2025 Japanese Stationery Elections

Japan just held its 2025 Stationery Elections, and the winners are in! The Tombow Mono Natural Eraser took top marks for sustainability, made from scallop shells and recycled paper. For students, the Kept Kiera offers erasable highlight-and-color cards for easy memorization. The Sakura Komagoma File proved best for organizing and storing everything from memos to stickers. The Sun-Star Akelkey won best tool with its compact, palm-sized box cutter, while the KINGJIM Laseno redefined notebooks with its binder-style design. And for writing tools, the Sun-Star Decot 3 wowed with markers that layer ink like magic.