Best Place to Speak Your Mind

Japanese discourse isn't particularly known for its raw honesty. After all, this is a society where lying through your teeth for propriety's sake is not merely an obligation but a virtue. For these reasons, the existence of Loft Plus One?described as "the world's only talk performance pub"?is a thing to be marveled at. This is the only place in Japan, if not the world, where mafia bosses will take to the stage and give frank answers to questions from the audience about lives of crime and violence. Porn actresses will share a podium with (as well as perform taunting stripteases for)...

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