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Japan has a globally renowned stationery industry, with niche items you never knew you needed, like “memorization pens” that make it easier to study and highlighters that leave rulers ink-free.

Now, he manufactures the top-shelf product coveted by anyone with a blackboard, saving it after the original Japanese maker, Hagoromo Stationery, went out of business. Shin, 50, is not the only ...