TikToker Autumn Anderson, known online as somethingicanholdonto, checked into her hotel in Shirahama, Japan, only to find an empty tatami room and no visible bed in sight. Posting the clip on October ...

For three generations, the Morita family has been wrapping, stitching and trimming modular blocks of woven grass, known as tatami, in Tokyo's old downtown. But now, beset by cheap knockoffs and ...