At his store in Tokyo's ritzy Ginza district, Hajime Sasaki displays a disparate array of wares, from chopsticks to Buddha statues -- including many made of ivory. International trade in elephant ...

Elephant ivory has long been used worldwide to make a host of items from jewelry, piano keys and billiard balls to art and personal seals. Japan, which used ivory to make hanko (personal seals), was ...

Ivory products seized by Chinese customs after they were illegally exported from Japan are seen at Shijiazhuang Customs in Hebei province, China, in this photo provided by the nongovernmental ...

The Japanese government should place a tax of 100% or more on the sale of ivory goods. The revenue collected from the tax would go to pay for elephant conservation in Africa. Japanese businesses could ...

International trade in elephant ivory is illegal, but Japan hosts one of the world's largest remaining legal domestic markets for the product, which can only be bought and sold within its borders. It ...

An unintentional dispute has broken out between two groups who have precisely the same aim. The foreign group has demanded a total ban on ivory. Under its plan, all stocks would be seized, all shops ...

In some countries, the idea of cherishing anything made of ivory has become repugnant, especially given that an elephant had to die — usually at the hands of poachers — before any elaborate carving of ...

Ivory, historically prized for carvings and jewelry, is now central to ethical debates due to poaching and endangered species. Derived from animal tusks and teeth, it's denser and smoother than bone, ...

In this Jan. 13, 2017 photo, Wong Lai-ngan carves a mammoth tusk at the Lise Carving and Jewellrey workshop in Hong Kong. The decline of the city's once-flourishing ivory business is set to accelerate ...

TOKYO -- Japan is under mounting criticism that its domestic market for ivory products is creating a weak link in the international ban. Many ivory smugglers purchase products in Japan, where domestic ...

In October, a new documentary produced by Leonardo DiCaprio premiered on Netflix. "The Ivory Game" is a dramatic study of the illegal trade in elephant tusks that includes conservationists battling ...