's most euphemistic open secrets: “special bathhouses” where sex is sold under a legal fiction the country has…

It's been a year since the crackdown, but data show that host clubs haven't changed. If anything, some say they've become "more…

Japanese adult video actress Fukuda Yua says she was turned away at the New Zealand border. While she may have simply been…

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…