The lights are always on at Iwakō, a maker of novelty erasers in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture. On the firm’s production floor 15 machines whir day and night cranking out miniature renderings of zoo ...
The Pepto Bismol pink eraser is an icon, and for good reason. Early erasers were made in part of pumice, a ruddy, Italian volcanic ash that helped the eraser wipe away pigment. So an eraser’s pink ...