Award-winning festival-favorite to expand release to additional major markets after initial launch in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco Hannover House, Inc. (OTCMKTS:HHSE) It's been twenty years ...

MITO--Yasuko Yasuhara, once a top party hostess in this Ibaraki prefectural capital, made an inevitable career shift as she grew older. In the process, she revived and protected not only her ...

Misconceptions about geisha that stem from highly sensationalized stories from Western perspectives flatten the complex cultural artistry of the profession. Detail of a Katsura, a geisha wig. Before ...

KYOTO (Reuters) - Just eight years ago, Komomo was a Japanese teenager living in Beijing, riding her bicycle around the city and playing pool with her friends on weekends. Sign up here. Now she is a ...

An oft-misunderstood Japanese tradition gets a sympathetic closeup in Miyuki Sohara's "Hannari Geisha Modern," providing rare access to contemporary Kyoto geisha performers, or geiko. An ...

The mysterious world of Japanese Geisha culture is exposed when a police detective begins investigating some mysterious deaths. Award-winning festival-favorite to expand release to additional major ...