Stone Age hunters and gatherers who make jomon (rope-patterned) pottery inhabit Japan. 660 B.C. Mythological Jimmu ("Divine ... Legends surrounding the founding of Japan are compiled as history in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you picture a timeline of Japanese history, which side is the Jomon Pottery Culture Period (c. 14500 B.C.-1000 B.C.) on? Is it right or left? Since ancient times, the passage of time has ...