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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

  Who longs to be the beautiful woman, the striking princess that steals the show in all the famous books and movies? Having lovely, breathtaking eyes isn't limited to heroines in fairytales. You can become your own heroine and have stunning eyes thanks to Heroine Cosmetics! This Japanese brand of cosmetics is overwhelmingly popular. With these cosmetics, you can keep up your beauty 24/7 for reasonable prices! Here at J-Subculture, we'll introduce you to some of their mascaras, fals

Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day This is the title of an anime television series produced by A-1 Pictures which was aired in 2011. It was directed by Tatsuyuki Nagai and an anime film of the series was release in 2013. Its genre can be divided into drama, supernatural, romance, and tragedy. This is a story about a group of six childhood friends who drift apart after one of the friends called "Menma" dies in an accident. Through the reappearance of Menma as a ghost visiting one of t

Kuretake, founded in 1902, focuses on sumi-e inks for traditional brush calligraphy, pens and brush pens. Nowadays this modern Japanese company continues producing traditional ink. Their brush pens brushes are made with high quality hair making them some of the best pen brushes of the Japanese stationery, and today we want to introduce you one of their most colorful and best products, Kuretake Zig Letter Pens!  This stylish pen brings you the chance to pick your favorite pen body colo

Surprisingly, you can protect nib from dry out by only one hand. Actually, this is big weak point of fountain pen. Nib is very weak to dry. For protecting from dry out, it is needed to write continuously. But normally president's speech is long. Let's knock, knock ! Don't forget to knock, even if you are nominated for members of cabinet. By the way, Capless have more than 50 years history. However the color is not turned into sepia. In the long history, design has been changed several times. So,

  Detective Conan, or Case Closed is a highly popular manga/anime series known by practically any Japanese person out there, fan or not. It is a detective series about a young, high school detective named Jimmy Kudo (in the English series). Jimmy later adopts the name "Conan Edogawa" to protect his identity after transforming into his younger self, hence "Detective Conan." The realistic, action packed mystery series of Case Closed will always keep you begging for more. T

  This pen is revolutionary. This is the pen of your dreams. Here at J-Subculture, we have the pen of the future: Pilot Frixion Ball Slim Pens! The most slender of all the pens from the Pilot Frixion series, Frixion Slim Ball Pens boast of a tip the size of 0.38 mm! Their sleek, slim design allows you to keep as many as you'd like freely in your bags. You can have all the colors of the rainbow without breaking your pencil case. Isn't that fantastic? What is more, since its tip is so small,

What is collagen? Collagen is the most common protein that is produced in the human body. Collagen has various roles to benefit the body, but the most visible role is its power over our skin. Collagen makes the mold of our skin and strengthens it while helping replace and restore dead skin cells. When we're young, the natural process of producing collagen is consistent. However, as we age, the production of collagen in our bodies declines, making our skin sag and leading a quicker path to wrinkl

Takara Tomy is a well known Japanese Toy manufacturer created from the merge of Takara and Tomy. This company´s toys are easy to find in Japan´s toy shops, some of the best known franchises and hit products like Microman, Battle Beasts, Beyblade, B-Daman or Transformers are from Takara Tomy.   The company also owns the rights for one of the most profitable franchises ever, Pokemon! Few weeks ago we introduced you the Pokemon Moncolle collection a stunning collection of Pokemon v

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 undifferentiated by marking or color. The bo