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Spring is always a fertile time in the pen scene in Japan. Spring is the season of the biggest pen events in Tokyo where oftentimes pen make...

More reflections on ink prices in Japan. On my previous Chronicle I mentioned the idea of how 50 ml inkwells might be too big for this ti...

First, the news: Sailor has just launched a new line of inks by the name of Ink Studio. This is a collection of 100 colors, bottled in 2...

The 95th anniversary of Pilot in 2013 saw the resurrection of the Elite pen in pocket size—a very popular model in the 1970s. This contempor...

The Custom 74 is the workhorse of Pilot in the very competitive range of pens around JPY 10000. This is the entry level to more luxurious t...

Official numbers say that the Japanese economy has been stagnated for a very long time. Prices in Japan, for instance, are remarkably stable...

To the traditional eyedropper way of inking pens, Japanese companies added a mechanism to seal the ink deposit when not in use. A mechanism…...