While Stefani’s Harajuku era launched nearly 20 years ago, it’s back in the news due to an interview the singer gave to Allure magazine to mark the launch of her new vegan beauty brand, GXVE Beauty.

Tourists wanting to join tea parties and try the combination of matcha powered green tea and yoga are flocking to the Matcha Tokyo Harajuku, which has opened in the capital's Harajuku district. The ...

Earlier this month, Gwen Stefani’s new TV show Kuu Kuu Harajuku premiered on Nickelodeon. The children’s animated program focuses on four music making, crime-fighting characters, the Harajuku Girls, ...

Here, one weary longtime fan — and fellow lover of Japan and its pop culture — reflects on her own shifting Gwen fandom, and Stefani's continued career of cultural appropriation. The track had already ...

Gwen Stefani’s Harajuku era is once again in the headlines after her most recent comments in which she calls herself Japanese. The singer was asked by Allure to reflect on the debut of her Harajuku ...

In 2004, if there had been an unofficial Queen of Cultural Appropriation, there is no doubt (pun intended) that Gwen Stefani would have worn the crown. The singer had previously committed a multitude ...

Harajuku in Tokyo is known around the world as a street-fashion Mecca. Yonehara Yasumasa has kept a close eye on the neighborhood’s street life, snapping photos with his Cheki instant camera. Here he ...

Gwen Stefani dropped her comeback song, “Baby Don’t Lie” today, and according to Pharrell (the unofficial arbiter of hits du jour), the follow-up album is on “another level.” And that’s all well and ...

For Gwen Stefani fans of a certain generation, “Harajuku” is a part of her identity. Stefani’s 2004 debut solo album Love. Angel. Music. Baby. introduced the singer’s candy-colored, Tokyo-inspired ...

The first thing you’re going to want to do is get sucked into the vortex of Takeshita Street, the shoulder-to-shoulder pedestrian shopping strip located next to Harajuku Station. (If you can, visit on ...

The last stretch of my walk around the Yamanote Line starts in Harajuku, arguably Tokyo’s foremost youth playground. Little has changed since 1992, when I moved to Japan. The only glaring exception is ...