The word suggests the vase held fragrant oil used during Catholic Mass, and likely for a very important person. The item is owned by a family that lives in the Sotome district, where Japanese ...

You sent photos and celebrity antique appraiser Dr. Lori studied them. See how much a Japanese vase, radio marine and Elvis decoupage are worth, over or under $50. Can you guess which of these ...

Thatched roofs were once a common sight in the Japanese countryside, but they started to disappear in the 1950s, when people began migrating en masse to the cities. You can still see them in ...

Call it destiny, call it a coincidence or call it luck but it is fitting Glory Vase shares a name with ... Group One Longines Hong Kong Vase. The Japanese raider captured the 2,400m contest ...

JOMON (10,000 - 300 B.C.) Prehistoric period of tribal/clan organization. Stone Age hunters and gatherers who make jomon (rope-patterned) pottery inhabit Japan. 660 B.C. Mythological Jimmu ("Divine ...

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Well-credentialed Japanese stayer Shahryar is out of Sunday’s Group One Longines Hong Kong Vase (2,400m). Shahryar was a notable omission from the field for the first of Sunday’s Hong Kong ...

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The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...

Japan has - for the first time - issued a warning about an increased risk of a "major earthquake" striking in the near future. The advisory was issued on Thursday night local time, telling people ...

Japan has unexpectedly fallen into a recession after its economy shrank for two quarters in a row. The country's gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by a worse-than-expected 0.4% in the last ...