Japan's geisha are experts in their field, but they're often treated like tourist attractions. Learn why Kyoto officials have ...

KYOTO, Japan — On the quiet streets of Kyoto you will get a glimpse of them. Dressed in Kimono. The familiar white makeup. Walking quickly. That is the extent of what most people see of a geisha.

Geisha numbered as many as 80,000 in Japan during the 1920s, and were still part of a thriving industry as recently as the 1950s and ’60s. According to Keiji Chiba, 66, ...

KYOTO, Japan » Like ghosts from another time, the real geishas seem to float silently along the streets at twilight, making their way to teahouses and restaurants where they will entertain elite ...

For decades, a pic's international marketing followed the cues of the all-important domestic launch. But the Japanese campaign for "Memoirs of a Geisha" is more lavish -- and on a much faster ...

Japanese geisha “Chacha” sits on her knees with her fingertips neatly placed on the wooden floor, gracefully bowing to an audience sitting not in front of her but miles away, watching online.

The cherry blossoms had come and gone and soft June rains had begun to fall on the dark wooden houses near the Sumida River when Aguri, 6, was confronted with her life’s work. “I didn&#… ...

“Japan,” says one oldtime patron of the Sumida houses, “is the land of the vanishing geisha. In the end they will wind up as purely tourist attractions—like the Navajo Indians.” ...

A great exchange rate, ChatGPT, and kimono-wearing bros have turned Kyoto into the loveliest tourist trap on earth.

In total contrast stands the Japanese Geisha, neat, skilled in traditional songs, graceful in age-old dances and minutely educated in a polite ritual which by no means always ends in nimble leaping.