Trivia: I am an unabashed and slightly compulsive stationery snob. Growing in up in たいわん、I've always had easy access to a lot of にほん, たいわん, and かんこくの stationery (ステーショナリー ). It sounds incredibly nitpicky/obnoxious to those who have never used anything other than regular バールペン, but once you've experienced the miracle of a smooth finetip pen, there's just no going back. You write neater, smaller, faster -- the world is just a better place with Pilot and Uni-ball (if you watch Suits on テレビ, これわかります。). While Staples is nice and big, an Asian stationary store looks very, very different. Here's my favorite stationery outlet from home (タイペイです）:
そして、にほんのほんやです! The two くに are pretty much identical in this regard:
Some of these are now available in アメリカ, and pretty much all of them can be found on this lovely website, でも unfortunately at much higher prices than in Asia... じゃあ、now that I've made myself sufficiently homesick, しゅくだいをします...
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