As an American who moved to Okinawa, I decided to compare nail salons in the US and Japan. The 90-minute pedicure I got at Okinawa's Cocok Spa for $40 blew away my experiences in the US. The salon had ...

Arimoto opened a nail salon in her home in 2018 after a spinal condition forced her to give up her career as a social worker, and she's been using Umigomi, or 'sea trash,' to make nail art since 2021 ...

The first thing you notice about salon owner Connie Lee is her nails — long, cotton-candy-pink talons encrusted with glitter and Swarovski crystals. Even so, she applies rhinestones one by one to a ...

Convano Inc. was, until recently, a sleepy Tokyo-listed operator of nail salons. Now it wants to become one of the world’s largest corporate holders of Bitcoin — the latest in a wave of radical ...

You’ve probably seen them on Instagram: long nails covered in more Swarovski crystals than you could ever imagine or Hello Kitty faces protruding out of a French mani. This kind of nail art is ...

Japanese nail salon operator Convano has officially launched its Bitcoin (BTC) acquisition strategy, following its ambitious plan to raise approximately ¥434 billion ($3 billion) to purchase 21,000 ...

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CHIGASAKI, Japan — Before global leaders take the problem of plastic pollution into their hands this month, Japanese manicurist Naomi Arimoto is putting it into her fingernails. At the beach near her ...