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On March 29, Rihanna's Fenty Beauty announced that it would be launching a red highlighter called "Geisha Chic." After the brand shared photos of the new product on Instagram, customers called the highlighter's name "inappropriate," and accused the brand of being racist.

Rarely are currency exchange rates as good for the American dollar as that of Asian countries. In Asia, the American dollar carries a lot of clout and with the recent devaluation of the USD; it is a good thing that these countries offer an excellent trip for so little cost to Americans.

There are classy stars, and then there are the Media Whores. Kylie Minogue crosses the line in to whoredom posing as a not so lovely looking Geisha girl with a bad makeup job, or a middle age opera star in drag. At first we thought it was Marc Jacobs playing a trick on us...

Anger as film highlights good-time geisha girls By Colin Joyce in Tokyo and Richard Spencer in Beijing (Filed: 30/11/2005) Japan hosted the premiere of a Hollywood film on geishas last night amid anger that the girls are portrayed as prostitutes and the actresses who play them Chinese. Memoirs of a Geisha not only has Chinese leading ladies, it is a screen version of a book by an American, directed by an American and shot in California, not Kyoto, their traditional home. Zhang Ziyi, Michelle Yeoh and Gong Li in Memoirs of a Geisha The film, shown in the national sumo...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A dream team of movie stars from China and Japan gathered in Tokyo on Monday to promote "Memoirs of a Geisha," the first big-budget Hollywood romance to feature an almost entirely Asian cast. But a day ahead of the world premiere, some in Japan were wondering why homegrown talent was shut out of the leading roles in a film that celebrates Japan's unique culture. Harsher comments have come from China, where bitter feelings over Japan's 1931-45 occupation of parts of the country make the idea of Chinese playing geisha unacceptable to some. Based on a best-selling novel,...