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 ...

When Geisha Soap was approached to be the title sponsor for the 5 th National Women’s Summit & Expo last year, it was a no-brainer to participate. As a brand, Geisha has been a champion for women and ...

Real Geisha Real Women is a documentary by Peter MacIntosh about the lives of several women in Kyoto Japan of various generations who are or have been maiko and geiko the Kyoto terms for geisha Their ...

A geiko (Kyoto geisha) named Mamechika dances in Gion, Kyoto, on on August 30, 2007. (Joi Ito photo/Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/1284204434/in/photostream ...

Westerners think they know all about geishas, those delicate Japanese women with their virgin milky white faces accented by a jarring pop of red lipstick, their feet sitting in clacking wooden sandals ...

Unilever’s ever-popular family bar soap brand, Geisha, has been awarded the “Most Outstanding Brand Supporting Women Empowerment” at the recent Women’s Choice Awards Africa. This award is in ...

The posters of geishas -- everywhere -- were driving Scott Tadashi Tsuchitani bonkers. "When I first saw those images throughout the city, it annoyed me," says the Bay Area native of the omnipresent ...

It’s not just nature, good food and hot springs that attract visitors to the town of Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture. The popular resort area is also known for a culture and traditions that have been ...

Radio reaches over 95 per cent of people worldwide and several radio stations in Africa have more than a million listeners each this is according to UNICEF report of 2014. Children accounts for about ...

Few countries today are so bound in tradition as Japan. Occupied since at least the Stone Age, Japan's long isolation as an island nation spawned a unique and fascinating culture. The tea ceremony, ...