Host clubs are bars where young male hosts serve women drinks and charm them with conversation. Typically, one evening can cost a group hundreds of thousands of yen, sometimes even millions.

Tokyo, March 31 (Jiji Press)--The Special Committee on Political Reform of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of ...

Tokyo, March 31 (Jiji Press)--Major food and beverage makers are planning markups for 4,225 products in Japan in April, ...

Seoul, March 29 (Jiji Press)--A declassified South Korean diplomatic record has revealed how certain songs were exceptionally ...

Many small businesses in Japan face the issue of finding a successor to continue running them, as children of the current owners often show no interest in taking over. The M&A broker service ...

The possibilities of holding the same-day elections and expanding the ruling coalition, which currently consists of the ...

The forerunner of kanten is tokoroten noodles, created by boiling tengusa or similar seaweed, setting the strained liquid into blocks and then using a special press cutter to form it into noodles.

It found that pregnant women exposed to secondhand smoke for four to seven days a week and at least an hour a day had 2.34 ...

Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Pref., March 31 (Jiji Press)--The Air Self-Defense Force's Blue Impulse aerobatics team will make a ...

Tokyo, March 29 (Jiji Press)--Inui Street at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo was opened to the public Saturday for this year's ...

Beginning 1 p.m. the same day, women can anonymously drop off their babies up to four weeks old round the clock at a place in ...