Sporting a white dress and a red headscarf, Japan’s version of a Barbie doll has a new look to battle the stigma of alopecia areata, an intractable immune disease that causes patchy hair loss.

Hype in the United States over two blockbuster movie releases has taken a culturally insensitive turn in Japan. "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" opened in US theaters on the same day, July 21, prompting ...

A doctor in Thailand has advised Thai tourists to reconsider their travel plans to Japan following the death of Taiwanese actress Barbie Hsu due to influenza complicated by pneumonia. Dr.

The dolls are a part of Barbie's Role Model series ... They also won silver in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, which were held in 2021 because of the global pandemic.