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A manufacturing wholesaler in Sakai will make Japanese knives with your brand name on them. This is not a rumo … 続きを読む

English-language guides to carbon steel knives tell you to build a patina. The standard method is to chop a po … 続きを読む

There is a one-sentence test for this. It has been published in English, by a Sakai manufacturing wholesaler, … 続きを読む

On one Japanese retailer shelf today there is a knife called the Sakai Takayuki 33-Layer VG10 Damascus Gyuto 2 … 続きを読む

In August 2026 two Japanese knife shops accepted me into their affiliate programmes, Hocho-Knife on the twenti … 続きを読む

Updated August 2026. I now have four affiliate partnerships. Two are relevant here: Hocho-Knife, a retailer ba … 続きを読む

Read three English guides to Japanese knives and you will come away with the same map. There are three great b … 続きを読む

If you are about to spend three hundred dollars or more on a Japanese knife, you will hit this question, and y … 続きを読む

Every roundup of Japanese grammar apps answers the same question. Which one has the most grammar points, the c … 続きを読む

For thirteen articles I have been making the same complaint about Japanese learning products. They teach you t … 続きを読む