After hearing about this $22 tool from professional landscapers and avid home gardeners, we knew we needed to write about it. Meet the hori hori — a multipurpose, slightly concave Japanese weed knife ...

After 22 years in business, Hida Tool of Berkeley has proven its reputation as a source for high-end knives and garden tools. Its wares can be found in some of the Bay Area's best restaurants. But the ...

New Delhi, March 11, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to new research published by Astute Analytica, the Japan tool steel market was valued at US$ 206.30 million in 2024 and is expected to reach US$ ...

MIKI, Japan - Sandpaper has to be the number one consumable in the modern-day furniture shop. But a subset of craftspeople, like Toshio Tokunaga and his four apprentices, don't use any of the ...

Niwaki is a new shop bringing the craftsmanship of Japanese gardening tools and workwear to the streets of London. The Chiltern Street shop is the brainchild of Jake Hobson, a pioneer of Japanese ...

Santa Cruz, Calif. — After working in Japan as a chip designer and later selling EDA software from U.S. companies there, Rick Ader has launched a startup that will try to reverse a 20-year trend by ...

Sometimes referred to as “mother machines,” machine tools are vital to the manufacture of components for everything from cars to domestic appliances. In 2010, Japan was overtaken by China as the world ...