Police use outdated dancing law to stub out nightlife It’s a lively Saturday night in the heart of Hiroshima’s Nagarekawa

Back in September, following the joint raids on the the clubs Cover and Twisters, I was asked by the Japan

Seems like the recent raid on Cover (and here) has had the kind of effect that police hoped the Barco

Organizer of the Dirty club event, Mike Waugh, fills in some of the details and comments on his feelings after

Yesterday we posted a first hand report on Saturday’s police raid on the Dirty club event, and there have been

After a quiet summer, and 4 months on from the raid on El Barco, the police are out enforcing ‘public

Lights up. Sound down. Gaijin cards out. At 2am this morning the happy, unsuspecting boogiers at club event ‘Dirty’ held

Two videos from the Barco security cameras recording May’s police raid. The first video is from the stairwell camera and

Richard Nishiyama, joint owner of the El Barco company, speaks to GetHiroshima about his time in custody and considers how

I mentioned a police raid on El Barco last weekend in an earlier post, but I didn’t realise how serious

El Barco Ltd directors Richard And Hideko Nishiyama were arrested in a raid on the El Barco nightclub in the