Category: Japan now
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(the picture is suqqu summer, please let me know if your interested) Hi Everyone, I regularly talk to Dior. Two weeks ago, my contact said that fewer people were shopping these.days. Few days ago, she told me that the shop was very crowded. Consumers came back. As far as I am concerned, I still go…
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Hi Everyone, I was informed that JP Post cannot send a parcel to China from Japan, due to the decrease of fights between Japan and China. Now I cannot send products to China, excluding Hong Kong and Macau. It seems that we can still send EMS to most countries. The other days, I found that…
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Hi Everyone, The coronavirus is spreading. In Japan, schools have been closed for the last 3 weeks. There are very few events whether big or small, professional baseball was postponed till April, Sumo is now played in front of no audience. I walked around Shibuya today, and the Shibuya Crossing was still crowded. But there…
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Hi Everyone, I was chatting with one of the brush manufacturers from Kumano the other day. He talked about a buyer for a big department store. How she perceives the makeup brush market. The buyer said to him, ‘ many makeups products come with brushes. And most users in Japan are ok with brushes that…
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Hi Everyone, Now in Japan, due to the coronavirus, big events are postponed or called off. Some companies let their employees work at home. Sports events are also postponed or played with no audience. I went to Isetan yesterday, and there are much fewer Chinese tourists than usual, but still a lot of people. I…
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Hi Everyone, Today, I want to talk about the process of buying limited products in Japan. ——- How do I get a limited product? This is what I do. First, I try to reserve a limited product in advance. Usually two weeks or one before a sales date. It is the easiest and I don’t…
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Hi Everyone, I visited the Amplitude shop in Shibuya the other day. Amplitude is a brand that belongs to the THREE group. Both are owned by POLA. Rumiko, which RMK was named after, now create products for Amplitude. I recognized that many ex-RMK employees are now with Amplitude. They are in love with Rumiko. Amplitude…
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Hi Everyone, I received a question if Diorskin face powder and eyeshadow are limited to Japan. When I reserved them at Dior, I asked this question. She is a makeup artist. She thought it was Japan limited, but not 100% sure. She has not been informed. This is what she thinks: Peter Philips, a top makeup artist…
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Hi Everyone, It is said that the Japanese love saving money. Is it true? Japanese like saving money? People want to be assured lifelong or long, to say the least. This ethics ? was taught in the Meiji Era( 1868 – 1912 ) when many countries tried to increase weapons to use in wars. Saving…
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Hi Everyone, I wrote that shop employees wore a mask in my previous newsletter due to the Coronavirus. Now some brands stopped touch-up. They cannot touch the skin of a client. Those are Kanebo and Shiseido groups. So SUQQU, RMK, Lunasol, all in the Kanebo group, and Shiseido, CDP, NARS, IPSA, all in the Shiseido…
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Hi Everyone, Due to the Coronavirus, department store employees now wear masks. The only exception was Lancome. On the subway, it is 50% of passengers that wear masks, I observe. By the way, in Japan, many wear masks even before the Coronavirus. The purpose is to prevent flu, of course, but some women wear them…
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Hi Everyone, I went to a barber yesterday. My purpose to go there is only to have my hair cut short. So I usually go to a 1200 yen hair cut that takes only 10 minutes. A person who cut my hair spent more than 10 minutes and did a good job. She dyed her…
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Hi Everyone, The other day I was asked if Tom Ford still makes brushes with goat hair. I received a similar question for Shu Uemura. They use to make Kolinsky brushes, but don’t make brushes with natural hair anymore. The Shu synthetic brush prices are similar to those of natural hair, which I reckon disappoints…
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Hi Everyone, Do you know the second highest mountain after Mt.Fuji in Japan? (The picture above is Mt. Fuji) Actually, Mt. Fuji is so famous that many Japanese don’t know it. I didn’t know, either. So, I checked Wiki and found out it is Mt. Kita. It is not as beautiful as Mt. Fuji, but…
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Hi Everyone, Thank you for your feedback on this newsletter) I will continue to write more about Japan as well as makeups) I found a new subway station today – for Ginza Line. Ginza Line station in Shibuya was very hard to find but this solved the situation well. By Ginza Line, Shibuya is only two…
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Mikimoto Cosmetics Hi Everyone, I may have been talking more about ‘Japan’ or ‘Japan culture’ than cosmetics or brushes these days. The number of newsletter registration stays about the same. I have one or 2 ‘unsubscribe’s each day and I get the same number of ‘subscribes.’ So I lose my newsletter clients daily. Your feedback…
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Hi Everyone, I talked about ‘Morning’ service the other day. It is a free food service when ordering a drink in the morning. You can pay only for a drink and food comes free. I was told it was invented in the city of Ichinomiya near Nagoya. Their free food is too good there (please see…
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Today is January 5. It is the end of a long vacation for most Japanese. And tomorrow is Monday…. And people feel gloomy… I think many do. It is called Sazae-san Syndrome. Sazae-san サザエさん is a long-lived TV anime program that starts at 6:30 on Sunday night. You see how people feel at that time…
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Hi Everyone, Have you eaten and drunken at Izakaya? It is a very Japanese drinking place, with good food and a reasonable price of a drink. A place to go while you are travelling in Japan. Now they have competitors. Convenience stores. We call them ‘Conveni.’ コンビニ. They are Lawson, Family Mart, Seven Eleven etc.…
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Hi Everyone, Have you heard of ‘Morning’ when you travel to Japan? It is a free service of toast at cafe in the morning. If you order a drink e.g. a cup of coffee, you can get light food with it. Many coffee shops had this service before. But these days, with more coffee chains,…
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