It started as a joke over too much sake. It was 1975, in Kyoto, Japan. The American Fulbright student was dining with a motherly ex-geisha who had befriended her and with some of the other geisha, and ...

NOT just anyone can become a geisha, a member of a select society of Japanese women who train for years to become first-class musicians and dancers. Liza Crihfield Dalby of Berkeley is the only ...

A few years ago, in her best-selling book, Sex Secrets of an American Geisha: How to Attract, Satisfy, and Keep Your Man Positively Sexual, the Korean-American writer Py Kim Conant offered a piece of ...

The posters of geishas -- everywhere -- were driving Scott Tadashi Tsuchitani bonkers. "When I first saw those images throughout the city, it annoyed me," says the Bay Area native of the omnipresent ...

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 opened the 2013 American Music Awards with a eye-raising rendition of her latest single, "Unconditionally." Dressed in a custom kimono created by her stylist, Johnny Wujek, the 29-year-old ...

A U.S. grad student (Pam Dawber) in Japan explores the ancient tradition of the geisha---women trained in fine arts, conversation and companionship. Kangoro: Richard Narita. Ann: Dorothy McGuire.

EVEN within Japan, Sayuki is saying, geisha is a foreign culture. "They tell new girls coming in: 'Just imagine that you've arrived at a foreign country and you're going to have to learn a new way of ...