Wajima, a picturesque tourist town in Japan, is facing significant devastation following the country's strongest earthquake ...

A shop that has sold Wajima-nuri lacquerware and other homewares for nearly 200 years in a shopping district of Nanao City, Ishikawa Prefecture that was severely damaged by the Noto Peninsula ...

“Wajima-nuri” lacquerware was also a specialty in the ... “I hope people won’t forget about Wajima until it has recovered.” (This article was written by Kyoka Watanabe, Noboru Inoue ...

“I want to convey the attraction of Wajima lacquerware to the rest of the world while showing off the Noto Peninsula’s recovery from the quake disaster at the same time,” said Knigh ...

Wajima-nuri is a lacquerware craft from Ishikawa Prefecture, and one of the oldest traditional crafts in Japan. However, the entire region was devastated by a magnitude 7.6 earthquake on New Year ...

In Wajima, the heart of Japan's lacquerware tradition, Paul Carter meets a community determined to preserve their craft. From the intricate layering glossy lacquer to precision decoration ...