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 ...

Eight geisha are performing the Hana-no-mai (Flower Dance) in your room at a traditional Japanese inn. They move slowly, like mythical cranes, resplendent in blue, green and orange kimono, as an old ...

Masakazu Yoshizawa, a musician best known for his mastery of traditional Japanese flutes who was featured on the “Memoirs of a Geisha” soundtrack, died Oct. 24 of stomach cancer at his San Gabriel ...

SHIMODA, Japan — With a few hesitant steps and the swoosh of kimono against a tatami-mat floor, it isn’t long before Awagiku finds her rhythm, moving with what comes close to perfection by the end of ...

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 ...

Ayaka (not her real name) is a thoroughly modern Japanese woman. On her days off from work, she zips around Tokyo in jeans and a sweater. Stepping out: Geisha apprentices take a stroll through Kyoto ...