BENGALURU: Miho Sakata Malhan, a Japanese expat living in Bengaluru from 2005, hardly wore a kimono growing up. Or for that matter, she hardly saw her mother wear one either. But her love for textiles ...

The India Japan Golf Cup, organised by FICCI, Japanese Association, Bangalore, and India Japan Initiative (IJI) was a day of fun for the CEOs and head honchos of top Indian and Japanese companies.

In the early 1970s, the skilled artisans who created dazzling Kyoto-style “yuzen” kimonos could barely keep up with demand. Dyers, cloth cutters, designers and everyone in the associated businesses, ...