Japan's Reproductive Resources Management Agency

Japan's capital.

Tokyo.

The heart of an island nation with a population of over 100 million—a vast city where politics, economics, culture, and desire were all tangled together.

Among them, Shinjuku was where Tokyo's bustling nature was displayed most blatantly.

Electronic billboards lit day and night.

A forest of skyscrapers rising as though ready to swallow people whole.

A downtown where entertainment districts, office blocks, hotels, and department stores crowded together, shoulder to shoulder.

Yet in the very heart of Shinjuku, there was one district that, strangely, seemed to have been cut away from all those modern surroundings and left standing alone.

Black tiled roofs.

Red lanterns...