Chinese geisha trainee Rinka, born as Zhang Xue in Shenyang, China, lights candles before a summer festival near her geisha school building in the port town of Shimoda.Reuters It takes Rinka at least ...

SHIMODA, Japan (Reuters) - It takes Rinka at least two hours to apply her thick white makeup and get dressed in an elaborate kimono on formal occasions, as is typical of most trainee geisha. But ...

Chinese retailer and variety store chain MINISO Group apologized on Tuesday after its Spainish Instagram account mistranslated Chinese Qipao into “Japanese Geisha” in a post promoting its mystery toy ...

BEIJING - China and Japan, which are at each other's throats over any number of issues, finally seem to agree on one thing: Hollywood's latest release is a cultural dud. The Hollywood movie Memoirs of ...

The global beauty and personal care market is booming these days, with worldwide revenues topping $700 billion. And nowhere is that market booming bigger than in Asia, especially in China, which ...

WHEN Chinese actress Gong Li makes her American film debut in “Memoirs of a Geisha” this Friday, it’ll be in a role some see as deliciously close to real life. Not that she’s a treacherous schemer ...

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