How American occupation led to Japan’s ‘war on dance’

After a year of legal wrangling, Japan's parliament voted last week to relax laws that had officially banned dancing after midnight in clubs and bars. It's an important shift for cities such as Tokyo and Osaka, known for their burgeoning nightlife scenes: Although the ban had been barely implemented for decades, in the past few […]









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