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Always enjoy my visits to Koishiwara, the historic pottery town in Kyushu Japan. On any nice dry day, potters will leave their...

Kai the carpenter makes his hinoki chopsticks with something divine? This is the story of the maker and his precious local material....

This is a story about a curry-rice plate got broken because of spicy cod roe. The plate owner Arase (a good friend of mine) visited...

What is it like working with Small-batch producers in rural Japan?