A year after a natural disaster, the resilient artisans of Japan’s Noto Peninsula are forging ahead with support from the ...

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.

In Wajima, the heart of Japan's lacquerware tradition, Paul Carter meets a community determined to preserve their craft. From the intricate layering glossy lacquer to precision decoration ...

Artisans at Tohoku Kogei Co., a Japanese lacquerware producer based in Sendai’s Aoba Ward, coated each helmet with Japanese lacquer and dye. Tamamushinuri is believed to have been developed for ...

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 ...

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.

VOV.VN - AKATSUKI, an ensemble of four top Japanese musicians, will put on a concert on March 8 in Hue city for the first ...