Here, one weary longtime fan — and fellow lover of Japan and its pop culture — reflects on her own shifting Gwen fandom, and Stefani's continued career of cultural appropriation. The track had already ...

Little Tokyo gets busy on Saturday afternoons. Even when the crowd was as thick as it was on this unusually warm January weekend, people couldn't help but notice the group parading along 1st Street.

Midori Tajiri-Byrd’s faded lilac mohawk falls across her forehead as she flips through a book of photos. Taken in Tokyo’s Harajuku district, they depict teens and twentysomethings wearing second-hand, ...

A model walks during the D-VEC 2017 Autumn/Winter show at Tokyo Fashion Week on a tiny Harajuku street. Photo: AFP From the neon-lit streets of Tokyo to the cobblestone avenues of Paris, fashion ...

‘Harajuku girls’ are not a monolithic lot. There are literally dozens of different subcultures with their own unique styles. On any given weekend afternoon, visitors to Harajuku’s crowded streets and ...

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Harajuku boutique Wall is bolstering Tokyo’s current wave of emerging designers. The shop is located front-and-center on the ground floor of Harajuku youth mall Laforet. Its convenient location and ...

Last weekend’s Harajuku Street Fashion Party at Hinterland aimed to educate while giving aficonados a chance to deck out in Japanese pop styles and have a good time. If you were there, you might have ...

A brand-new store will open in Tokyo’s Harajuku fashion district on Friday, walls lined with clothes, shoes and handbags — and with a twist: shoppers will walk away empty-handed. The GU Style Studio ...

HARAJUKU-BOUND: GU, the trendier and lower-priced sister brand of Japanese apparel retailer Uniqlo, will test a retail concept with a store set to open in Tokyo‘s trendy Harajuku district in November.

HARAJUKU, TOKYO, JAPAN – In Japan, the culture is just as vibrant as the Olympic games. KPRC 2′s Rose-Ann Aragon experiences a district in Shibuya, Tokyo called Harajuku. Harajuku is a place that ...