A longtime Japundit reader alerted me to an important beauty treatment now available at New York’s Shizuka salon, a place I went to once in search of a Japanese-style manicure.
a high-end Japanese spa in midtown, has just introduced a new “Geisha Facial,” which promises to cleanse, brighten, and exfoliate a patron’s face—thanks to a secret […]

Which of the following photos is of real maiko, and which is of fakers?
Photo A.

Photo B.

Answer after the jump. Please do post your response. (No cheating).

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These ladies are […]

CNN.com/Asia has a report claiming that business women in Japan are paying up to $50,000 a night to spend time with hosts that CNN referst to as “geisha guys.”
TOKYO, Japan (CNN) — At first glance, the man and woman at the nightclub look like any other couple on a date. He flirts and pours […]

Sakura - Japanese Cherry Blossoms have been a part of Japanese culture for over a thousand years. They’re the subject of countless poems from waka to haiku.
The Short Happy Life of the Cherry Blossom
This is a photo montage I actually put up a year ago but never made public. It contains shots that I have […]

A while back I posted that Mineko Iwasaki’s memoir, Geisha, A Life, was due to be turned into a TV special in Japan. For a refreseher on the scandal and lawsuit surrounding Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha, see here. See also this archived article which questions Iwasaki’s motives.

Now the TV special has come and […]