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A lot of places actually use Japanese pens and pencils. But those are not commonly sold in Europe or the US. It seems like Japan is pretty bad at exporting thin
by rjzzleep 5y ago
A lot of places actually use Japanese pens and pencils. But those are not commonly sold in Europe or the US. It seems like Japan is pretty bad at exporting things outside of Asia.
That said Montblanc is not a small company anymore it belongs to Richemont SA the third largest luxury goods company in the world. When I wanted to buy a fountain pen I ended up buying a small German brand who's name I forgot. The Montblanc ones were expensive, so-so in the hand and generally not very pleasant to write with IMHO. I do generally like Rotring though.
- tokai 5y ago> Japanese pens and pencils [...] are not commonly sold in Europe Thats not my experience at all.
- derbOac 5y agoNot mine either, in the US.
- lb1lf 5y ago-While you mostly (around here, in the Norwegian boonies at least) will have to go to a specialist shop to get Japanese pencils (I've a box of Mitsubishi Hi-Unis on my desk as I type this), any two-bit shop carries a bunch of Japanese rollerballs (Mostly Pilot and Pentel) and fine-liners (Sakura).
- siver_john 5y agoPentel is probably one of the most common mechanical pencil companies in the US and is Japanese. They are so common in fact I didn't even know this till I was in a Japanese language class in college and my professor asked me where my pencil was made to point out this fact and it came as a surprise.
- themodelplumber 5y agoSimilar here. When I first saw "Penteru" in Japan, I had to stop and figure out who had imported what, but even the way the logo text was rendered in Japanese made it pretty obvious. That was a surprise for sure.
- rjzzleep 5y agoDidn't know that, thanks for correcting.