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...Shibuya district of Tokyo is a teen mecca by day, by night a neon-signed playground of drinking holes and sex clubs for adult men looking for a good time. Mai and Rika hang here round the clock, part of a new fad sweeping up very young Japanese girls. It's called puchi iede, or "petite runaway." Home is what they're running from. Shibuya, with its 24-7 excitements and black-lit havens, is freedom central. "Petite" refers not to the size of the runaway, though many are mere wisps on the cusp of puberty, but to the short...
...more innocent end of the scale are venues called omiai clubs. Omiai refers to marriage matchmaking, but in Kabuki-cho, Tokyo's famed red-light district, it takes on a raunchier meaning. At one such place popular with runaways, girls pay $2 for unlimited access to free sandwiches, juice and karaoke. Male customers pay $30 to make a "match"?a no-strings date?which the girls are free to refuse. At the more lurid end are a dizzying range of brothels called health, cabaret or image clubs. Many market their staff as minors. A Kabuki-cho club made famous...
...formed this clique, group, O.K., call it a gang, that goes out on enjo kosai dates?pay dates?and pools the money. They share their secrets and fears because that makes them feel safer, somehow, like they're not alone. Kayoko, Ah and her gang live in the Western district of Osaka, a 40-minute train ride from the city center. An outsider just passing through might think their neighborhood looks quaint. There's a brook crisscrossed by cute footpaths running the length of the street next to this park. Newly remodeled houses with perfectly manicured shrubs shaped like bonsai...
...It’s clear [they] paid close attention to the evidence and they disregarded what the government felt was a fabrication of an insanity defense,” said Assistant District Attorney Robert Weiner in a post-trial press conference reported in The Boston Globe...
Jeffrey G. Collins, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, sent out invitation letters on Tuesday to 566 recent immigrants from Middle Eastern nations, asking them to participate in interviews about terrorism...