Hand-dyed denim and vintage machines are used to make jeans that sell for up to US$1,400 a pair in town where even the roads ...

Japanese jeans tend to be high-end, dark and durable. Although a tiny part of the global jeans market, they have carved out a ...

The kimono, which means ‘thing to wear’ in Japanese, can be traced back to Japan's Heian period, over 1,000 years ago, and its status has changed a lot over time.

A native Briton spends nearly 365 days of the year wearing kimono, even though daily use of the traditional Japanese clothing is on the decline among modern Japanese fashionistas. Sheila Cliffe ...

OJI, Nara Prefecture--A parade of dogs added a twist to an annual procession of kimono-clad children during a traditional ceremony held at famed Darumaji temple in this western town. Darumaji is ...

Kim Kardashian West has angered people in Japan with the launch of her new shapewear brand, Kimono Intimates. The reality star said the label, launched on Tuesday, is inclusive and "celebrates and ...

It’s an ethic entrenched throughout Japan, from big carmakers to the local tofu store. “More like making a kimono” is the ... The clattering power looms are vintage Toyodas, from the weaving ...

The fries it came with were seasoned well and fried to perfection. This shop was so much fun. Imagine stepping into an old traditional Japanese home filled to the brim with vintage Kimonos. Some were ...

I picked up a t-shirt. It contains writing in the Arashiyama dialect. It says "Welcome." Kyoto is home to many vintage Kimono shops. Most people in Japan wear Western clothes. That means there are so ...

In the days of the late Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, the “banzais” of sword-shaking Japanese drowned out their more intelligent countrymen. The world of the ‘305 and the ‘405 ...

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 ...

elegant garments that reminded her not so much of Japan but of royalty. "I didn't know those dresses were kimono," says Harris, an elementary school teacher in her 40s now living in Chiba Prefecture.