By YUKA HONDA/ Staff Writer
March 21, 2022 at 07:10 JST
A monument for “Mikaeri Yanagi” (looking back willow tree) at the entrance to the old Yoshiwara red-light district in Tokyo’s Taito Ward (Yuka Honda)
Shiroshi Nakae, the owner of a century-old restaurant in Tokyo’s Taito Ward, doesn’t want people to get the wrong idea about the charms of the local Yoshiwara area, which hosted a famed pleasure quarter in feudal times. [Read More]
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