TO GO WITH Japan-culture-lifestyle-hosts,FEATURE by Alastair HIMMER
In this picture taken on January 27, 2017, 43-year-old former host Sho Takami, who owns a chain of host clubs, gets out of his Rolls Royce at the entrance of his club with displayed portraits of his hosts 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