Maruka's Yutanpo Ace 2.5L is a galvanized-steel hot-water bottle from a country that has long warmed the bed rather than the bedroom, and it still goes straight onto a gas burner or IH cooktop to r...

Japan's labor ministry counts the same-level fall as the country's most common workplace injury every year, and one answer to it came from an Okayama maker that started with jika-tabi: the Hyper V ...

Mitsubishi Pencil's Kuru Toga turns the lead a little with every stroke so that, the maker says, the point wears to a cone rather than at a slant. The lineup that grew from the 2008 original runs f...

VESSEL's electric ball-grip drivers run a screw in with a small motor and leave the final turn to the hand: the 220USB-S1 for speed (1200 rpm no-load), the 220USB-P1 for its three modes, the 220USB...

WAFÚÚ ships Japan-market Makita saws and Makita tipped saw blades from Japan, from the 165 mm LS610D slide miter saw to 125 mm dust-collecting circular saws and Samehada blades. Makita's own figure...

The SEIKO Swimming Master SVAS009 is Seiko's swimming and rowing stopwatch: split, lap and total on three rows, 300 laps in memory, and a stroke-rate mode that reads three strokes. Seiko rates it 1...