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 ...

“It’s hand-painted by a Japanese artist.” These Barbies Are Real! See the Cast of 'Barbie' and the Actual Dolls That Inspired Their Characters "When Mattel first started out producing their ...

Warner Bros. Japan, which distributed “Barbie” in the country, apologized after some memes depicted the Mattel doll with atomic blast imagery. Kazuhiro Maeshima, professor at Sophia ...

As part of Mattel's Barbie Role Models collection, a custom Naomi Osaka doll was created to celebrate her triumphant tennis career. As the first Japanese player to win a Grand Slam and the first ...

Hype in the United States over two blockbuster movie releases has taken a culturally insensitive turn in Japan. "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" opened in US theaters on the same day, July 21, prompting ...

With a schedule packed with ice skating practices, her Barbie dolls became her “best friends ... what she and her family have dealt with as Japanese Americans. She has spoken about how ...