In the modern era, on most days Japanese women wear Western-style clothing. Sure, kimono look nice, but they’re less practical and more time-consuming to put on than a shirt and pants or skirt. An ...

Kimono are one of the most recognizable aspects of traditional Japanese culture. A standard form of dress since ancient times, kimono are often worn in the modern era to lend occasions a sense of ...

The Japanese kimono is one of the world’s most iconic traditional item of clothing. It is instantly recognisable, with its simple yet elegant cut, intricate patterns, diverse colours and luxurious ...

Originally, "kimono" was the Japanese word for clothing. But in more recent years, the word has been used to refer specifically to traditional Japanese clothing. Kimonos as we know them today came ...

The Sankei Living Shimbun Inc held a special yukata experience workshop on May 23 at the historic Taiko-en estate in Osaka. During the full-day event, 10 Japanese women and five foreign women were ...

At the end of 2021, a somewhat unusual kimono exhibition called “Kimono Visionaries” opened in New York. Over the four days of the project, 25 pieces were shown, all of them the work of Tia Oguri, a ...

Disha Patani looked elegant dressed in an ivory kimono with a rose coloured belt. The quintessentially Japanese wrap-around ensemble featured intricate floral embroidery on it which added more ...

Japanese women put on their finest winter kimonos in the annual Coming of Age ceremony in Tokyo Credit: Photo: REX Yasutaka Komiya, an 84-year-old craftsman, sat on a woven tatami mat floor flicking ...

The survivors stories of Hiroshima goes beyond just testimonies noted down in journals, they are the lasting imprints, preserved in skin and stone. Every story is a reminder of what violence can do to ...

A video of university security guards attacking a man wearing a “kimono” last Sunday has gone viral in China, stirring heated debate online over the country’s easily stoked anti-Japanese sentiment.