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.

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.

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 ...