Prasso, a former Business Week Asia editor, asks if Westerners can look objectively at the Eastern region, blinded as they are by ""issues of race and sex, fantasy and power."" It's this worldview-one ...

Asian Art Museum Night of the Geisha gala dinner-dance celebrates the opening of "Geisha: Beyond the Painted Smile," the Asian's exhibition about the cultural perceptions of this uniquely Japanese ...

It started as a joke over too much sake. It was 1975, in Kyoto, Japan. The American Fulbright student was dining with a motherly ex-geisha who had befriended her and with some of the other geisha, and ...

Tokyo (AFP) – The geishas glide with measured steps across a wooden stage, offering a glimpse of a long-misunderstood tradition that is becoming a rare sight in Japan. Dancing with paper fans and ...

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 ...

David Gritten reports from the Tokyo world première of a film that is making waves in Japan and China Japanese cinema audiences tend not to whoop and holler to show their approval for films, which can ...

TOKYO — Japan’s ancient capital of Kyoto, long a popular destination for tourists, is closing off some private-property alleys in its famous geisha district because of complaints about misbehaving ...

Liza Dalby is the only Western woman ever to have trained as a geisha. Much misunderstood by the outside world, the geisha is above all an artist, she tells Victoria Lane THREE years ago, when Liza ...

“Memoirs of a Geisha” is an enchanting, yet somewhat disturbing, story of a 9-year-old girl, Chiyo (Suzuka Ohgo), who develops into a highly desirable geisha.The story begins with stormy emotion, as ...

She may have been in Belgium, but that wasn't going to stop Lady Gaga channelling whichever cultural influences suited her mood at that moment. Pulling together an impressive oriental ensemble, the ...