Kyoto
latest news & developments
At climate talks, it’s America alone more than America first
Donald Trump has vowed to exit the Paris Climate accord, just not yet, leaving US policy in limbo for the next three years.
US, China agree on cooperation to tackle climate change
The world’s top greenhouse gas emitters, China and the United States, have signed an agreement to work together to address climate change issues.
Modern mind, ancient spirit
Japan blesses Nicole Johnston with good fortune and a new reverence for vegetables.
Geisha make a comeback
Teenage girls are flocking to enter the ‘floating world’ in a return to traditional Japanese culture.
Geisha make a comeback, and take to cyberspace
Miehina has barely taken a dozen steps along a Kyoto street before the audio backdrop to her every public move comes to life.
Japan’s ‘perfect’ lover celebrates 1 000th birthday
A serial seducer who enchants aristocratic women with poems on scented paper and gifts of luxurious kimono, Genji turns 1 000 this year, his appeal to readers undiminished.…
Apprentice geisha reveals secretive world online
Ichimame’s life is already an endless blur of parties, visits to the hairdresser, kimono fittings, lessons in traditional dance, music and tea ceremony. Even so, the Japanese…
Kyoto Protocol comes of age
The Kyoto Protocol, the world’s most far-reaching environmental treaty, took effect on Wednesday at 5am GMT with 34 industrialised countries legally bound to slash pollution…