Japan's Environment Ministry plans to compile by March an action plan aimed at reducing large amounts of clothing waste from ...

A customer visits a secondhand clothes shop in the Harajuku district of Tokyo - Copyright AFP Philip FONG A customer visits a secondhand clothes shop in the Harajuku ...

BELDANGI ONE REFUGEE CAMP, Nepal, March 1 (UNHCR) - Japan's popular Uniqlo casual clothing chain has distributed 50,000 pieces of second-hand clothing to refugees at this camp in eastern Nepal. The ...

Tokyo has easily become one of the most eclectic cities for fashion, judging from street style alone. That sense of mixing and matching to create styles that seem wholly original stems from Japanese ...

Your used clothes might go straight in the dump, or they might travel the world before being burned in an open fire. Here's why. Laura wrote about e-commerce and Amazon, and she occasionally covered ...

Apparel and footwear production contribute to around 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. The fashion industry also produces 20 percent of global wastewater, and 85 percent of textiles end ...