The soundtrack for Japanese choreographer and performer Akira Kasai's 70-minute riff featured a recurrent drone that ascended in pitch, like the noise of a plane readying for takeoff.

Reissues from Herbie Hancock 's jazz-funk catalogue are always welcome, and few more so than Be With Records's vinyl-only edition of this long-neglected beauty. Recorded in Tokyo in 1979, it is ...

A kimono is a garment defined in the dictionary as ‘a long, loose traditional Japanese robe with wide sleeves, tied with a sash’. There are some outlets that just don’t play by the rules ...

NEWS and Mail reader Jill Goldie is looking forward to a night of oriental magic after she won a competition with a Madama Butterfly theme, sponsored by this newspaper.

Looking rosy! Ireland Baldwin is a social butterfly as she greets pals in Malibu wearing a sheer floral kimono. By DAILYMAIL.COM REPORTER . Published: 20:30 EDT, 23 May 2015 | Updated: 20:59 EDT ...