Come the end of the year in Japan, there’s a rush on cleaning services, straw decorations and boxed osechi ryōri (traditional New Year’s cuisine). But over the past few years, a new item has ...

It was named after a traditional Japanese word "mahoroba," which means utopia. When finished notebooks ... Motomura noted that designs developed out of consideration to specific groups of people ...

the company is considering presenting a notebook to the Samurai Blue coach. The company said it has yet to contact the Japan Football Association about its proposal, and the design of the gift has ...