DEAR HELAINE AND JOE: Could you please tell me about this teapot? It is brown with floral decoration and is marked with "MG" surrounded by "Made in Occupied Japan" in a circle. Thank you. - S. L., ...

I’ve just returned from two weeks touring the art and temples of Japan’s Inland Sea. We visited Osaka, Okayama, Takamatsu, Shikoku and the incredible “Art Island” of Naoshima, where the Chichu Museum ...

Gen. Douglas MacArthur had no idea what he was giving birth to in 1945, when he set up headquarters in Tokyo after World War II and was entrusted with governing the defeated nation. His mission: to ...

Q — I recently found a pair of figural lamps in my basement. One consists of a peasant girl and the other a peasant boy. The girl appears to be dancing, the boy is playing a horn. The bottom of each ...