By Rosanna Rios Perez An elegant national costume that defines Japanese culture, the kimono epitomises craftsmanship and ...

New York based fashion brand, HIROMI ASAI, ( has been trying to revive the essence of Japanese Kimono for modern luxury fashion. The designer, Hiromi Asai, first presented authentic Kimonos on the run ...

Even at stores selling the traditional garments, sales have surpassed those to Japanese people, making customers from overseas an essential clientele. The number of male patrons is also rising.

Sanrio's Hello Kitty has received a new "haute couture-like" kimono and yukata collection from Yamato Lab, with the clothing seamlessly blending a traditional Japanese ... in both male and female ...

A staffer at kimono ... selling the traditional garments, sales have surpassed those to Japanese people, making customers from overseas an essential clientele. The number of male patrons is ...

An elegant national costume that defines Japanese culture ... intertwining warfare imagery into kimono patterns for infant boys and young men. It is quite a revelation to find that the kimono ...

The Japanese town of Kojima is all about denim. The main road is named Jeans Street, pairs of jeans flap like flags overhead, the drinks vending machines at the railway station are plastered with ...

"I didn't know those dresses were kimono," says Harris, an elementary school teacher in her 40s now living in Chiba Prefecture. "I just thought the characters were princesses. And, like little ...

KYOTO--A star geisha from Gion-Kobu, one of the five major “kagai” traditional entertainment ... For example, she had a kimono made on the motif of ume (Japanese plum) and snow, which is ...

For girl dogs, other popular names included "Hana" (flower) and "Momo" (peach). And if we're talking traditional Japanese dog names, it's pretty hard to go wrong with "Pochi," a classic go-to pup name ...

A deciduous, twining climber with leaves divided into narrow, lance-shaped leaflets. This free-flowering cultivar produces long racemes of fragrant white flowers tinged violet-blue from late spring ...