Japanese fashion designer Kobayashi Kaori was enchanted by the beauty of the hijab while visiting Malaysia. The experience ...

I enter the changeroom with trepidation, crossing my fingers that there will be no one around. My heart rate has doubled and ...

Kimono literally means “thing to wear” – it is made up of the Japanese words ki, meaning “to wear”, and mono, meaning “thing”. Today, kimonos are mostly worn by women on special ...

As part of the ceremony, women dress up in beautiful and colourful kimonos and men wear traditional Japanese dress or a suit and tie. The age of adulthood in Japan was set in 1876, but in 2018 the ...

At around 3 p.m. one day in early July, a 35-year-old woman from Italy visited ... "Many people equate kimonos and yukata with Japanese culture," Nose says. "We want to put our effort into the ...

"We wear kimonos to celebrate health ... 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 ...

New Year's is the most important traditional holiday celebrated in Japan. In the pre-World War II Osaka of my ... approach of New Year's came when our mother pulled out our festival kimonos to make ...

Japan may be a small island nation, but this Asian country has made some big contributions to the world. From technology to ...

Jon Woodhouse, who writes regular arts and entertainment articles for The Maui News, is currently traveling in Japan and ...

On cruises out of Japanese ports, you'll also be treated to a few Japanese women in beautiful silk kimonos. For the guys, dark suits or slacks with nice shirts and sports jackets are common.

In this historic image, a woman admires the intricate ... While no longer an everyday garment, kimonos are still an iconic part of modern Japanese culture. Photograph by Molly Ferrill Visitors ...

“Streets are clean in Japan, where there are also a lot of good things to eat,” said a 31-year-old woman who was strolling in rented yukata in the theme park on a recent national holiday in ...