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A woman in China claims that she was detained and interrogated by police after they spotted her wearing a white kimono while taking photos in Suzhou, China. The woman posted about the alleged incident ...

Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of sexual violence some readers may find disturbing. A Chinese woman was stopped from entering a tourist place in China’s southwestern province of ...

A video that went viral on Chinese social media over the weekend showed what looked like policemen shouting at a young woman dressed in a traditional Japanese costume. According to the woman, who is a ...

In August 2022 a young woman wearing a yukata – a simple, summer-weight kimono – was having her photo taken on a street in picturesque Suzhou, China, when she was accosted by a police officer.

A Chinese woman claimed she was detained by police in Suzhou for wearing a Japanese kimono and taking pictures on the street. A video on social media showed police accosting the woman, identified only ...

A scandal has erupted in China after a policeman detained a Chinese woman wearing a kimono, claiming she was “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” by wearing the traditional Japanese garment on the ...

A video of university security guards attacking a man wearing a “kimono” last Sunday has gone viral in China, stirring heated debate online over the country’s easily stoked anti-Japanese sentiment.

A woman wearing a kimono and walking on the street on China's National Memorial Day for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre, which fell on Monday, was severely criticized and educated. Local police in ...

A video of university security guards attacking a man wearing a “kimono” last Sunday has gone viral in China, stirring heated debate online over the country’s easily stoked anti-Japanese sentiment.