Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Katsuo-ji Temple is known as the "Daruma temple" due to its large collection of the dolls. - Rebecca Cairns/CNN At Katsuo-ji ...

LoDo’s Sakura Square is known as the home of Japanese grocery store Pacific Mercantile, and for being the host of the annual vendors and festivities celebrated during Denver’s Cherry Blossom Festival, ...

The Yokohama Doll Museum in Kanagawa Prefecture is one of the largest doll museums in Japan. The museum’s collection showcases 1,300 dolls from 140 countries around the world, including traditional ...

As many as 108 traditional Japanese dolls of various sizes and types such as girl dolls, male dolls, zodiac animal dolls, and fairy dolls are on display at the Vietnam Women's Museum in Hanoi. The ...

SPENCER — Noriko Gordon’s curiosity became more than she could bear after reading a 1997 article in a Japanese newspaper about the return of a doll from the United States to Japan. The doll was a part ...

KUALA LUMPUR, May 28 (Bernama) -- Dolls are usually treated as children’s playthings but in Japan, they are an integral part of daily life, having held deep cultural significance since ancient times.

Behind a door at the top of a narrow staircase in a downtown warehouse, you’ll find what Peter Lai calls “the Japanese Cultural Village,” a 5,000-square-foot collection of kimonos and trinkets, dolls ...

Meet the man with a 200-strong collection of DOLLS in his spare room - which range from shop-bought Barbies to £600 Japanese imports. Former X Factor contestant Duane AJ, 34, spends lots of his spare ...