NESTLED in the mountains of Japan’s Gifu prefecture, Higashi Mino remains a well-kept secret – for now. But with Japan’s new ...

Sometime around A.D. 600 to 700 in Hokkaido, rectangular pit-houses suddenly appear, and a new type of earthenware called "Satsumon" pottery just ... dozens of jars. My Japanese colleagues had ...

Studies of ancient Jomon sites in separate areas of Japan ... pieces of pottery were unearthed compared with similar-size habitats from the period. The surfaces of numerous ceramic pieces bore ...

Kintsugi is a traditional Japanese craft technique that utilizes lacquer and gold to repair broken ceramic pieces ... ‘forgiven’ as they think of the pottery works as their own selves and ...