unlike their fountain pen counterparts, once the nib is washed in water. She also said demand for glass pens took off again as items of cultural value featuring the beauty of Japanese traditional ...

When Kenji Yamamoto opened the first convenience store in Japan 50 years ago, he didn't even know what to stock on the shelves. “Back then, everything was challenging,” he said. The first ...

Take a stroll through any Japanese city—you'll be hard-pressed to go a few blocks without passing a convenience store. The one-stop shops dot streetscapes everywhere. So ubiquitous are konbini ...

Mercato Metropolitano founder and CEO Andrea Rasca, walks to work, eats out 70% of the time and has his clothes ...

Now, she’s launched an online store, JOC Goods. Much of her curated selection of tableware and kitchenware comes from small shops that generally don’t ship outside of Japan, and it’s all ...

I go through phases where I’ll use a rollerball or a fountain pen for a while ... that I didn’t bring my own paper to the fancy pen store, which I would now recommend to anyone.

It’s a debate as old as time and has had the world’s finest intellectuals at war for years – what is better to write with, fountain pens or ballpoint pens? Okay, maybe it’s not that ...

New York-based novelist Amitav Ghosh recently ordered a fountain ... Indian pen, I look for individual craft instead of factory engineering perfection, as I would with German and Japanese pen ...

Daiso, a chain of “100-yen” retail stores featuring discount products from Japan, opened its first Central Valley store at 4043 S. Mooney Blvd. in Visalia. The new 7,020-square-foot store ...

Or brainstorming novel ideas? Put pen to paper with a writing instrument to match the occasion. Using a fountain pen may take you back to your childhood and learning to write with ink for the ...

Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority has granted an operating ... regulator approved its safety plans for the facility on 11 November 2020. The facility will store the highly radioactive fuel ...

Hirotake Yano, the billionaire founder of Japanese discount retailer Daiso ... Daiso is a so-called 100 yen ($0.67; £0.53) store, similar to pound shops. Mr Yano opened his first discount ...