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Quote，“Attending a recent show in Vegas, we saw many Akoya pearls that were in the 6-7.5mm range that were claimed to be "Japanese" Akoya. The quality looked just fine, so I was puzzled why they would feel the need to claim that they were 100% "japanese" akoya, when we knew they had been cultured and harvested in china.”

In history of Akoya culturing in the world, Japanese Mikimoto was the pioneer of succeeding in cultivating oyster by inserting bead into oysters’ tissue and growing up, cultured pearls born similar to natural pearls..
Japanese pearl farmers and manufacturers had set up their good reputation in the world for a couple of decades. However, in 1970s China’s intelligent talents began to be involved with culturing Akoya pearls in large scale. Chinese government has attached great importance to stimulate pearling industry. In 1990s, in China, the total harvest of cultured Akoya pearls exceeds that of Japan. Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan are culturing Akoya pearls areas.
With the pollution of the waters in Japanese sea, expensive labor and cost of operation, Japanese Akoya are forced to surrender to China’s Akoya. But Japanese jewelers are bold to survive and never shrink by taking advantage of their established namebrand “ Product of Japan” . Undoubtedly, they have to claim China’s Akoya pearls as Japanese ones.
At present, China lacks of competent designers for jewelry, China’s jewelers neglect jewelry design and innovations of pearling industry.
An Akoya Pearl Guild is dying to found in China.
Vigor He


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