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Established in Japan in 1950, Midori is a Design Stationery brand of international repute - famous and admired for the smoothness of its MD paper, the quality of its brass products and its beautiful leather traveller's notebook. BRASS, an alloy of copper and zinc, has its own adorable gloss, and has been used in architecture, furniture and hardware, art and craftworks since antiquity. Over the years, its surface oxidizes to become a deep, tender color hue worthy of long appreciation.

Japanese stationery companies have the capacity to take those well-known stationery goods, and transform them without modifying their usability. They’re capable to create ordinary stationery goods which seem to be totally new by just adding little modifications to the key idea, developing brand-new products that everyone know how to use. Midori is one of those Japanese stationery bands who focus their developments efforts towards this idea, brand new well-known useful stationery products.

To those with a great memory, you probably remember that we've introduced to you before a series of adorable animal mini clips by the Japanese stationery company. (Interested in this product? click the following link for details: www.j-subculture.com/guides/sub/623). Today at J-Subculture, we'd like to introduce you to a different adorable series from Midori. They're Midori Mini Magnets! Midori's stationery game is going on strong with these perfectly tiny and practical magnets! Their ani

Shogi, also known as Japanese chess, is a two-player strategy board game. Its earliest predecessor of the game, chaturanga, originated in India in the 6th century was brought to Japan where it spawned a number of variants. Two players, Sente (Black; more literally, person with the first move) and Gote (White; person with the second move), play on a board composed of rectangles in a grid of 9 ranks (rows) by 9 files (columns). The rectangles are undifferenti