Japan's akoya oysters have been preëminent among cultured pearls ever since Kokichi Mikimoto first established the industry in the early part of this century. But since 1994, something has been ...

As testimony to China's achievement, their freshwater pearls are round enough and good enough to pass as Japanese akoya. China already sells round white pearls up to 7mm for perhaps a tenth the ...

Don’t clutch your Japanese Akoya pearls, Premium Netflix users: Those on Netflix’s priciest plan — the 4K/Ultra HD hoighty-toighty one — watched an average of nearly 2 and a half hours of ...

What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like something from a 1950s sci-fi film, but Japanese spider crabs are gentle giants. And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on ...

TOKYO, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Japan's annual wholesale inflation slowed in August as the yen's rebound weighed on import costs, data showed on Thursday, taking some pressure off the central bank to ...

TOKYO ― Japan's annual wholesale inflation slowed in August as the yen's rebound weighed on import costs, data showed on Thursday, taking some pressure off the central bank to address upward price ...