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...pearl market changed in the early 1890s, however, when Japan's Kokichi Mikimoto first successfully cultured pearls, artificially mimicking the natural process and allowing pearls for the first time to be matched for necklaces. A century later, Chinese farmers have further perfected this technique, yielding more than 1,500 tons of freshwater pearls last year, or 95% of the world's pearl production. "Today, the quality of Chinese cultured pearls matches some of the best natural pearls ever found," says Hong Kong gemologist Henry Cheng...
...There's no dispute, however, over the fact that Hong Kong is the place to buy them. Since the late 1980s, the city has slowly usurped Kobe, Japan, as Asia's leading pearl trading post, helped in part by a red-tide disease that destroyed most of Japan's major pearl farms in the 1990s. Hong Kong also enjoys its proximity to China's pearl farms, and the absence of import taxes. Annual trade shows now not only bring buyers from around the globe for China's freshwater jewels, but also auctions for the products of the world's largest...
Though I was born after Vatican II, I did not grow up comprehending the liturgy. In Japan, Mass was said in a traditional form of Japanese too obscure for me to grasp. Twelve years of Sunday school--held inexplicably and inconveniently on Saturdays--did not help clarify all the mysteries of the missal. My father instructed us to spend the time in prayer. I inspected Jesus on the Cross and wondered what he thought of my life. I inspected the boy across the aisle and wondered what he thought of my hair. There were times I thought I would pass...
...spent hours online Googling things like ‘Ecuador+Harry+Potter+release+date+please+god+tell+me+when,’ all to no avail,” Duncan wrote in an e-mail. “I have a friend in Japan who told me that she had to wait for months for the books to be translated into Japanese, but I think that the Spanish version miiiiight be available within a few days of the English release, July 21. I’d prefer to read it in English, of course, but I’ll take...
Those “drinking rules” I had to explain at that first meeting? None to speak of, considering everyone’s of age. Add to the fact that they’re mostly from abroad—England, the Netherlands, Japan, Australia and Greece, just to name a few in my entryway—and it’s clear that their alcohol consumption is much more akin to “civilized social norm” than the “get-trashed-and-throw-up” mentality that seems to rule in American...