But for seven days from Wednesday (May 21) the women will perform in full splendour at the 100-year-old Azuma Odori festival at a theatre in the heart of the Japanese capital. In the popular ...

But for seven days from Wednesday the women will perform in full splendour at the 100-year-old Azuma Odori festival at a theatre in the heart of the Japanese capital. In the popular imagination ...

The couple used it as a country retreat. Coe Hall was something of a 20th-century fantasy, deliberately built to look centuries old. “The Coes were new money, but they didn’t want it to look ...

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 dressed in kimonos ...