OSHU, Japan (AP) — Katsunori Suzuki is one of a few craftsmen in Japan still producing cast iron cookware by hand using laborious traditional techniques. The president of the 172-year-old foundry ...

Craftsman Katsunori Suzuki takes molten iron into a bucket before carrying it back to his work section to make a cast iron pot manually at the Oigen foundry in Oshu, northeastern Japan, Thursday, May ...