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 ...
The region that is now home to Osaka was originally settled in 7,000 BCE. Now, metro Osaka is home to more than 19 million ...
"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.