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Eboya , the pen brand of Nikko Ebonite, shifted gears in 2016 . Lathe master Noritoshi Kanesaki left the company and the production moved to...

The nomikomi system, we saw previously , is a thing of the past—the 1930s—and those old inkwells might not be used again. But wh...

One of the most original filling systems ever invented was the easy-drinking or nomikomi system . Pilot created it in the mid 1930s and ...

Early Pilot pens, in those first 10 or 15 years of the brand, employed a number of filling systems. On these pages we have seen a number of ...

In 2016, Eboya stopped the production of Japanese eyedropper pens. These pens were always more expensive that the equivalent versions with c...

The so-called Japanese eyedropper system – inki-dome shiki (インキ止め式) in Japanese— was in fact invented by Onoto in the beginning of the 20th...

The newest pen in the Japanese market is the Platinum Procyon, released in July 2018. Not so long ago I spoke about the latest trends in t...

The Pilot 65 –or Custom 65 as some called it—is a model I have mentioned a lot on these pages, but I have never described it in detail. Give...