TOKYO — Meet Lulu Hashimoto — a human being clad in a full-body doll costume consisting of a wig, a mask and stockings patterned with doll-like joints. According to her creator Hitomi Komaki, she is ...

For 18-year-old model Rina Fukushi, Tokyo is home. But growing up as a mixed-race child in Japan wasn't always easy. With a Japanese-American father and a Filipina mother, Fukushi was one of a growing ...

TOKYO (dpa) – Dakko-chan (Hugging Baby), which was once Japan’s most popular doll in 1960s, will be back to the Japanese market this spring, after much criticism about the controversial doll. Back in ...

The Yokohama Doll Museum in Kanagawa Prefecture is one of the largest doll museums in Japan. The museum’s collection showcases 1,300 dolls from 140 countries around the world, including traditional ...

Just ahead of the Tokyo Olympics, a Naomi Osaka Barbie Role Model doll was released by Mattel. It celebrates the athlete who became “the first Japanese player to win a major title in a singles match” ...

SPOKANE — In the late 1920s, things were not so good between Japan and the United States. Long before World War II, tensions mounted — over the treatment of Japanese immigrants here, and the ...

For 18-year-old model Rina Fukushi, Tokyo is home. But growing up as a mixed-race child in Japan wasn’t always easy. With a Japanese-American father and a Filipina mother, Fukushi was one of a growing ...