And "no amount of waffle" about "things that make ignorant, sensation-greedy Westerners go weak at the knees" has been able to disguise the "ethical fungus at the heart of geisha culture".

As Japan’s capital for over a thousand years, Kyoto is the heart of traditional Japanese culture. Kyoto is home to an incredible number of temples, shrines, and historic sites, each offering a ...

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For Aiko, the city’s charm is in its melting pot of culture. “Kyoto is a city where creativity, culture, and heritage flow seamlessly,” she says. “There’s a deliberate intention behind ...

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Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson's play Kyoto – first seen at the RSC in Stratford – is set at the UN Climate Change Conference in 1997, when countries around the world agreed the first ...

KYOTO--A young community band leader from Borneo nervously accepted the baton from the music maestro at a high school here.

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Decades have passed since Christian Dior found himself transfixed by Japanese culture, traced back to his ... unveil her pre-fall 2025 collection in Kyoto — turning Dior’s inward devotion ...

The double-act of Angela Merkel and John Prescott at the Kyoto summit gets easy laughs. Pearlman’s corruption is underlined by the fact he’s an indifferent husband, a bad dad and a compulsive ...