TO GO WITH Japan-culture-lifestyle-hosts,FEATURE by Alastair HIMMER
In this picture taken late on January 23, 2017, a woman checks her phone as she waits for her host at a host club in the Kabukicho red-light district in Tokyo. Host clubs are a 10 billion USD industry in Japan with some 800 venues nationwide. Around 260 of those are located in Tokyo, most squeezed into Kabukicho's narrow streets where flickering neon signs display the air-brushed faces of hosts outside clubs with names such as Romeo, Gatsby and Avalon. / AFP PHOTO / BEHROUZ MEHRI / TO GO WITH Japan-culture-lifestyle-hosts,FEATURE by Alastair HIMMER