The malicious business practices of "host clubs" in Japan have emerged as a social problem, and there is an urgent need to tackle the issue. There has been a string of cases where female customers ...

Host clubs, where young male staff "pamper and flatter" female guests, are "booming" in Japan. Some 21,000 male hosts work at 900 of these lucrative establishments but opaque prices for drinks and ...

International scrutiny of Tokyo’s Kabukicho district exposes links between host clubs, debt, and street prostitution. Critics ...

"We have to borrow players from other clubs in the school, and it's not always easy to get them to come." Japan's high school population has plunged by about 50 percent over the last 30 years.