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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

It's not the first time we talk about Japan's favorite eraser, Tombow’s Mono eraser. We already introduced you to the fantastic Tombow Mono One eraser, an extremely compact, convenient, and refillable Tombow Mono eraser. This time we bring you something even better, the super useful Tombow Mono Zero Eraser! Imagine that you combine a Tombow Mono standard eraser and a mechanical pencil; that’s exactly what the Tombow Mono Zero is. This is probably the world’s thinne

Furikake is a Japanese topping which usually is a mixture of dried tuna, sesame seeds, salt, sliced or seasoned seaweed, etc. Furikake is mainly used to sprinkle over steamed rice and noodles, but it is also used for salads, soups, pasta, and sushi rolls. Here it goes a brief history… Around 1912, a pharmacist called Mr. Suekichi Yoshimaru of Futaba, came up with the idea to make a product with ground fish bones to compensate for a lack of calcium in the Japane