Jobs was in Japan again. This time, he visited Koka, a city famed for ceramics, where he met Takahashi Rakusai the Fifth – a master of the centuries-old Shigaraki-yaki style. Takahashi Rakusai ...

Four museums at two locations (Selb and Hohenberg on der Eger) explore all aspects of the production process, the history of design and ceramic making for medicine and space travel, for example. In ...

Most of the luxury items which were displayed in European palaces or great houses or in Kunstkammern were Japanese ceramics, in particular in the Imari and Kakiemon styles, and porcelain figurines.

With its high-quality clay, Aichi Prefecture has long been a thriving center for the ceramics industry ... a two-story Western-style building, a single-story Japanese-style building, a storehouse ...

Soft diplomacy was needed. With American encouragement, the Japanese offered clay. The little-known role of ceramic statecraft in Cold War geopolitics is the subject of a fascinating exhibition at ...

KYOTO—As many as 500,000 ceramic coins produced during the metal shortages on the Japanese home front during the Pacific War have been discovered here. The Japan Mint said on Oct. 9 that the ...