The Japan Book Edit
SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER BOX
SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER BOX
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What's inside
Three things, chosen to be read, written with, and kept.
Ishigami is a brilliant, unassuming maths teacher who has quietly loved his neighbour Yasuko for years, from a careful distance. When her abusive ex-husband shows up at her door and the confrontation turns fatal, Ishigami doesn't offer comfort — he offers a plan, worked out with the same cold precision he'd bring to an equation, built to make the problem disappear entirely.
The case lands with his old university rival, physicist Yukawa, brought in precisely because the alibi is airtight and the logic behind it disturbingly elegant. As the two former classmates circle each other, the investigation stops being about finding a flaw in the plan and becomes something harder: whether Yukawa can bring himself to unravel a friend's masterpiece.
Devotion, sacrifice, and the exact point where love tips into obsession — this is the book most readers point to first when they explain why Higashino towers over Japanese crime fiction, and a mystery you'll want to start over the moment you finish it, just to see how quietly the trick was hiding in plain sight.
Every box includes one uni Jetstream 4&1 — but which colour you get is part of the fun. Bordeaux Red, Light Pink, or Navy is chosen at random for each subscriber, so you won't know yours until you open the box.
If you've spent any time in a Japanese stationery shop, you've met a Jetstream — it's the pen most Japanese office workers reach for without thinking twice. The ink is engineered to glide with almost no friction and dry the instant it touches paper, so nothing smudges, even if you write left-handed. This edition is the 4&1: four ink colours and a mechanical pencil, all in one barrel, all in an extra-fine 0.5mm point — precise enough for the kind of careful, methodical notes a certain maths teacher might have kept.
- Four ink colours in one pen
- Plus a 0.5mm mechanical pencil
- Extra-fine 0.5mm ball point
- Smooth, low-friction Jetstream ink
- One-click colour switching
- Compact click-action design
| Function | 4-colour ballpoint (black / red / blue / green) + mechanical pencil |
| Point size | 0.5mm (ball and pencil) |
| Colours | Bordeaux Red, Light Pink, or Navy — one sent at random |
One of Japan's oldest stationery makers, Mitsubishi Pencil developed the low-friction Jetstream ink in 2006 — it became so popular in Japanese offices and schools that it's now one of the best-selling pens in the country's history, despite barely being known outside Japan.
Every edition comes with a small tri-fold flyer I design myself — this time covering why we chose this book, a small tribute to Keigo Higashino, and a few Japanese phrases worth knowing, drawn from the world of mystery and deduction. It's not a generic insert — I design it myself, start to finish, so it feels like something made specifically for this edition rather than something pulled off a template.
Orders close 31 October
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