Ayaka Yoshida, a 27-year-old member of the Mie Prefectural Assembly ("gikai") representing the Japanese Communist Party, has ...

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KYOTO -- Audiences were treated to a final rehearsal for the annual month-long "Miyako Odori" dance performance by geisha and ...

Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani, top, celebrates in the dugout after hitting a solo home run during the seventh inning of ...

"The true art of Foley is to master the sound," Hecker said. "I'm a 200-pound guy, so if I'm doing Arnold Schwarzenegger, I've got to dig deep, but if I'm doing a little geisha girl from 'Memoirs of a ...

Also known as a "departure tax", this tax was introduced in 2019. It is automatically included in travel fares and applies to all individuals leaving Japan by air or sea, including both foreign ...

Four-time Oscar winner Colleen Atwood brought her torched statuette to the Vogue World: Hollywood announcement on Wednesday: ...

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You can find him on X @gamegriffin. Languages: English The Batman Part 2 is coming, but so far it's shrouded in mystery. What's the story, who's the villain, and when is it coming out? In this ...

The Ark 2 trailer that dropped at E3 2022 though is captured in Unreal Engine 5 and looks utterly stunning. Although it's not gameplay, it sets the tone for the game's storyline, which takes place ...

KYOTO--A geisha with her face covered by a plain surgical face mask hardly fits the traditional dainty image of the practitioners of the centuries-old art form that is largely hidden from the ...

Currently owned by Yasaka Nyokoba Gakuen, an educational corporation that operates a training school for geisha and "maiko" geisha apprentices, Yasaka Hall is mainly used as a forum to perform ...