Here’s our guide to the best-looking and smoothest writing pens, whether it’s for jotting ... Established in 1919 by Syunchi Nakata, the Japanese company Platinum Pen Co specialises in meticulously ...

Many of his clients are celebrities both in and outside Japan. One of them ... Seeing demand for fountain pens shrink in the commercial market around the mid-1980s, Yamamoto’s father, now ...

She also said demand for glass pens took off again as items of cultural value featuring the beauty of Japanese traditional craftsmanship. The pens are made manually, one at a time.