Police in Tokyo have started patrolling Ueno, Shinjuku, Roppongi and other red light districts to warn businesses, such as restaurants, bars and clubs, not to respond to gangs' demands for money. The ...

HIDDEN behind — or sometimes even in plain sight of — historical landmarks and museums in these cities lies a seedy underbelly tempting tourists. The risqué lure of these lewd, neon neighbourhoods ...

WHETHER they’re spoken about openly or in hushed tones, there are corners of almost every major tourist city across the globe where the sex trade thrives. From Nevada to Amsterdam, Paris, and Bangkok, ...

TOKYO -- An area near Nishi-Kawaguchi Station, just north of Tokyo, used to be a bustling red-light district. The adult entertainment businesses that once populated the area have since given way to ...

Indonesia aims to shut down all of the country's red-light districts by 2019 in a bid to eradicate prostitution in the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation, the Jakarta Post said late Tuesday, ...