While “sento” public bathhouses continue to shutter nationwide, a long-established operator is planning to open its second location in the heart of Tokyo’s hip Harajuku district. The second bathhouse ...

Tourists wanting to join tea parties and try the combination of matcha powered green tea and yoga are flocking to the Matcha ...

I went to the Chiikawa shop in Harajuku with my 4-year-old daughter and 14-year-old son.The store was, of course, crowded.My ...

While Stefani’s Harajuku era launched nearly 20 years ago, it’s back in the news due to an interview the singer gave to Allure magazine to mark the launch of her new vegan beauty brand, GXVE Beauty.

Earlier this month, Gwen Stefani’s new TV show Kuu Kuu Harajuku premiered on Nickelodeon. The children’s animated program focuses on four music making, crime-fighting characters, the Harajuku Girls, ...

In 2004, if there had been an unofficial Queen of Cultural Appropriation, there is no doubt (pun intended) that Gwen Stefani would have worn the crown. The singer had previously committed a multitude ...

Once your travel plans are set, the time spent thinking about what to wear is part of the fun.Choosing a slightly bolder ...

No, Gwen Stefani, your father frequently traveling between California and Japan for work does not make you Japanese. This is an almost laughably absurd clarification to have to make, but during a ...

Gwen Stefani‘s animated series inspired by the Harajuku girls that became a part of her solo act in 2004 will make its American debut on Nickelodeon October 3rd. Kuu Kuu Harajuku premiered in ...

Here, one weary longtime fan — and fellow lover of Japan and its pop culture — reflects on her own shifting Gwen fandom, and Stefani's continued career of cultural appropriation. The track had already ...

TOKYO — Young Japanese women are an eclectic bunch, mining fashion influences as disparate as Nicole Richie, Comme des Garçons and Novala Takemoto, an author and seminal figure of the Lolita ...

Harajuku Tokyo Café has successfully raised $3 million in a Pre-Series A funding round led by Zero W. The funds will aid in ...