YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — Japan's Coming of Age Day is ... Citizens around the nation turn out to admire the elaborate outfits young people don to celebrate the milestone from child to adult.
Thousands of young people in the Japanese city of Yokohama attended the Coming of Age ceremony on Monday to mark the start of their adulthood. Coming of Age Day, observed annually on the second Monday ...
Fewer and fewer people regularly wear kimono in Japan and the kimono industry is shrinking. Cliffe said she wants to make a breakthrough in reviving it. “The making of kimono is closely related ...