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Year's first trading day at Nagoya Stock Exchange

Women dressed in traditional kimono attend a ceremony at the Nagoya Stock Exchange on Jan. 4, 2024, to mark the first trading day of the year.

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Year's first trading day at Osaka Exchange

Women dressed in traditional kimono attend a ceremony at the Osaka Exchange on Jan. 4, 2023, to mark the first trading day of the year.

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Year's first trading day at Osaka Exchange

Women dressed in traditional kimono attend a ceremony at the Osaka Exchange on Jan. 4, 2023, to mark the first trading day of the year.

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Stock trading starts in Tokyo

TOKYO, Jan. 4 Kyodo - Women in kimono attend a ceremony marking the year's first trading at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Jan. 4, 2016. Tokyo stocks fell in early trading, with investor sentiment dampened by declines in New York stocks before the end of last year.

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1st stock trading of 2015

TOKYO, Japan - Women wearing kimono pose for photos during a ceremony marking the first trading session of 2015 at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Jan. 5, 2015.

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Colonial-era Japanese department store revived in Tainan

TAINAN, Taiwan - Locals in Japanese yukata (summer-time kimono) parade in front of Lin Department Store, reopened in Tainan, southern Taiwan, on June 14, 2014. The store first opened in 1932 and was operated by a Japanese entrepreneur during Taiwan's 1895-1945 colonization by Japan.

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Empress chose kimono to support emperor

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko bow to bereaved families of victims of the devastating March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, during a government ceremony in Tokyo on March 11, 2012, to mark the first anniversary of the disaster. The empress chose to wear a kimono and Japanese sandals so she could move more easily to support the emperor, who had been discharged from the hospital a week earlier after undergoing heart bypass surgery on Feb. 18, in the event he were to fall, a senior Imperial Household Agency official said on March 15. (Pool photo)

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Ikenobo school holds year's 1st flower arrangement practice

KYOTO, Japan - Women wearing kimono take part in the year's first practice of arranging flowers under the Ikenobo school at the school's practice site in Kyoto on Jan. 5, 2010. About 1,300 pupils from across the country, aged between 10 and 93, joined the traditional ceremony of ikebana, or the Japanese art of flower arranging.

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Ikenobo school holds year's 1st flower arrangement practice

KYOTO, Japan - Women wearing kimono take part in the year's first practice of arranging flowers under the Ikenobo school, as the headmaster Senei Ikenobo (2nd from R in back) and his daughter and headmaster-designate Yuki look on at the school's practice site in Kyoto on Jan. 5, 2010. About 1,300 pupils from across the country, aged between 10 and 93, joined the traditional ceremony of ikebana, or the Japanese art of flower arranging.

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Tokyo stocks rise on 2010 1st trading day

TOKYO, Japan - A woman dressed in kimono (3rd from R) rings a bell to celebrate the start of the first trading day of the year during the annual ''daihakkai'' ceremony also attended by other officials at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Jan. 4, 2010.

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Tokyo stocks rise on 2010 1st trading day

TOKYO, Japan - Women dressed in kimono and others attend the annual ''daihakkai'' ceremony to start the first trading day of the year at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Jan. 4, 2010.

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Tokyo stocks rise on 2010 1st trading day

OSAKA, Japan - Women dressed in traditional kimono and others raise hands for a set of three ''banzai'' cheers during the annual ''daihakkai'' ceremony to start the first trading day of the year at the Osaka Securities Exchange on Jan. 4, 2010.

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Tokyo stocks rise on 2010 1st trading day

OSAKA, Japan - Women dressed in traditional kimono and others strike ''hyoshigi'' clappers during the annual ''daihakkai'' ceremony to start the first trading day of the year at the Osaka Securities Exchange on Jan. 4, 2010.

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Anticancer sake festival held at Nara temple

NARA, Japan - Women in kimono, each holding a 1-meter-long bamboo tube, serve hot sake to visitors at a festival to pray for cancer prevention at Daianji Temple in the city of Nara on Jan. 23. Sake is first poured into the bamboo tube and heated with fire before being given to visitors in the ''Sasazake Matsuri'' (bamboo leaf sake festival), which dates back to the eighth century.

