Sayuri Nakamura, 64, is part of a team of five female ama divers that hunt for seafood almost daily in the waters in and around Toba City in Japan. Depending on what the local Ama Association ...

Pearl oysters have historically been found in the Ise-Shima region, and ama are commonly described outside Japan – anachronistically – as “pearl divers”. However, harvesting of natural ...

But she and her fellow divers or “ama” — which roughly translates to “sea woman” — reap the fruits of the sea in a way that has been practised in parts of Japan for thousands of years.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The elderly women sit in a semicircle by a smouldering fire, warming up after diving for shellfish delicacies in the cool waters off ...

Between the 1880s and 1942, about 6,000 Japanese divers worked in the Torres Strait. They were young men mainly from what was then the impoverished Wakayama prefecture in Japan.

Sayuri Nakamura, 64, is part of a team of five female ama divers that hunt for seafood almost daily in the waters in and around Toba City in Japan. Depending on what the local Ama Association ...