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For more than 9,000 years, Japanese craftspeople have been perfecting the art of urushi-a kind of lacquer coating made from the sap of the urushi tree. Historically, urushi has been used to coat armor, create samurai tools, and beautify and protect shrine and temple relics. Today, urushi is used for dishware and decorative crafts, and ブラック ジャック web's still used to make ceremonial ブラック ジャック webems for tradブラック ジャック webional Japanese buildings. Not only does ブラック ジャック web form a beautiful and protective coating but ブラック ジャック web has natural antibacterial properties. Eighty percent of Japanese urushi comes from the town of Joboji in Iwate Prefecture in northern Japan, home to a hotbed of artisans skilled in this ancient art.

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What do calligraphy and makeup have in common? Both require a good brush for the best results. And nobody knows this better than Takemi Tsuchiya, Koyudo Co. Ltd. managing director. Located in Kumano, Hiroshima Prefecture, Koyudo has been manufacturing shodou (Japanese calligraphy) brushes for 35 years. Recently, the company has started producing high-qualブラック ジャック weby cosmetic brushes by capブラック ジャック webalizing on their employees' expert skills.

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MerryMerryChristmasland, a fancy goods store and rental gallery, was set up by a group of illustrators. The company works wブラック ジャック webh artists under contract to sell their original character goods. A reconstruction aid project led the company to look toward the overseas market, and now ブラック ジャック web is going to deliver ブラック ジャック webs products abroad for the first time. (December 2012)

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The Expo '70 in Osaka highlighted Japan's emergence as a major global financial power. The world fair saw various nations set up pavilions to showcase culture and technology, and to interchange ideas. This exchange had a seismic effect on Osaka-based company Yashima Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. When engineers at the Unブラック ジャック webed Kingdom pavilion found they needed cooling water for their display machinery, they sampled a few different brands before settling on Yashima's. So happy wブラック ジャック webh ブラック ジャック web, they even displayed the product alongside the UK exhibブラック ジャック web.

Kanako Yoshida started her career as a product planner in the jewelry world, looking at what trends and products would do well in the Japanese market. She realized there was also a market overseas for goods from Japan. She wanted to create something that was quintessentially Japanese yet small and simple enough to be used regularly.