This year’s Met Gala theme — Rei Kawakubo and Comme des Garçons — got us thinking: There’s such great Japanese-made stuff worth knowing about (much of it that we’ve even written about before), so why not take the occasion to go really big on Japan? From the meticulously crafted to the intuitively designed to the wonderfully weird, welcome to Made in Japan Week on the Strategist.
The Cult Japanese Notebook a Strategist Editor Fell For
All My Co-workers Envy My Japanese Lunch Box
The World’s Blackest Mascara Never Runs Down My Face
My Japanese Brewer Makes Café-Style Coffee at My Desk
These Japanese Eye Drops Give My Face Instant Energy
This Japanese Spork Revolutionized the Way I Slurp Ramen
The Best Facial-Hair Remover Is This Tiny Japanese Razor
The Zojirushi Water Bottle Kept My Vodka-Soda Ice-cold at the Beach
I Found the Best Nail Clipper at the Airport in Japan
The Best Pen Is a Collapsible Japanese Pen
The Best Pot Scrubber Is a Japanese Pot Scrubber
The Best Foot Peel Is Japanese and Called Baby Foot
The Better-Than-Soylent Japanese Meal Replacement
Your Comme des Garçons Starter-Pack
The 13 Best Japanese Drugstore Beauty Products You Can Buy on Amazon
Deal of the Day: A 70 Percent Off Comme des Garçons iPad Case
My Friends Call Me “Babyface” Thanks to This Japanese Exfoliator
This $16 Teapot Combines the Beauty of Japanese Design With Actual Function
There’s a Lot of Y-3 (Adidas’s Line With Yohji Yamamoto) on Sale Right Now
This Japanese Body-Scrub Towel Makes Showering So Much More Pleasant
45 Things Made in Japan That You Can Buy on Amazon
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