KYOTO--A special exhibition commemorating the 60th anniversary of Gucci’s arrival in Japan is now under way at the Kyoto City ...

Cliffe was 24 when she first visited Japan on a trip during a summer vacation ... “What did women (of this country) wish to express with their kimono?” she came to ask herself.

Among the many new collaboration releases in honor of this milestone, the character recently received a stunning summer kimono, along with a collection of other traditional Japanese clothing ...

It's celebratory wear and passed on in families through the generations," one Japanese woman, Yuka Ohishi, told the BBC. "[This] shapewear doesn't even resemble a kimono - she just chose a word ...

From everyday wear to high fashion staple, and back again, the kimono has always adapted with the times. Here’s how this most iconic of Japanese ... for married women, it is usually only ...

A phenomenon has emerged in Japan which involves males labelled as “tight men” who wear silicone bodysuits and lifelike masks to look like women in public spaces. The trend has sparked ...

The Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Nihon Hidankyo for its work to denuclearise the world also cited memories of atomic bombs of ...

Japan ranked 104th out of 142 countries in the Global Gender Gap Report 2014, finishing behind the majority of developed nations.While political and economic advancement for women remain at a ...

Author Leanne Lieberman discusses how her writing career started off with so much potential and hope before disappointment after disappointment threatened to silence it all. Then, she found hope in an ...

MOVING WALL The "moving wall" represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal. Moving walls are generally represented in years.

Futuristic megacities with neon-lit streets, impossibly fast bullet trains, towering skyscrapers, cosplay costumes fused with ancient Buddhist temples, jaw-dropping natural landscapes (hello, Mt Fuji) ...