This year’s Met Gala theme — Rei Kawakubo and Comme des Garçons — got us thinking: There’s such great Japanese-made stuff worth knowing about (much of it that we’ve even written about before), so why ...

This year’s Met Gala theme — Rei Kawakubo and Comme des Garçons — got us thinking: There’s such great Japanese-made stuff worth knowing about (much of it that we’ve even written about before), so why ...

Sure, a plush towel feels soft and warm. But five minutes later you're still wet. Or, at least, not as dry as you could be. There's a better solution, and the Europeans and Japanese have figured it ...