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Kabukichō, the Glossary

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  1. 76 relations: A Place Further than the Universe, Ōme Kaidō, Bait-and-switch, Black Lagoon, Bombing of Tokyo, Brothel, Businesses Affecting Public Morals Regulation Act, Cabaret, Case File nº221: Kabukicho, Cells at Work!, Chinese people in Japan, City Hunter, Closed-circuit television, De Wallen, Don Quijote (store), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Enka, Entertainment district, False advertising, Gintama, Godzilla, Godzilla head, Hanazono Shrine, Host and hostess clubs, Humax, Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle, Ichi the Killer, Jake Adelstein, Japan, Japan Standard Time, Jūsō, Judgment (video game), Kabuki, Kabuki-za, Kabukichō, Kamurochō, Kantō region, Ken Matsudaira, Kiyoshi Hikawa, List of regions of Japan, Lost in Translation (film), Love hotel, Meiji era, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Midnight Diner (Japanese TV series), Myojo 56 building fire, No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular!, Odd Taxi, Osaka, Persona 5, ... Expand index (26 more) »

  2. Districts of Shinjuku
  3. Red-light districts in Japan
  4. Yakuza

A Place Further than the Universe

is an original Japanese anime television series produced by Madhouse.

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Ōme Kaidō

is one of the main roads leading westwards out of Tokyo.

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Bait-and-switch

Bait-and-switch is a form of fraud used in retail sales but also employed in other contexts.

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Black Lagoon

Black Lagoon (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rei Hiroe.

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Bombing of Tokyo

The was a series of air raids on Japan launched by the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific War in 1944–1945.

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Brothel

A brothel, bordello, bawdy house, ranch, house of ill repute, house of ill fame, or whorehouse is a place where people engage in sexual activity with prostitutes.

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Businesses Affecting Public Morals Regulation Act

The, also known as or, is a law that regulates entertainment places in Japan.

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Cabaret

Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama.

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Case File nº221: Kabukicho

is an original anime television series produced by Production I.G. Most of the characters are based on Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series.

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Cells at Work!

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akane Shimizu.

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Chinese people in Japan

include any people self-identifying as ethnic Chinese or people possessing Chinese citizenship living in Japan.

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City Hunter

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tsukasa Hojo.

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Closed-circuit television

Closed-circuit television (CCTV), also known as video surveillance, is the use of closed-circuit television cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors.

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De Wallen

De Wallen is the largest and best known red-light district in Amsterdam.

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Don Quijote (store)

is a Japanese discount store chain.

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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (or simply E.T.) is a 1982 American science fiction film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Melissa Mathison.

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Enka

is a Japanese music genre considered to resemble traditional Japanese music stylistically.

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Entertainment district

An entertainment district is a type of arts district with a high concentration of movie theaters, theatres or other entertainment venues.

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False advertising

False advertising is the act of publishing, transmitting, or otherwise publicly circulating an advertisement containing a false claim, or statement, made intentionally (or recklessly) to promote the sale of property, goods, or services.

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Gintama

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hideaki Sorachi.

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Godzilla

is a fictional monster, or kaiju, that debuted in the eponymous 1954 film, directed and co-written by Ishirō Honda.

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Godzilla head

The Godzilla head is a landmark and tourist attraction in Kabukichō, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.

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Hanazono Shrine

The is a Shinto shrine located in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.

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Host and hostess clubs

A hostess club is a type of night club found primarily in Japan which employs mostly female staff and caters to men seeking drinks and attentive conversation.

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Humax

Humax is a consumer electronics company.

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Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle

is a Japanese multimedia project by King Records under their Evil Line Records label.

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Ichi the Killer

Ichi the Killer may refer to.

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Jake Adelstein

Joshua Lawrence "Jake" Adelstein (born March 28, 1969) is an American journalist, crime writer, and blogger who has spent most of his career in Japan.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Japan Standard Time

, or, is the standard time zone in Japan, 9 hours ahead of UTC (UTC+09:00).

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Jūsō

is a residential district surrounding Jūsō Station, in Yodogawa-ku, Osaka, Japan. Kabukichō and Jūsō are red-light districts in Japan.

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Judgment (video game)

Judgment is an action-adventure video game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and published by Sega.

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Kabuki

is a classical form of Japanese theatre, mixing dramatic performance with traditional dance.

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Kabuki-za

in Ginza is the principal theater in Tokyo for the traditional kabuki drama form.

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Kabukichō

Kabukichō (歌舞伎町) is an entertainment district in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. Kabukichō and Kabukichō are districts of Shinjuku, Neighborhoods of Tokyo, red-light districts in Japan and Yakuza.

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Kamurochō

is a fictional district of Tokyo from Sega's Yakuza media franchise.

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Kantō region

The is a geographical region of Honshu, the largest island of Japan.

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Ken Matsudaira

is a Japanese actor and musician from Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan.

