In Japan plus-size girls, some of whom lovingly call themselves “ Marshmallow Girls,” face the same difficulties but now one Japanese costume company is trying to change that.

Cosplay is a style, a fashion and it’s for young people.” Nang Monin, 26, a civil servant for the Ministry of Interior, moderates the Facebook group KH Anime Fanclub in his spare time and said he was ...

All kinds of Japanese culture enthusiasts converged at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s annual Cherry Blossom Festival, Sakura Matsuri, this weekend.

TOKYO -- A cosplay artist in Japan is calling on people to help allow breaks for cosplayers wearing layers of clothing and battling the intense summer heat for hours at outdoor photo shoots.

A new draft law on public security includes a clause criminalising the wearing of clothes that might be ‘hurtful to the spirit and sentiments of the nation’.

Immerse yourself in Japanese pop culture at the free one-day-only anime and manga convention in Brooklyn. The third annual ...

She is one of the 400 kosupure ("cosplay," or "costume players") who created a world of fantasy in a hall at Tokyo's Harumi Passenger Terminal on Feb. 24.

In what has become an annual springtime tradition, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's weekend-long Sakura Matsuri celebration ended Sunday evening with the rowdy Cosplay Fashion Show, as some two dozen ...

Harajuku is known as one of Tokyo’s most fashionable districts, and even within the neighborhood, Takeshita Street, aka Takeshita-dori, is known for its particularly unique styles…and even by ...