Scene: Like similar places elsewhere, the usual chairs, mirrors, and bottles; the usual odor of the usual hair-tonic. CUSTOMERS: allowing for differences of dress, and the single feminine presence — ...

Individualism finds a champion, but children's cinema is the loser in "Yoshino's Barber Shop," a Japanese morality movie about an out-of-town boy who refuses to get his hair cut like everyone else.

A 108-year-old Japanese woman has been certified the world’s oldest barber, Guinness World Records said - and she has pledged to keep working until at least 110. Shitsui Hakoishi, born in 1916, ...

In 25 years in Japan I've never been to a barber shop. Heck, a haircut there costs at least 3,000. I go to a salon where I get a cut, a shampoo and a massage for 2,600. It takes about 45-50 minutes. I ...

Hundreds of rowdy spectators, many heavily tattooed, roared Monday at a Tokyo arena usually reserved for boxing -- except the contestants were not athletes, but barbers. A dozen Japanese and foreign ...

One unconventional barber shop in Tokyo is offering free 'crazy' hair cuts to customers who are not afraid of a total makeover ahead of their year-end parties. Roselle Chen reports. 27,116 people ...

The Japanese town destroyed by the Fukushima earthquake was utterly deserted – until one brave couple moved back home and set up business. Barber Kato and his wife pass through police road blocks ...

Tadashi Muragi is a 46-year-old Tokyo hairdresser with a 22-year career of scissor wielding already behind him. Clad in a clean white barber suit at his classically styled, five-seat shop, Muragi may ...

Shitsui Hakoishi holds a certificate presented by Ben Meyers, right, in Nakagawa, Tochigi Prefecture, on Jan. 7, 2024. (Mainichi/Mie Omokawa) NAKAGAWA, Tochigi -- A woman living in this eastern Japan ...

HIGASHI-OSAKA, Osaka Pref. -- It's the usual shopping arcade stretching from a train station, a sight seen anywhere in Japan, except that a castle comes into view between arcade ceilings. Kosaka ...

There’s no such thing as a free lunch… or decent free haircut, apparently. It seems Snickers – everyone’s favourite nougat-topped caramel and peanut chocolate bar – is branching out. But no, they’re ...

Hundreds of rowdy spectators roared at a Tokyo arena usually reserved for boxing — except the contestants were not athletes, but barbers. Hundreds of rowdy spectators, many heavily tattooed, roared ...