TOKYO "The wound is the place where the light enters you." These words, by the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi, sang in my head as I examined a simple ceramic bowl in a tiny cafe in a western suburb of ...

Give new life to broken ceramic pieces and create your own traditional Japanese kintsugi works of art at this one-day class. Based on the Japanese wabi-sabi philosophy of finding beauty within ...

Out of all of Japanese pottery master Kondo Takahiro’s works, the ones that came after the largest earthquake in his country’s history feel particularly resonant. As the disaster became known, 3/11 ...

If other coaches aren’t trying to motivate their players by comparing their teams with centuries-old Japanese pottery-repair techniques, maybe they’re just not trying hard enough. ExploreMore AJC ...