When organic chemist Takayuki Honda visited Okinawa Island in southern Japan a few years ago, he purchased a small dish coated with the glossy vermilion lacquer that’s characteristic of the region.

We follow UK-born Suzanne Ross - a lacquerware artisan in Wajima - in her efforts to recover after this January's quake, and meet Chinese Tomoe Setsubai who runs a Japanese confectionery in Yokohama.

For the past five decades, here in his studio in central Tokyo, Tsukamoto has been restoring Japanese pottery in the authentic manner of kintsugi, the art of joining broken pieces with lacquer and ...

To its north lies one of Japan's finest antique communities with some 70 stores selling paintings, crafts, and other antiques. 02:11 Established in 1983, this store's collection includes an array ...

More Trip Ideas: 3 Incredible Itineraries for Travelers Finally Heading Back to Japan For a different approach to lacquerware ...

The 60th Bloomfield Charity Antiques and Collectibles Show returns to Cross of Christ Lutheran Church in Bloomfield Hills ...

NEC Corporation in collaboration with the Kyoto Institute of Technology and a representative Japanese lacquerware artist, Dr. Yutaro Shimode, announced today the development of a bioplastic using ...

When visiting Japan, examples of the country’s distinct ... artists have expanded the boundaries of their craft to produce lacquerware wristwatches and ornate cell phone cases.

A classic Kominka antique house in Japan. The other is Machiya (a merchant townhouse). Like Kominka, machiya has a long history and classic values, but it is mostly located in historic cities like ...