"It's repeatedly soaked and dried for one year, which helps make it durable ... even among other Japanese companies. "Usually they don't understand the things we are making here," he says.

When things get low, we ask ... Kodawari in Japanese is an obsession about continuing to improve your craft. Like craftsmen in Japan, a woodworker who makes one thing his whole life.

Take off on a nine-day, small-group trip to Japan showcasing the skyscrapers and ... Now, more than a century later, Kyoto’s craft game is still going strong. In the old-timey machiya ...

At the center of the circle is Eiko Araki, a master of the Sanuki Kagari Temari, a Japanese traditional craft passed down ... remembered there are beautiful things in this world that can only ...