"For us, it was a natural move to consider Seattle as the first candidate for the first U.S. hotel," the company's CEO says.

The celebration of the Japanese pop culture icon cuts across commerce, fashion and entertainment, guided by the elusive ...

As Hello Kitty's commercial success expanded beyond Asia, so did her personal profile. By the late 1970s, Sanrio revealed the ...

Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko have sparked a fashion movement with their “tradi-modern” style, blending traditional Senegalese attire with modern ...

Wakaba Higuchi won her first Grand Prix event after more than eight years of trying Saturday night, putting together an error-free program at Skate America to edge Japanese teammate Rinka Watanabe ...

Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara of Japan compete during the pairs free skate program at the Skate America figure ... (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez) Isabeau Levito of the United States competes during the ...

The collection used materials such as wool, Japanese twill, and sheepskin leather that brought texture and depth to the runway while maintaining a casual and curated look that blended street culture ...

Why Trust Us? A research team from the University of Tokyo analyzed DNA from a Yayoi-period skeleton to determine the ancestral makeup of the modern Japanese population. The unique DNA makeup ...

NEW YORK, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani brought ... blouses and trousers for women. Armani also used darker greys, blues and browns for his designs, which nodded ...

Want to learn Japanese by playing video games and watching anime? A band of YouTubers — with the help of modern tools — has made learning one of the world’s most challenging languages into a ...

OSAKA, Japan - Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand’s Erin Routliffe are out of the Japan Women’s Open tennis tournament. Spain’s Cristina Bucsa and Romania’s Monica Niculescu ...

Women accounted for 16.1 percent of executives at Japan's top-listed companies, a survey by its top business lobby showed Wednesday, up 2.8 percentage points from the previous year and moving steadily ...