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Nikkei tops 9,000 for 1st time in 2 months

TOKYO, Japan - Officials dressed in traditional kimono at the Tokyo Stock Exchange and other officials, including from brokerage houses, applaud during a ceremony to mark the beginning of this year's trading at the TSE on Jan. 5. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average gained 183.56 points, or 2.07 percent, to close the half-day session at 9,043.12, topping the 9,000 mark for the first time in nearly two months.

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Ikenobo school holds year's first flower arrangement practice

KYOTO, Japan - Women wearing traditional Japanese kimono take part in the year's first practice of arranging flowers under the Ikenobo school Jan. 5 at a practice site in Kyoto of the school head. About 1,400 pupils, aged between 11 and 97 from the nation, joined the event held at three practice sites in the ancient Japanese capital.

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First kimono collection held in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - A model shows off her wear at the first 'Kyoto Kimono Collection'' held at the Kyoto International Hall in Japan's ancient capital on Feb. 1.

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(6)Abductees spend their time in hometown

HAMO, Japan - Clad in kimono, Hitomi Soga, one of five Japanese on their first homecoming since being abducted to North Korea in 1978, attends a ''Shichi-go-san'' ceremony for her nephew Daisuke at a Shinto shrine in Sadogashima Island, Niigata Prefecture, on Oct. 19. (Pool photo)

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Dollar firmer against yen in year's first Tokyo trading

TOKYO, Japan - Some dealers in traditional kimono sit for the year's first trading at a Tokyo foreign exchange house Jan. 4. The U.S. dollar was firmer against the yen in early trading compared with its level in New York late Jan. 3.

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Cabinet members meet following overhaul of bureaucracy

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (R, front), land minister Chigage Ogi (L, in kimono) and other cabinet members hold their first meeting at the premier's official residence following an overhaul of the bureaucracy on Jan. 6. The central government was reorganized into 13 ministries and agencies the same day, shrinking it from 23 entities.

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Tokyo stocks decline in year's 1st trading day

TOKYO, Japan - A woman in a kimono rings a bell to mark the start of the year's first trading day at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in the Nihombashi-Kabutocho district on Jan. 4. The Nikkei Stock Average closed lower in the half-day trading as the outlook for the Japanese economy remained bleak.

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Kimono show attracts Shanghai people

SHANGHAI, China - Japanese models show off kimonos at a show in Shanghai on Sept. 9. Wearing kimonos has become fashionable in the city, particularly at wedding ceremonies. Supported by the Japan foundation, the show is visiting nine Chinese cities, including Beijing. It is the first kimono fashion show in China.

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Chinese first lady attends a kimono show

Wang Yeping, wife of Chinese President Jiang Zemin, smiles at an unidentified kimono-clad Japanese girl at a Kimono dressing show held for her at the Akasaka state guesthouse on Friday, Nov. 27.

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First trading day of year for Japanese stocks

Women dressed in traditional kimono pose for a photo after attending a ceremony at the Nagoya Stock Exchange on Jan. 4, 2022, to mark the first trading day of the year.

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First trading day of year at Osaka Exchange

Women dressed in traditional kimono pose for a photo after attending a ceremony at the Osaka Exchange on Jan. 4, 2022, to mark the first trading day of the year.

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First trading day of year at Osaka Exchange

Women dressed in traditional kimono attend a ceremony at the Osaka Exchange on Jan. 4, 2022, to mark the first trading day of the year.

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First trading day of year at Osaka Exchange

Women dressed in traditional kimono attend a ceremony at the Osaka Exchange on Jan. 4, 2022, to mark the first trading day of the year.

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Dollar firmer against yen in year's first Tokyo trading

TOKYO, Japan - Some dealers in traditional kimono sit for the year's first trading at a Tokyo foreign exchange house Jan. 4. The U.S. dollar was firmer against the yen in early trading compared with its level in New York late Jan. 3.

