This comes after officials in Japan’s popular Geisha district in Kyoto announced ... after facing years of complaints over the growing buzz of photography. A growing influx of foreign tourists ...

Takeuchi Mariko, the photography critic ... since that stereotype only exists abroad; in Japan, geisha are entertainers, not sex workers. The present brings us, for example, the painterly Rinko ...

Japan’s ancient capital of Kyoto, long a popular destination for tourists, is closing off some private-property alleys in its famous geisha district because of complaints about misbehaving visitors.