-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-Uni

-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).