The salt was once used as a medicine to treat ... But the long and dangerous process of making it has pushed people away from the craft. More from Still Standing It takes a full day working ...

a major steelmaker, Akolkar is working to show the process can work efficiently enough to be economically competitive with conventional blast furnaces. Molten-salt electrolysis is also a more ...

In the humble “okagesama” thank-you spirit of the Japanese, at Shiogama, a sacred ritual to thank Shiotsuchi-no-Oji-no-Kami for bestowing salt-making know-how is held every year. Okama Shrine ...