Environmentally friendly and highly durable bagworm silk is set to be used in a commercial application for the first time, ...

At the time, raw silk became the country's largest export, as the silk industries in France and Italy had been hit by an epidemic of silkworm disease. At one point, Japan was the world's biggest ...

In 2022, as part of a pilot project to check viability of sericulture, the state forest department had provided training and ...

Masako is carrying on a tradition with a thread said to date back 15 centuries, the Japanese imperial family's cultivation of silkworms to produce exquisite silk. With the start of the Reiwa Era ...