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 ...

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 ...

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 ...