Ancient Japanese pots at British Museum

Ancient Japanese pots at British Museum

LONDON, Britain - Tamio Mori (R), mayor of Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, and Tatsuo Kobayashi, a professor emeritus at Kokugakuin University, attend a ceremony to mark the exhibition of two ancient pots dating from Japan's Jomon era at the British Museum in London on Oct. 4, 2012. The pots are being exhibited for the first time outside Japan.

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