My souvenir from Japan was a bunch of stationery items.

Incredibly high quality and incredibly cheap, even considered the low value of the yen.

It really makes you think when a bottle of ink is sold for £40 in the UK, and in Japan is just 2,200 yen, which is about £9 !!!

I mean, I get the import taxes and shit, but come on, somebody gotta be robbing us here.

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Some other examples?

A Pilot Prera fountain pen sells for £50 here, and it's about 4,100 yen there, which is £19.

Penco notebooks were sold literally everywhere in Tokyo and Kyoto for dirt cheap, from 550 to 880 yen.
I've just checked the small B7 I've got for £2.57 is sold for £16 on Amazon UK!!!

Fucking hipsters.

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