Arita, Japan—About 361 years ago, a ship sailed out of Nagasaki, Japan, loaded with ceramics from the kilns or ovens of Arita and Yoshida towns. The ship was most probably headed for Manila, where it unloaded its cargo to middlemen, probably native Visayan traders or even Muslim merchants from Mindanao, who then brought these to

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Tracing the Boljoon-Japan connection