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The organizers of the Tokyo International Pen Show (TIPS) have announced the celebration of another event, the Japanese Premium Pen Show , ...

The radical approach to the maddening ink environment of the times: The well-known Pilot 30 ml inkwell has been in the market for over ...

Japanese companies –and not only in the stationery industry-- have a hard time naming their products, and I have pointed at some examples i...

Some readers of my previous text demanded writing samples those unusual nibs. The problem –or the first of them-- is that I do not own all ...

I cannot say for sure that it was Nibmeister Nobuyoshi Nagahara's idea on the first place, but certainly it was him who popularized the ...

In the pen realm many of us tend to forget the historical context to which each pen is born. We like to live in a sort of perfect world wher...

I finished 2019 saying that there had been very little new in Japan in the pen scene, and 2020 starts in a very different way. On the l...