Much low-cost pottery came to America from Japan. Between 1890 and 1914, Japanese pottery made expressly for export to America was marked Nippon (the word for Japan in Japanese).

YORK, ENGLAND—Pottery is thought to have originated with hunter-gatherers in Japan some 16,000 years ago. It was also thought that as the climate warmed at the end of the last Ice Age some ...

While millet was a dietary staple in Korea, especially during the Bronze Age, it barely shows up in early Japanese diets.

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In ancient Japan, people paid taxes with fish sauce Analysis of 1,200-year-old pottery reveals bonito fish sauce was produced in bulk to pay taxes by Soumya Sagar, special to C&EN ...

A group of scientists from the UK, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Japan have been conducting an investigation on the residue left behind in ancient 15,000-year-old pottery. The pottery is used by ...

What most Americans are used to, Lusher explains, are the exported porcelain plates and vases that replicate the sort of pottery made for Japan's upper echelon, the emperors and shoguns.