Whiff of luxury amid Tokyo sleaze Financial Review / AP / 03/01/2003
Hustling beneath garish neon lights, sidewalk touts coax pedestrians to sleazy hostess bars squeezed between massage parlours and striptease joints. Homeless bums slump in the subway station.
Tokyo's Roppongi district, infamous for prostitution and shady foreigners, is about to get a much-needed facelift with Roppongi Hills - a sprawling complex of office buildings, shops and restaurants ...
