Japanese eki stamps (station stamps) are a charming feature of Japanese railway culture. Beloved by visitors and oshi-tetsu ...

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In a small studio tucked within the Sony Pictures lot, Gary Hecker makes art with sound ... but if I'm doing a little geisha girl from 'Memoirs of a Geisha,' a 90-pound girl in those little wooden ...

Dean Packer, a member of Thornbury Camera Club, has a fascination with Japan. Despite it being on the far side of the world, Dean has visited many times. His latest trip was for 16 days during which ...

Maiko and others perform in the ...

Wicked, Mean Girls, Moana 2, and more popular 2024 films have met the ReFrame Stamp criteria for gender-balanced production, according to a new report. ReFrame is the initiative launched in 2017 to ...

JR Kyushu faces charges over alleged concealment of ferry water leak ...

Costume designers, stylists and models like Kendall Jenner, Cara Delevingne and Hailey Bieber mixed it up at the fashionable affair held at L.A.'s Chateau Marmont on Wednesday morning.

Before you bust out that selfie stick for the all-important social media shot, you might want to think twice. Not every ...

as was a geisha’s nape in Japan. “Eroticism is not something that any two people see quite the same way,” she notes. And she doesn’t consider images with breasts or genitals as erotic per se.

Sanrio's Hello Kitty oozes elegance and refinement in a new limited-edition doll release, inspired by Edo's long history of handcrafted woodmaking.

One leading botanist is scouring remote corners of the earth to find new species that could keep our mugs full ...