Retro Showa Japan
The Showa era ran from 1926 to 1989, but its design sensibility never really went anywhere. These are the objects that defined Japanese everyday life for decades: the paste pot on every school desk, the candy tin passed around on long train rides, the colored pencils in the familiar paper-wrapped sets. Some of these products have barely changed since they were introduced. That's not nostalgia for its own sake. It's just that they were right the first time.
Browse our Made in Japan collection for more everyday objects still being made in Japan today.
