Forty-four young women in wide hakama pants stand on stage at the Takarazuka Grand Theater, a 30-minute train ride west of Osaka. With faces framed by boyish bobs or slicked-back hair, they announce ...

I wear wide leg trousers pretty much everyday and I only have a certain few that I regularly wear on rotation, so when I saw that Muji's double layered Hakama trousers had been restocked online, I ran ...

The weather in Japan is in that weird changing-of-the-seasons period right now. If the sun is out, it’s going to be way too hot for a full-on winter coat, but if night has fallen and the wind is ...

After Japan’s centuries of shogunate-enforced isolation ended in the late 1800s, Western-style fashions swept the nation. However, the country’s traditional garments are recently getting special ...

Producer and "Shogun" star Hiroyuki Sanada staffed a "dream team" of Japanese artisans to work on the FX miniseries.

KITAKYUSHU -- Young men and women dressed in flamboyant attire added bright colors to a Jan. 7 coming-of-age ceremony here, known as a place for new 20-year-olds showing up in unique fashion every ...