Beniko’s photos taken in Japanese red-light districts focus on the buildings and rooms usually hidden from view. Read more at ...

While studying art in the capital, she began working part-time at a small city-centre establishment selling sexual services, ...

To regulate the sex industry, the Yoshiwara red-light district was originally built in ... in this location until the end of Japan's Edo period in 1868, but it went into decline as the country ...

To regulate the sex industry, the Yoshiwara red-light district was originally built in a different part ... Yoshiwara prospered in that location until the end of Japan’s Edo period in 1868, but it ...

Yoshiwara prospered in this location until the end of Japan's Edo period in 1868 ... Unlike the bright, brash Kabukicho red-light district in the central Shinjuku area of Tokyo, until recently ...