KAWARAMACHI, Japan (AP) — Time seems to stop here. Women sit in a small circle, quietly, painstakingly stitching patterns on balls the size of an orange, a stitch at a time. At the center of the ...

When winter is over, children who have been stuck indoors rush out to play ball games. Long ago, court nobles were known to pass the time with beautifully embroidered temari hand balls. Temari were ...