Maid cafes appeared in Akihabara around the year 2000. This novel idea of having girls dressed as maids interacting with customers became a huge sensation. Now, many maid cafes are establishing ...

On a humid Wednesday night the streets of Kabukicho, Tokyo’s most famous red-light district, hum with people. Some are tourists, here to gawp and take selfies, but others are customers. Adverts for ...

There’s a street in Tokyo known as "JK alley", or "schoolgirl alley", from the Japanese Joshi Kosei, meaning high school girl. There, teenagers in school uniform sell their time to passers-by, while ...