As a young man growing up in a seaside Japanese village ... establish an oyster farm at the Shinmei inlet, now called Mikimoto Pearl Island. He realized that by inserting a particle into the ...

On this episode of Journeys in Japan ... This is where legend Mikimoto Kokichi succeeded in producing the world's first cultured pearls. Today, the entire island is a tourist destination.

Off the coast of Japan’s verdant Saikai National Park, the Kujukushima Islands lie ... Kokichi Mikimoto, the son of a noodle shop owner, invented cultured pearls by mimicking how they form ...