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Kiyoshi Hikawa

is a Japanese enka singer who was born on September 6, 1977, in Minami-ku, Fukuoka, Japan.

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List of regions of Japan

Japan is divided into eight regions.

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Lost in Translation (film)

Lost in Translation is a 2003 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Sofia Coppola.

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Love hotel

A love hotel is a type of short-stay hotel found around the world operated primarily for the purpose of allowing guests privacy for sex.

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Meiji era

The was an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City.

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Midnight Diner (Japanese TV series)

is a Japanese TV anthology series based on the manga by Yarō Abe, Shin'ya Shokudō.

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Myojo 56 building fire

The was a structural fire that began at about 01:00 local time on September 1, 2001 in the Myojo 56 building, located in the Kabukichō section of Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.

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No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular!

, commonly referred to as, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by two people under the pseudonym Nico Tanigawa.

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Odd Taxi

(stylized as ODDTAXI) is a Japanese anime television series.

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Osaka

is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan, and one of the three major cities of Japan (Tokyo-Osaka-Nagoya).

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Persona 5

is a 2016 role-playing video game developed by P-Studio and published by Atlus.

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Pet Shop of Horrors

Pet Shop of Horrors is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Matsuri Akino.

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Prefectures of Japan

Japan is divided into 47 prefectures (todōfuken), which rank immediately below the national government and form the country's first level of jurisdiction and administrative division.

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Protection racket

A protection racket is a type of racket and a scheme of organized crime perpetrated by a potentially hazardous organized crime group that generally guarantees protection outside the sanction of the law to another entity or individual from violence, robbery, ransacking, arson, vandalism, and other such threats, in exchange for payments at regular intervals.

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Red-light district

A red-light district or pleasure district is a part of an urban area where a concentration of prostitution and sex-oriented businesses, such as sex shops, strip clubs, and adult theaters, are found.

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Robot Restaurant

Robot Restaurant was an entertainment venue operated by Robot Restaurant Co., Ltd.

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Saburō Kitajima

is a Japanese enka singer, lyricist, actor and composer.

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Seibu-Shinjuku Station

is a railway station in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Seibu Railway.

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Shinjuku

, officially called Shinjuku City, is a special ward of Tokyo, Japan.

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Shinjuku Golden Gai

is a district of Kabukicho within Shinjuku, a special ward of Tokyo, Japan. Kabukichō and Shinjuku Golden Gai are districts of Shinjuku and Neighborhoods of Tokyo.

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Shinjuku Koma Theater

The was a major theatre in the Kabukichō, Shinjuku, Tokyo.

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Shinjuku Station

is a major railway station in Tokyo, Japan, that serves as the main connecting hub for rail traffic between central/eastern Tokyo (the special wards) and Western Tokyo on the inter-city rail, commuter rail, and subway lines.

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Shintaro Ishihara

was a Japanese politician and writer, who served as the Governor of Tokyo from 1999 to 2012.

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Special wards of Tokyo

are a special form of municipalities in Japan under the 1947 Local Autonomy Law.

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The Japan Times

The Japan Times is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper.

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Tobita Shinchi

, also known as, is the largest of the brothel districts in Osaka, and also the largest in western Japan. Kabukichō and Tobita Shinchi are red-light districts in Japan.

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Toho Cinemas

is a Japanese movie theater company.

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Tokyo

Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.

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Tokyo Afterschool Summoners

, known also by the blend word Housamo (放サモ, derived from Tōkyō Hōkago Samonāzu), is an F2P role-playing video game for Android and iOS. It is developed by, a mobile gaming company operated by the dōjin circle. It is noted as one of the first commercially produced LGBT video games created in Japan, and one of the first commercially produced LGBT games to extensively utilize gay manga ("bara") artwork.

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Tokyo bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics

The Tokyo bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics was an unsuccessful bid, first recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on September 14, 2007.

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Tokyo Vice

Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan is a 2009 memoir by Jake Adelstein of his years living in Tokyo as the first non-Japanese reporter working for one of Japan's largest newspapers, Yomiuri Shimbun.

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Tokyu Kabukicho Tower

is a 48-storey skyscraper located in the Kabukichō district of Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.

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Tourism in Japan

Tourism in Japan is a major industry and contributor to the Japanese economy.

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Weathering with You

is a 2019 Japanese animated romantic fantasy film written and directed by Makoto Shinkai, produced by CoMix Wave Films and distributed by Toho.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Yakuza

, also known as, are members of transnational organized crime syndicates originating in Japan.

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Yakuza (franchise)

, also known as Like A Dragon, is a video game franchise created, owned and published by Sega.

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See also

Districts of Shinjuku

Red-light districts in Japan

Yakuza

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabukichō

Also known as Kabuki-cho, Kabuki-chō, Kabukicho, Kabukicho, Tokyo, Kabukichou, Kabukichō Ichiban-gai, Kabukichō, Tokyo, Kabukityo, .

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