It’s late morning and steam is rising from water tanks atop the colourful but opaque-windowed “soapland” sex parlours in a ...

Beniko’s photos taken in Japanese red-light districts focus on the buildings and rooms usually hidden from view. Read more at ...

Beniko, now 52, spent a decade working in one of these so-called soaplands after a difficult ... close to current-day tourist hotspot Asakusa. Yoshiwara prospered in this location until the ...