At an October press conference at which Yanai announced that Fast Retailing’s annual profits had climbed 24 percent to $1.2 billion, he remarked, “It is a real shame, but Japan’s leading ...

The trend has also spread to traditional hanten products. Hitomi Yoshigai, 60, is president of Miyata Orimono, which was founded in 1913 and is based in the southwest Japan city of Chikugo ...

Japan’s indigo tradition dates back 1,300 years, and with sixth-generation artisans in a southern city, Tokushima, still at work, and supported by artists and chefs, the legacy is is in safe hands.

In Japan, most schools have uniforms for their students. The distinctive, traditional outfits were originally inspired by military designs, but since the 1980s, new styles have emerged.

MAEBASHI -- A workshop to repair clothes using the traditional Japanese embroidery technique called "sashiko" was held recently at a Uniqlo store in this east Japan city to spread the word on how ...

The word “Ametora” means “American traditional” and started in the ’80s in Japan. But it generally means American East Coast, classic, elite clothing.

A woman in traditional Chinese attire was asked to leave a park in Wuhan, Central China’s Hubei Province after her clothes were reportedly mistaken for a Japanese kimono. The incident prompted ...

It is 400 years since the Yoshiwara pleasure quarters were established in Edo (now Tokyo). The area changed greatly through its history, but its importance to the development of Japan’s ...