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Hotoriya Hakone

 

NIHON ICHIBAN opened its first brick and mortar shop at lake Ashinoko in Hakone.

The shop offers a selection of products from the online shop allowing customers to experience authentic Japanese craft and design product. The line-up also includes a wide range of ume plum products from NIHON ICHIBAN parent company's Chinriu Honten.

The Hakone shop offers tax free shopping and a free WiFi service.

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NIHON ICHIBAN Member of Jury for GOLDEN TAKUMI Award

Thursday, September 17, 2015 12:16 PM

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Nicolas Soergel - the founder of NIHON ICHIBAN - as been nominated to become member of the team so select the winners of the presitigeous GOLDEN TAKUMI AWARD.

The GOLDEN TAKUMI AWARD has been created by SENDEN KAIGI. This is an organization consisting of members from communication departments of MITSUI Group companies. SENDEN KAIGI is very well known in Japan for its prestigeuous GOLDEN SPORTS AWARD.

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Interview with Nicolas Soergel – Founder of NIHON ICHIBAN

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Interviewed by Sophie Coureau – staff writer at Chinriu Honten Limited

What is NIHON ICHIBAN about and why did you start it?

Japan is a country with a very rich heritage and abundance of great food, craft and design products.  But knowledge about these original products is very low and it also is very hard to purchase authentic products for most foreigners.


 

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JAPAN – A STRANGE COUNTRY

Sunday, November 6, 2011 8:39 PM

JAPAN – A STRANGE COUNTRY

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This is a video about cool and not so cool facts about Japan by graphic designer Kenichi Tanaka. It received a lot of attention by Japanese and foreign media and got translated in many languages such as English, Spanish and Chinese. Tanaka says: “I created this information graphic motion piece as my final thesis project. My objective is to make Japanese people think about what is happening in their own country, and that some aspects of Japanese culture are not that normal. The English narration offers a point of view on Japan that isn’t usually considered by Japanese people, and therefore conveys a ‘foreign’ perspective. I hope audiences will learn about some of the weird aspects of Japanese culture.”


 

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