Prasso, a former Business Week Asia editor, asks if Westerners can look objectively at the Eastern region, blinded as they are by ""issues of race and sex, fantasy and power."" It's this worldview-one ...

Asian Art Museum Night of the Geisha gala dinner-dance celebrates the opening of "Geisha: Beyond the Painted Smile," the Asian's exhibition about the cultural perceptions of this uniquely Japanese ...

Geisha and maiko (teenage apprentices training to become geisha) are women who perform Japanese traditional arts such as singing, dancing and playing instruments to entertain customers while they dine ...

When American writer Liza Dalby first ventured to Japan in the late ’60s, misconception of Eastern culture was commonplace in the West. So when she returned in the mid ’70s as a Fulbright scholar, she ...

Katy Perry’s geisha-themed opening performance at this year’s American Music Awards has been targeted as possibly racist by some, but at least one Asian American group is giving Perry’s show a thumbs ...

She thrilled her fans when she dressed in a kimono during a tour of Japan earlier this month. But Katy Perry has been accused of being racist after dressing as a Japanese geisha for the opening ...