Sporting a white dress and a red headscarf, Japan’s version of a Barbie doll has a new look to battle the stigma of alopecia areata, an intractable immune disease that causes patchy hair loss.

Hype in the United States over two blockbuster movie releases has taken a culturally insensitive turn in Japan. "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" opened in US theaters on the same day, July 21, prompting ...

She appreciates that the doll's release comes on the high heels of the blockbuster “Barbie” movie last year ... incarceration camps in response to Japan's 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.

Taiwanese actress Barbie Hsu has died of pneumonia at the age of 48 while on a trip to Japan, where she contracted influenza during the Lunar New Year holiday, her sister confirmed Monday through an ...