Women were largely excluded from sake production until after World War II. Sake making has a history of more than a thousand years, with strong roots in Japan’s traditional Shinto religion.

The kimono is one of the most recognizable forms of national dress, wielding its influence in fashion, art and media. At the ...

The bandika, she says, is not a dress of choice for the traditional Mijikenda women. It is worn by girls or students performing folk songs. “One will need to pull threads along the grains of the ...

As well as sake, the traditional Japanese brewing processes recognized by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity can be used to make drinks like shōchū and awamori, and the seasoning ...

To ease wide gender disparities, a growing number of Japan's sciences-oriented national and public universities are scrambling to attract female students by enacting admission quotas. Only five ...

A Shinto shrine in Tokushima Prefecture, western Japan, is training young women as "miko" attendants to welcome worshippers during the New Year holidays.

Kim Kardashian stunned in a slinky snakeskin dress for this year’s Christmas Eve videos with North West. The mother-daughter ...

But “traditional knowledge and skills of sake-making with ‘koji’ mold in Japan” is now registered as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. And the age-old technique has produced ...

Some of these immortal creatures are truly remorseless and powerful anime villains, but not all of them serve villainous ...

When you think about a good Christmas dinner, what do you think of? For most people, it's probably a nice ham and some ...

After years of funding shortages, ballooning costs and bureaucratic foot-dragging, Ho Chi Minh City is opening the first ...

‘Thalaclaus’) One such video shows a group of Iskcon followers dressed as Santa's elves singing and chanting on the streets on Japan on the occasion of Christmas. The group seamlessly blends ...