Earlier this year, a special edition of Japan's PLUS Stationery’s "Air-in" range of erasers was released that slowly revealed an image of Mt Fuji, perhaps the most iconic symbol of Japan. The limited ...

Just when you thought erasers couldn't get any cuter than a transforming Mt. Fuji eraser, Japanese creative designer Yu (@yuu99jp7) may have set a new standard. Yu created another type of ...

The lights are always on at Iwakō, a maker of novelty erasers in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture. On the firm’s production floor 15 machines whir day and night cranking out miniature renderings of zoo ...

To many, Japan seems like a technological wonderland that’s at least a couple of decades ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to innovation. That even applies to something as seemingly mundane ...

The Pepto Bismol pink eraser is an icon, and for good reason. Early erasers were made in part of pumice, a ruddy, Italian volcanic ash that helped the eraser wipe away pigment. So an eraser’s pink ...