Host club ads in Tokyo's Kabukicho

Host club ads in Tokyo's Kabukicho

Photo taken April 30, 2019, in Tokyo's Kabukicho entertainment district shows advertising signs for "host clubs," where the staff are male and the clientele largely female. The parents of a host club man who died in Osaka at age 21 after chugging alcoholic drinks at work in 2012 were granted worker's benefits on May 29, 2019, in the first such court ruling in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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