Join the extraordinary journey of Japan’s traditional pearl divers through the lens of freediving. This video captures the age-old practice, showcasing the skill, tradition, and resilience of ...

The loss of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse paved the way for Japanese forces to make a successful run on Malaya and ...

and ama are commonly described outside Japan – anachronistically – as “pearl divers”. However, harvesting of natural pearls is all but impossible these days, as the oysters vanished off ...

Its pearl operations include another farm in Fukuoka prefecture, part of Japan’s southern island ... “Back in the day, women divers called ama-san were hired to collect oysters, but nowadays ...

The Saudi Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka hosted an event titled Tales of Water, celebrating two maritime civilizations—separated ...

and the introduction of the Japanese cultured pearl had a significant impact. Types of boats used in pearl diving Four types of boats were majorly used for pearl diving: Shouai - This boat had a ...

Since then, divers haven’t been allowed inside ... and hatred at what had occurred in the Pacific with the Japanese and Pearl Harbor.” A shift from recrimination to reconciliation began ...

In the early 1900s, Japanese businessman Kokichi Mikimoto ... cultured pearls quickly destroyed Qatar’s pearl-diving industry. The sparsely populated British protectorate was one of the poorest ...

Starting in the 1920s, the introduction of artificial pearls by Japan and the discovery of mineral fuels in Qatar made pearl diving obsolete. This was probably for the best, as pearl diving was a ...

The hermit, World War I veteran Bert Dawson, told Mr Crow that in 1918 a cyclone hit the island and stranded a crew of Japanese pearl divers, some of whom died. The story stayed with Mr Crow and ...