A family in Massachusetts was recently going through their late father's belongings when they came across a trove of Japanese ...

Thanks to modern-day genome sequencing technology, we now know more about Japan's ancient world than ever before — and all ...

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 ...

KASUGA, Fukuoka Prefecture--Prehistoric people in Japan apparently used an advanced system of weights and measurements on a decimal basis, excavations at a Yayoi Pottery Culture Period (1000 B.C ...

In the waning years of the Jomon Pottery Culture Period (c ... Hiroshi Kito's "Jinko kara Yomu Nihon no Rekishi" (Reading Japanese history from Japanese population). With Tohoku residents vastly ...

In the 500 year old art of Kintsugi, which translates more or less as ‘joining with gold’, broken pottery is repaired with a seam of lacquer and precious metal. Trust the Japanese to ...

He returned to Japan to give a lecture about his recent successes, but he also had something else on his mind: pottery. Back then, Robert Yellin was a journalist at an English-language newspaper ...

Okinawa, the southernmost islands of Japan, was once ruled by an independent ... foreign influences is reflected in its distinctive pottery called Yachimun, which are part and parcel of everyday ...

Tomomi Miyajima, founder of Tokiya Japan, showed Good Morning Washington's Megan Clarke how to wear a traditional kimono.