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>Nagata takes me around the corner to Okubo Park and we see a line of roughly 50 young women. A group of men loiter opposite them on the side of the park – many of them middle-aged and wearing suits, indicating the end of a long day at the office. Some are on their phones. Occasionally, others would go over to the women and whisper into their ears as they stand, stony-faced, pretending not to hear. “That guy is probably offering something too low,” Nagata explains. “If they get a customer tonight then they have a bed sorted.” We stand there for a few minutes, before the atmosphere gets too intense, heading back to Toyoko, which is empty in comparison. “I think the guys probably got involved in crime," he explains of the largely absent teens. "And the girls? That’s where they went.”