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Nikkei tops 9,000 for 1st time in 2 months

TOKYO, Japan - Officials dressed in traditional kimono at the Tokyo Stock Exchange and other officials, including from brokerage houses, applaud during a ceremony to mark the beginning of this year's trading at the TSE on Jan. 5. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average gained 183.56 points, or 2.07 percent, to close the half-day session at 9,043.12, topping the 9,000 mark for the first time in nearly two months. (Kyodo)

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New Year flower arranging ceremony

Dressed in kimono, disciples of the Ikenobo Japanese flower arrangement school participate in a New Year flower arranging ceremony in the ancient Japanese city of Kyoto on Jan. 5, 2016. Around 1,500 people took part in the annual tradition, which first began in the Muromachi period between the 14th and 16th centuries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New Year flower arranging ceremony

Dressed in kimono, disciples of the Ikenobo Japanese flower arrangement school participate in a New Year flower arranging ceremony in the ancient Japanese city of Kyoto on Jan. 5, 2016. Around 1,500 people took part in the annual tradition, which first began in the Muromachi period between the 14th and 16th centuries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New Year flower arranging ceremony

Dressed in kimono, disciples of the Ikenobo Japanese flower arrangement school participate in a New Year flower arranging ceremony in the ancient Japanese city of Kyoto on Jan. 5, 2016. Around 1,500 people took part in the annual tradition, which first began in the Muromachi period between the 14th and 16th centuries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Lawmakers attend 1st Diet session with kimono

Ruling Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Sadakazu Tanigaki (C) and other lawmakers pose for photos wearing kimonos in front of Japan's parliament in Tokyo on Jan. 4, 2016, the start of a 150-day ordinary Diet session. Some lawmakers wear kimono on the first day of a new parliamentary session as an annual tradition. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Lawmakers attend 1st Diet session with kimono

Ruling Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Sadakazu Tanigaki (C) and other lawmakers pose for photos wearing kimonos in front of Japan's parliament in Tokyo on Jan. 4, 2016, the start of a 150-day ordinary Diet session. Some lawmakers wear kimono on the first day of a new parliamentary session as an annual tradition. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Stock trading starts in Tokyo

Women in kimono attend a ceremony marking the year's first trading at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Jan. 4, 2016. Tokyo stocks fell in early trading, with investor sentiment dampened by declines in New York stocks before the end of last year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Stock trading starts in Tokyo

Women in kimono attend a ceremony marking the year's first trading at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Jan. 4, 2016. Tokyo stocks fell in early trading, with investor sentiment dampened by declines in New York stocks before the end of last year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kyoto "maiko" girls pay courtesy call in traditional midsummer practice

Two "maiko" girls, or apprentices of "geisha" entertainers, clad in black formal kimono pay a courtesy call at a tea house in Kyoto's Gion district as part of a traditional midsummer practice on Aug. 1, 2015. It is customary for these entertainment girls in Japan's most renowned geisha district to make the rounds on the first day of the eighth month of the ancient Japanese calendar to express their gratitude to tea house owners and other supporters of the traditional dancers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Figure skater Asada appears for TV commercial presentation

Triple world champion and Olympic silver medalist figure skater Mao Asada in kimono (L) poses during a presentation for a TV commercial for a mattress maker at a hotel in Tokyo on May 28, 2015. Asada, who announced a return to competitive figure skating on May 18 after semiretirement in March last year, said it has not been decided when her first completion will be. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Figure skater Asada appears for TV commercial presentation

Triple world champion and Olympic silver medalist figure skater Mao Asada in kimono speaks during a presentation for a TV commercial for a mattress maker at a hotel in Tokyo on May 28, 2015. Asada, who announced a return to competitive figure skating on May 18 after semiretirement in March last year, said it has not been decided when her first completion will be. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Figure skater Asada appears for TV commercial presentation

Triple world champion and Olympic silver medalist figure skater Mao Asada in kimono smiles during a presentation for a TV commercial for a mattress maker at a hotel in Tokyo on May 28, 2015. Asada, who announced a return to competitive figure skating on May 18 after semiretirement in March last year, said it has not been decided when her first completion will be. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New Hokuriku Shinkansen bullet train service starts

