This year, Dr Tets Kimura joined us at the Library as one of our National Library of Australia Fellows. His research focused on exploring how Japanese fashion was influenced by social, cultural and ...
Forty years after its founding, Japanese clothing retailer Uniqlo has more than 2,500 stores worldwide. Sales at its parent company, Fast Retailing Co, recently topped 3 trillion yen annually for the ...
In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I look at why fast fashion must end. Specifically, I look at the horrors of both worker and planetary exploitation of the fashion industry. The ...
(Mainichi/Kenji Yoneda) TOKYO -- At least 100,000 customers' personal information, including from credit cards, is believed to have been stolen from 11 e-commerce websites, the Mainichi Shimbun ...
Tokyo’s Adachi Ward is blaring the warning squawking of crows to protect garbage collection sites from the avian ... Although the crow population in the Japanese capital has shrunk considerably ...
Taking these words to heart, Kobayashi in her kimono hijabs has found her calling in serving as a bridge to link Japan and Muslims through fashion and culture.
So why not carry on borrowing from someone else’s wardrobe today? Luckily, a whole host of fashion rental sites have made it easier than ever to borrow a party dress for the night. Indeed, the ...