A Japanese mother had her 9-year-old daughter go under the knife for a double eyelid surgery and is already considering future cosmetic operations, such as a nose job and breast augmentation. The ...

Believing she was ugly and looked like her father who abandoned them to a life of crippling debt, Hirase spent around 24 million yen ($170,000) to “finally be beautiful,” becoming completely ...

Netflix Japan has greenlit Plastic Beauty, a new drama set in the world of cosmetic surgery, for 2026. At the center of Plastic Beauty is Fumi Numata (Mayu Matsuoka), a gifted surgeon whose passion ...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Nearly three dozen patients were treated through a program that brought a plastic surgeon to this airlift hub in western Tokyo for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Compared to the declining interest in Botox and filler (Botox is down 3.3 YoY while facial filler services are down 13.1 YoY) ...

Riisa Naka and Mayu Matsuoka will star as rival surgeons in Netflix‘s upcoming Japanese drama series “Plastic Beauty,” which takes viewers inside Japan’s cosmetic surgery industry. The 2026 series ...

TOKYO — A court in western Japan on Wednesday approved a transgender man’s request to have his gender changed in official records without undergoing sterilization surgery, the first known ruling of ...