This writing investigates three selected questions related to the production of Arita 有田 ceramics wares. The first question is how coal-firing was introduced to Arita as an alternative to wood-firing. The second issue looks at the role Arita porcelain plays in regional history. The third question examines how certain factories in Arita came to produce standardized Western-style bone china wares as well as traditional local designs concurrently. To investigate these questions, the nature of the fieldwork in this project can be summarized into three categories. First, it involves collection of secondary texts and material artifacts in Japan and Hong Kong related to Arita-yaki (Arita-fired porcelain wares). Second, I carried out fieldwork observation studies in Japan. In Japan, I concentrated on galleries, museums and studios that display or make Arita wares. Third, I carried out unstructured interviews with potters, collectors and gallery owners in Arita as well as contemporary potters with experience in Japan on porcelain-making for comparative perspectives. I spent two summers (July to August) in 2011 and 2012 and three weeks in the spring of 2013 for this research in Japan and research work in Hong Kong in the period between 2011 and 2013.