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 ...

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.

Japan stopped using the MMR vaccine seven years ago - virtually the only developed nation to turn its back on the jab. Government health chiefs claim a four-year experiment with it has had serious ...

New York-based novelist Amitav Ghosh recently ordered a fountain pen from an artisanal maker in India. "The last time I looked at his online list ... with German and Japanese pen giants," Mr ...

“Since its beginning, the Maiora company has been licensed to use the Nettuno 1911 trademark, the oldest Italian trademark for fountain pens, registered back in 1911,” Marino explains about ...

Japan’s top female jockey has sensationally ... sight of her crying as she wrote (her retirement notice) with my fountain pen,” he said. He said that Fujita had declared her phone use to ...

Its products are popular among stationery enthusiasts. Fountain pens are not in Mitsubishi Pencil’s product lineup. The company, which dates to 1887, is Japan’s first industrial pencil producer.

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 ...

Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority has granted an operating licence for an off-site ... to the NRA in March 2016 and the regulator approved its safety plans for the facility on 11 November 2020. The ...

A new memorabilia shop promising a ... selling rare imported goods online since it was founded by Norwich native Lauryn Bromberg in 2019. "I always loved Japanese culture, especially their ...

NAGOYA -- Taking in a Meiji era (1868-1912) tower fountain in a park here, one can't help feel cooled at the sight of the cascading water as it creates a fine mist. The fountain comes into view as ...

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 ...