When it was first dug, the Chidorigafuchi moat was meant to keep people away from the shogun’s stronghold of Edo Castle, ...

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 ... active red-light districts in Japan.

Lights designed to prevent runway incursions were out of service when a Japan Coast Guard plane collided with an arriving Japan Airlines Co. passenger jet at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Jan. 2.

The Sumida River Fireworks Festival, a summer tradition in Tokyo since the feudal era ... Responding to an influx of foreign visitors to Japan, Sumida Ward for the first time this year created ...

Yoshiwara prospered in this location until the end of Japan's Edo period in 1868, but it went into decline as the country modernized and when sex work was outlawed in 1958. Beniko's photos, taken in ...

In contrast, today the same point is marked by two plain pillars, and the brothels of the area in eastern Tokyo are often ... former and active red-light districts in Japan.