The Japan External Trade Organization, or JETRO, has established itself at a variety of tradeshows here in the States, and they had doubled their presence at the International Home + Housewares Show, with a second pavilion in the Clean + Contain section to complement their row of booths in Dine + Design (Marna, which we covered last year, was in the former section this time around). Similarly, the number of exhibitors from the tsunami-ravaged Tohuku region jumped from five to 11, several of which were exhibiting in the U.S. for the first time.
Mio Kawada, Executive Director of JETRO, New York, was kind enough to give us a quick tour of the highlights from the Land of the Rising Sun.
Fukushima's Kodai Sangyo offers products for the kitchen and bath in hinoki, or Japanese Cypress
Nagatani-En of Iga-City specializes in traditional earthenware pottery, executed in contemporary design language. It is said that almost every household in Japan owns a donabe
Like their Western counterparts, Iga-yaki donabe pots have high heat capacity
The mushinabe can also be used as a steamer
Kotodo offers tin tea canisters in a choice of thousands of different Washi paper varieties...
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