Photographer Daidō Moriyama has been capturing gritty photos of Japan's Shinjuku district since the 1960s. Currently on display at the LA County Museum of Art until July 31st, hit the thumbs to ...
Explore some 200 bars in this narrow maze of alleyways. A remnant of post-war 1950s Tokyo, this district was once a black market that evolved into a number of small, makeshift bars. Today, stretched ...
In the palmy days before World War I, no red-light district in the world could boast the gilded wantonness of Tokyo’s Yoshiwara. There, along a garden lane redolent with flower blossoms, the powdered ...
It's late morning and steam is rising from water tanks atop the colourful but opaque-windowed "soapland" sex parlours in a historic Tokyo red-light district. Walking through the narrow streets, camera ...