These knives, with "Japanese steel" are made in China. And since Japan hasn't made steel for some time, I suspect the steel is also made in China. Not that this is a bad thing, just that the marketing description is somewhat misleading.I am OK with that. The part that disappointed me was that the blades are dull as a butter knife. I will take them to get sharpened and hopefully they will then perform as advertised.If I had it to do over again, I'd pass on this knife set and this alleged "deal" from Amazon.