
You've stored a batch of curry or meat sauce in a plastic container, and a few days later you go to wash it. No matter how many times you scrub it with...

When you buy shoes—or pick out an insole—do you tend to choose the one that feels "soft and pleasant" the moment you touch it?

That ballpoint pen of unknown make sitting in your office supply cabinet. Or that plastic pen you got as a freebie.

You're in the middle of preparing materials for a meeting when you hear that hollow "click" of an empty stapler. You're out of staples.

Even when you use a store-bought pasta sauce, or make a tomato sauce exactly to recipe, something feels off. The noodles slip around without clinging to...

Written by Jin Fujisaki / After a refreshing shower, do you find yourself vigorously rubbing your wet body with a bath towel?

You walk into a stylish café, but there's no basket for your belongings. At the cramped counter of an izakaya, your bag keeps bumping into the chair next...

It was sunny in the morning, but a sudden downpour hits in the evening. Reluctantly, you dash into a convenience store and buy a plastic umbrella for 600 yen.

Look at all those ponzu bottles lining the supermarket shelves. "They're all just sour soy sauce anyway, right?" If that's what you're thinking as you toss...

You wake up in the morning to find your hair tangled like a bird's nest from rubbing against the pillow. You force a comb through it...

After a bath every day. You use a big bath towel to dry off, it takes over the laundry basket, and then it hogs space on the drying rack.

Carrots, daikon radish, potatoes. "Peeling" is an unavoidable task when cooking. If you've been gripping your peeler hard and pulling with all your might...