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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Hollywood blockbuster Memoirs of a Geisha has been heavily criticised in China and Japan even before it opens. The criticism in Japan centres on director Rob Marshall's casting of Chinese actors ...

"Memoirs of a Geisha," the film adaptation of Arthur Golden's novel of the "hidden world" of Japanese society circa World War II, opened on the silver screen last weekend. Its three geisha ...