Japan's geisha are experts in their field, but they're often treated like tourist attractions. Learn why Kyoto officials have ...

Suzuka Ohgo as the young Chiyo, who becomes a geisha in training Soon Chiyo (Suzuka Ohgo) attends classes to learn how to dance, play instruments, sing, and pour tea, all with the flair and ...

Instead, the geisha spends six rigorous years in training, learning the arts of conversation, music and a sort of distinctive and firm politesse that does not brook even remotely suggestive remarks.

The history of geishas stretches back nearly 400 years. Scott Swan meets one geisha who says she's the first white woman in Japanese history to join the tradition.

TOKYO – Ikuko, the “big sister” of Tokyo’s Akasaka geisha district, came to the capital to seek her fortune in 1964, the year Tokyo first hosted the Olympics. But the novel coronavirus ...

But after 18 months of rigorous training, Noriye entertained her first customers as a geisha at a Tokyo ryotei restaurant -- an upscale eatery specializing in traditional Japanese dishes.

As Sayuri, the uber-geisha in training during pre-World War II Japan, Zhang gets to strut and flirt and pout, and she does it radiantly. The obligatory montage that highlights her transformation ...

"In Kyoto there are about 150 geiko — ‘geisha’ in the local dialect — and maiko, geisha-in-training, left in Kyoto," according to Anne Alene, an in-country guide for a recent trip to Japan ...

MITO--Yasuko Yasuhara, once a top party hostess in this Ibaraki prefectural capital, made an inevitable career shift as she ...