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In addition to the usual rulings (lined and squared) for short messages, we offer these notepads in A5 format: displaying a checklist or a weekly planner. The notepads help to write down to-dos clearly and to plan your timeline of tasks for the week. If necessary, you can hand them to the people involved or monitor the completion of individual jobs by checking the boxes. The strong cardboard backing of the notepads holds the paper at the top like a clamp and fixes the pages so firmly that they are torn out at the perforation (and not at the adhesive binding) when torn off.

The outstanding characteristics and undisputed extraordinarily high quality of Japanese stationery have partly to do with the fact that Japanese writing is difficult to mechanise on a typewriter. The first typewriters were introduced at the beginning of the last century. In addition to Japanese syllable writing the Chinese characters called “Kanji” are common in Japan. The Kanji prove to be exceptionally difficult to reproduce. Until the introduction of the personal computer in the office, it was customary therefore to write business correspondence by hand, and one used the best stationery available to leave a good impression. The passion for extraordinary stationery has survived in Japan even if it is not used for official correspondence anymore. For daily notes, a paper like the lined note paper offered here is put to use. It‘s thread-sewn and features a spine reinforced with black and gold embossed spine tape. An obscure, if amusing side remark: By printing “containing best-ruled foolscap” the Japanese manufacturer came a cropper. Because none of these notebooks is in foolscap, the traditional Anglo-Saxon paper format somewhat larger than DIN A4.