GIMPO, South Korea—Chin Jukan XV believes he has accomplished the wish of the “founding father” of his pottery family ... who operates a famed Satsuma-ware kiln in Hioki, Kagoshima ...

Japan had lived in relative isolation from the outside world. American gunboat diplomacy, instigated by Commodore Perry in 1853, opened up Japan for trade with the West. The Japanese did not wish to ...