There are thought to be about 190,000 Japanese restaurants around the world, most run by non-natives. Some are master chefs, but others lack training. The result is Japanese in name only ...

Narrator: Japanese chef's knives are world-renowned for their ... of the skills a Japanese artisan spends a lifetime learning to master. So what makes these knives so coveted?

In the early 2010s, the American chef Ivan Orkin left Japan. He moved to a house in Westchester in upstate New York, an hour’s drive from his childhood home on Long Island, opening an outpost of ...