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Happy New Year!.....but we are sorry to be starting the year off with a bit of not so happy news for our overseas customers to whom we ship via FedEx. FedEx has notified us that they will be raising their rates, effective January 1, 2024, by an average of 6.9% over the current rates. Even with the increase, we will continue to use FedEx to ship our items this year, as they are still slightly cheaper than other shipping companies.We have to get this into our system so we won't be raising shipping rates right away, but we will be making...

We can't believe the year is half way over and that Tokyo is about to go into rainy season!To those of you who wish to place orders from our web shop, regarding shipping from June 8th to 15th, due to the relocation of our warehouse and shortage of manpower, we have to temporarily stop shipping during the term, and will resume shipping as usual on June 16.  All orders will be accepted and processed as usual from June 8th to 15th, but the shipping will not be made until June 16th.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and...

Talk about climate change, who's heard of a heat wave in May when we haven't even gone through rainy season...well that's the weather we've been having here in Tokyo and we hope things will cool down soon.   But anyway, amidst the heat, we have some really good news for you!Since the pandemic, shipping costs have been getting higher and higher, and many customers have been contacting us, saying they wish it were cheaper, and now..... We finally are able to realize this!  👏 We signed a deal with Fedex, and starting this month, on a one year basis, they can give us a much...

At last! The Shigeru Mizuki Yokai Skateboard Decks have arrived in our warehouse. Currently, we are inspecting each of them and shipping the preorders out so please wait for their arrival soon. Chances are low that we will do a reproduction so we suggest you purchase them soon while there is still stock. Each comes with certificate.Initially, these were planned to be sold at Mizuki's exhibit at the museum in Angouleme, France last year but the pandemic halted and slowed down the production at the factory. It was a bit of a bumpy ride of more than a year, but...

Finally, our Chris Ware Building Stories puzzles are with Pinceel (🇧🇪  Belgium), our distributor in Belgium. With all that is going on in the world, it took 9 months from Tokyo to reach them. Shop owners in Europe, please contact them for purchase. Shop owners in USA, please contact Last Gasp(🇺🇸) Drawn&Quarterly(🇨🇦) . There is no more stock in our warehouse in Japan. We are now discussing with our printer and shipper in China/HK about the situation there regarding 2nd print, but it's not easy.   So if you want to secure stock of the puzzle for your customers, please do so fast while they last.  Many thanks always for...