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The 16th edition of the Madrid Pen Show finished last Sunday and I want to offer some personal reflections on the event. The bare num...

NOTE (July 8th, 2023): There are some inaccuracies on this text: although the business Mannenhitsu-no Yamada strated in the early 1930s, th...

In 1973, Platinum released a series of pens called Amazonas. Their selling point was that they were coated with leather of the star-fingered...

I said on my previous Chronicle that I was attending the Madrid Pen Show in Spain. However, for those located in East Asia there is a great ...

November comes and I start my migration. As was the case in the last 11 years, I will attend the Madrid Pen Show. It will be celebrated –...

These two bottles cost the same—about JPY 2500. The one on the left contains 500 ml of whisky. To produce it the company –Nikka on t...

This past weekend, the second edition of the Tokyo International Pen Show (TIPS) took place in the Ward of Taito in Tokyo. I attended it an...