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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 sin

  The beautiful rose helps us to express our love to someone close to us. Roses represent deep love, elegance, and beauty. Besides poetic significance, roses also offer amazing benefits to our health. While roses are believed to relieve tension and stress through its entrancing aroma, they also help balance and smoothen our skin, while also being able to bring color to our lips and cheeks. How can we truly enjoy these wonderful benefits from roses without having to go through the process of

PILOT is one of the spearheads in the Japanese stationery industry and its DR. GRIP 4+1 one of the most complete writing utensil there is. Not only does it have a brilliant design combining tasteful colors and metal parts, the pen as much more to offer with many unique features. In Japan the pen made itself a name as being a writing instrument that even one writes a lot, the hand won't get tired easily. It is convenient to handle as the shaft lies comfortably in the writing hand. Furthermore, th

Washi paper was first made in Japan, it's usually made using fibers from the bark of an specific Japanese tree called "gampi", the paper mulberry or the "Mitsumata" bush. It can be also made using other materials like wheat, hemp, bamboo or rice, and his name means "Japanese paper", this term is used to describe the paper made by hand.  This paper is used for making the Washi Tapes, they're cute, they're Japanese and they're perfect for decor or packaging. Due

 Mandom's product line, GATSBY, provides a wide selection of grooming products specifically for men. GATSBY products provide total support for men who want to and heighten/improve their hair, skin, and body odor. GATSBY products have been sold in Japan since 1978 by Mandom Corporation. Its products don't follow the trends for what is cool and stylish for men--they set the trends! GATSBY is the main product created and sold by Mandom Corporation. Its mission is, "to support me

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 Japanese diet. Small fish w

  Midori MD Notebooks are for lovers of the best notebooks the world has to offer, and these notebooks happen to be the best. The "MD" stands for "minimum design." These notebooks are simple, aesthetic, and are practically made to suit true writers out there. Why use anything lower than the high quality you deserve?  With its soft pages, you can open these notebooks with ease, keeping them in place so you can continue to write smoothly. The balance of white brings

Pentel is one of our favorite Japanese stationery goods company, their products design and manufacture follows the most strict quality control standards. Pentel's designs are characterized by that peculiar Japanese way of thinking, and their Pentel Multi 8 multi pen is a shining example of this. Available in two different versions, the Pentel Multi 8 lead holder and the Pentel Multi 8 Ballpoint and Lead Holder. The definitive multi pen!   The Pentel Multi 8 lead holder is able to hold 8 dif

  WELCOME TO THE NANOBLOCK WORLD OF ANIMALS! Each animal is from the Nanoblock mini collection series. These nanoblocks are so tiny. At first, they seem unconnected, but when you put them together, they form an adorable animal! They're so small that they can fit in the palm of your hand! Just looking at them makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside. They make great decorations too! And they're great for your personal collection. If you look very closely, you

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 use