Women in kimono greet departing passengers on the platform at JR Kanazawa Station for the first bullet train bound for Tokyo from Kanazawa on the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line in the early morning on March 14, 2015, the day of the launch of the new bullet train service directly linking the Japanese capital with the Hokuriku region on the Sea of Japan coast. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ikenobo school holds year's first flower arrangement practice

KYOTO, Japan - Women wearing traditional Japanese kimono take part in the year's first practice of arranging flowers under the Ikenobo school Jan. 5 at a practice site in Kyoto of the school head. About 1,400 pupils, aged between 11 and 97 from the nation, joined the event held at three practice sites in the ancient Japanese capital. (Kyodo)

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Anticancer sake festival held at Nara temple

NARA, Japan - Women in kimono, each holding a 1-meter-long bamboo tube, serve hot sake to visitors at a festival to pray for cancer prevention at Daianji Temple in the city of Nara on Jan. 23. Sake is first poured into the bamboo tube and heated with fire before being given to visitors in the ''Sasazake Matsuri'' (bamboo leaf sake festival), which dates back to the eighth century. (Kyodo)

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Women on jinrikishas

Three kimono-clad women are riding three jinrikisha (rickshaws). The women in front and rear are holding an umbrella. The first rickshaw man wears a sacerdotal robe, long underwear and straw sandals, while the one in the middle wears a straw hat and long underwear, and the third man wears a head towel, sacerdotal robe and long underwear. House roofs are visible under the cherry trees in the background.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number96‐56‐0]

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A leisure boat on the Sumida River

This same photograph can be found in the memorial photograph album of Charles Appleton Longfellow, first son of the famous American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow who lived in Japan from 1871 to 1873. Charles may have asked Uchida Kuichi to take this shot, and it could be Charles wearing a kimono and looking out from between the shoji screens. The woman second from the left is Okiku, owner of the restaurant Yumei-ro at Sanyabori, and the other women are Charles' favourite geisha. The roofed boat probably belongs to Yumei-ro.==Date:about 1872, Place:Tokyo, Photo:Uchida Kuichi, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number53‐50‐0]

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Empress chose kimono to support emperor

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko bow to bereaved families of victims of the devastating March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, during a government ceremony in Tokyo on March 11, 2012, to mark the first anniversary of the disaster. The empress chose to wear a kimono and Japanese sandals so she could move more easily to support the emperor, who had been discharged from the hospital a week earlier after undergoing heart bypass surgery on Feb. 18, in the event he were to fall, a senior Imperial Household Agency official said on March 15. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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1st stock trading of 2015

TOKYO, Japan - Women wearing kimono pose for photos during a ceremony marking the first trading session of 2015 at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Jan. 5, 2015. (Kyodo)

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Ikenobo school holds year's 1st flower arrangement practice

KYOTO, Japan - Women wearing kimono take part in the year's first practice of arranging flowers under the Ikenobo school at the school's practice site in Kyoto on Jan. 5, 2010. About 1,300 pupils from across the country, aged between 10 and 93, joined the traditional ceremony of ikebana, or the Japanese art of flower arranging. (Kyodo)

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Ikenobo school holds year's 1st flower arrangement practice

KYOTO, Japan - Women wearing kimono take part in the year's first practice of arranging flowers under the Ikenobo school, as the headmaster Senei Ikenobo (2nd from R in back) and his daughter and headmaster-designate Yuki look on at the school's practice site in Kyoto on Jan. 5, 2010. About 1,300 pupils from across the country, aged between 10 and 93, joined the traditional ceremony of ikebana, or the Japanese art of flower arranging. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo stocks rise on 2010 1st trading day

OSAKA, Japan - Women dressed in traditional kimono and others raise hands for a set of three ''banzai'' cheers during the annual ''daihakkai'' ceremony to start the first trading day of the year at the Osaka Securities Exchange on Jan. 4, 2010. (Kyodo)