If it weren’t for Kokichi Mikimoto, we might be living in a world without pearls. As a young man growing up in a seaside Japanese village, Mikimoto observed the diminishing supply of natural pearls ...
Each year, Americans remember the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously declared it as "Dec. 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy ...