THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
October 29, 2020 at 19:00 JST
A pedestrian-only road that connects JR Shinjuku Station and the Kabukicho red-light district is nicknamed as “scout street” after men who offer women work in the nightlife industry. (Nobuaki Tanaka)
A brawl that erupted in Tokyo’s Kabukicho, Japan's largest red-light district, was apparently a flareup in a simmering turf war between a yakuza crime syndicate and a well-financed, aggressive “scouting” organization. [Read More]
Here is a collection of first-hand accounts by “hibakusha” atomic bomb survivors.
A peek through the music industry’s curtain at the producers who harnessed social media to help their idols go global.
Cooking experts, chefs and others involved in the field of food introduce their special recipes intertwined with their paths in life.
A series based on diplomatic documents declassified by Japan’s Foreign Ministry
A series about Japanese-Americans and their memories of World War II
