Vending machines and traditional wooden kokeshi dolls are both icons of Japanese culture, and a hot spring resort in northeastern Fukushima Prefecture has combined the two. The novelty of being ...

YAESE, Okinawa Prefecture--Born in the year of Okinawa's reversion to Japan in 1972, a locally handcrafted wooden doll with a cylindrical body is enjoying a rebirth after nearly being left for ...

SETO, Aichi Prefecture--Four wooden crates that lay in ... Plastic Lace Dolls were exported to the United States when Japan was under the thumb of the General Headquarters of the Allied Forces ...

Japanese doll maker Kyugetsu Co. unveils "hina" dolls of Los Angeles Dodger Shohei Ohtani, Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura, table tennis player Hina Hayata, track and field athlete Nozomi Tanaka, ...

(Mainichi/Nobumichi Iwasaki) KATSUURA, Chiba -- A total of about 20,000 "hina" dolls will decorate various locations in this eastern Japan city during the Katsuura Big Hina Matsuri festival from ...

As fewer people are displaying hina dolls at home, the company is cooperating to promote traditional culture. The display will continue until March 4. Note: Japanese hina dolls are ornaments for ...