A Chinese anime fan says she was detained and interrogated by police after she wore traditional Japanese dress to pose for photos in the eastern city of Suzhou, sparking heated debate on China’s ...

A Chinese woman claimed she was detained by police in Suzhou for wearing a Japanese kimono and taking pictures on the street.

In August 2022 a young woman wearing a yukata – a simple, summer-weight kimono – was having her photo taken on a street in picturesque Suzhou, China, when she was accosted by a police officer.

This was not the first time wearing a kimono in China had caused a furor, and it would not be the last. Another broke out in March this year , after a visitor to Nanjing, site of an infammassacre ...

The Suzhou Kimono Incident, as it came to be known, sparked an internet debate over the propriety of wearing kimonos and the legality of the policeman’s actions. This was not the first time wearing a ...

Ryo Yoshitake/UnsplashIn August 2022 a young woman wearing a yukata – a simple, summer-weight kimono – was having her photo taken on a street in picturesque Suzhou, China, when she was ...