In Japan, you’ll sometimes come across trucks plastered with ads on them. These aren’t delivery trucks whose owners are trying to make a little extra money while on their way to and from drop-offs, ...

On Monday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe lifted Tokyo's state of emergency after the rate of new coronavirus infections and deaths slowed. The state of emergency, effectively a soft lockdown, ...

Staff members of the Tokyo metropolitan government wearing face masks hold signs as they call people to stay home in the Kabukicho entertainment area on April 11, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo Governor ...

You have to give her credit. Lots of party girls placate themselves by "gathering material" for a memoir that never gets written, but Lea Jacobson actually untangled herself from alcohol and ...

Nightclubs and hostess bars in Tokyo are to be paid to close after the Japanese capital recorded 224 coronavirus cases on Thursday, the highest daily tally since the pandemic began. Authorities had ...

Haywood, a Canadian model who was 20 when the events of this book occurred, reassured herself and her husband, Matt, that working as a Tokyo hostess in an upscale Roppongi bar was more akin to being a ...

A "silent scream" text message device will be launched today by a charity set up in the name of murdered Tokyo hostess Lucie Blackman. The high-tech gadget forms part of a campaign aimed at helping ...

A Japanese businessman has been acquitted of raping and killing British bar hostess Lucie Blackman in 2000. But he was convicted of killing an Australian hostess, Carita Ridgway. Carita and Lucie were ...

As a hostess at a club in Shinjuku Kabuki-cho, Emiri Aizawa, 27, pours drinks, lights cigarettes and listens to men. "My main job is let them have fun," she says. "Of course, there have been customers ...