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Kabukicho’s Female Prostitutes Seeing More Competition From Male ‘Tachinbo’

Kabukicho's Female Prostitutes Seeing More Competition From Male 'Tachinbo'

Kabukicho, the entertainment district of Shinjuku in Tokyo, has been chaotic in recent years with the growing number of ‘tachinbo’ (streetwalkers), especially male prostitutes from Southeast Asia.

The tachinbo standing around in Kabukicho‘s Okubo Park has become part of ‘daily life,’ with more variety than ever with plenty of gaijin prostitutes who’ve arrived during the pandemic.

Many foreign-looking ‘women’ have been parked in front of hotels, dressed in revealing clothing, and are more aggressive when it comes to calling out customers rather than waiting for the customers to come to them.

“There’s been many cases of ‘That was actually a man,’ since the end of the pandemic,” said a local man who explained that before, there were many women from Central and South America and East Asia, but since the pandemic, the number of foreign visitors has shifted to men from Southeast Asia.

“Here, even as times change, a new darkness is born one after another,” said a person who has been involved in the area of Kabukicho for many years.

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