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「一髪、二姿」(ichikami, nisugata). These are the words that have been passed down since old times in Japan. By taking care of your hair through keeping it shiny, healthy, and smooth, you can bring out the beauty within you. As you may know, the Japanese care for their hair as much as they care for life. Having beautiful hair is life. With hair that is glossy and soft, you can feel beautiful from the inside and out. The line of hair care products, ICHIKAMI, was created with the sincere wish for eve

If you are looking for top beauty products from Japan, then J-SUBCULTURE is your hotspot! In different articles we have introduced a variety of Japanese beauty and cosmetic products, like the LULULUN Beauty Facial Masks Series for your daily facial routine, KANEBO's ALLIE UV Gels for protection in the summer heat, the with flowers and ribbons elegantly decorated CANMAKE Makeup Case Series of IDA LABORATORIES, SHISEIDO's PERFECT W

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

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.