At Katsuo-ji Temple, Daruma dolls watch from every corner. They peer between tree branches, cluster around altars, and dot winding pathways, flashes of bright red among the hillside forest. The iconic ...

It was one of around 13,000 “blue-eyed dolls” sent to Japan 14 years earlier by a U.S.-based group as a gesture of friendship as relations between the two countries started plummeting ...

People across Asia flocked to shopping malls and online stores Friday as they scrambled to get their hands on the latest ...

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.

This is the fourth installment in the “Fearful Dolls” series, which consists of image dramas and real-life dramas based on a selection of horror stories from schools, hospitals, inns ...

The iconic Japanese dolls range from a couple of inches to several feet in height, and there are thousands of them at the 1,300-year-old temple, located about an hour from downtown Osaka in Minoh ...