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Japan’s famed “maid cafés” featuring coy young girls serving tea in frilly aprons and bonnets have been given a new twist – a café of unsmiling, grim-faced grannies reflecting a fast-greying nation.
A cafe of unsmiling, grim-faced grannies reflecting a fast-greying nation has replaced Japan's famed "maid cafes" featuring coy young girls serving tea in frilly aprons and bonnets. Tokyo's Ikebukuro ...