> fountain pens are still used a lot in Japan I ended up getting a Japanese notebook for that reason. I think the one I got may still have been a step up in qu

> fountain pens are still used a lot in Japan I ended up getting a Japanese notebook for that reason. I think the one I got may still have been a step up in quality from what's standard there, but it was a leap up from the generic US notebook I had been trying to use.