Raft-like platforms float on the bay’s surface at the Mikimoto Tatoku Pearl Farm in Japan, while underwater thousands of oysters are held in nets to create pearls that are sold around the world.

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Founded in Ginza, Japan, in 1893, Mikimoto is a high-end jeweler that specializes in cultured pearls. Industry experts and consumers with an affinity for the stone worldwide often regard the brand ...

Gathered around the furnace were Japan’s leading pearl dealers. “Banzai!” they shouted. “May you live 10,000 years, oh Most Honorable Kokichi Mikimoto! Banzai! The price of pearls has ...

Japan is home to the world’s most famous and sophisticated Mikimoto pearls. The indigenous craft began its first pearl cultivation in 1893 at a pearl oyster farm at the Shinmei inlet on Ago Bay in Mie ...

Mikimoto has emerged as a superpower in the jewelry market, gifting the world with beguiling pearl confections that have amassed its reputation as Japan’s official jeweler. “This collaboration ...

TOKYO -- Japan's Mikimoto is raising the prices of its flagship pearl jewelry for the first time in six years, joining other global jewelers in bumping up tags due to the higher cost of materials ...

Kyoto was the ancient capital of Japan and is currently a cultural hub with various different festivals and celebrations.Another very interesting place that we visited was Mikimoto Pearl Island.

Mikimoto has emerged as a superpower in the jewelry market, gifting the world with beguiling pearl confections that have ...

In Japan, pearl oysters (Pinctada fucata ... Entrepreneur, farmer, and merchant Kokichi Mikimoto is widely credited with first developing cultured pearls 130 years ago and the legacy lives ...

MIKIMOTO & CO., LTD, Pearl Research Institute and Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, have constructed a high-quality, chromosome-scale genome of pearl oysters, which they hope can be ...