The woman was 22 when she began working in a “soap land” brothel in the renowned Yoshiwara red-light district of Tokyo. She started to work in the sex industry in her teens and spent a total ...

In Yoshiwara’s heyday, it is said that several thousand “yujo” prostitutes worked there. The red-light district, shut down after the Anti-Prostitution Law fully took effect in 1958, is now a ...

Hideaki Yoshiwara, 44-year-old resident of Tokyo’s Bunkyo Ward, Kazuki Yoshii, 53, and Kazuyuki Takahashi, 47, are suspected ...

The area is still referred to as Yoshiwara, for the pleasure quarters of the same name that flourished here during the Edo Period (1603-1868). It’s also the birthplace of Tsutaya Juzaburo ...

Both feature the 'yoshiwara tsunagi' pattern, which Kimono Retailer describes as a "striped pattern made by joining together ...