Editorial Team
Editorial Team
Japanese Knife Lab is run by a small Tokyo-based editorial team. Trust in our reporting starts with being clear about who produces it and how.
Who we are
Japanese Knife Lab editorial team — Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
Japanese Knife Lab is written and edited by a small team based in Tokyo. We publish under the collective Japanese Knife Lab byline rather than individual names. The team handles research and writing, purchasing in Kappabashi, hands-on testing, fact-checking, translation review, and corrections.
Our hands-on work to date consists of two published field tests: the Kappabashi $150 comparison (April 2026 — one knife bought from each of six shops, then cut side by side on the same day across three ingredients) and the Kappabashi sharpening comparison. Every other article is a desk comparison built from published specifications and public sources, and says so at the top of the article.
- Location
- Tokyo
- Publishing since
- Spring 2026 (site launch)
- Source languages
- Japanese
English
Role
Research and writing, Kappabashi purchasing, hands-on testing, fact-checking, translation review, corrections.
Contact
Contributors
Japanese Knife Lab currently has no outside contributors. If any join, they will be listed here with their role.
Translation & multilingual workflow
Japanese Knife Lab publishes in Japanese, English, French, and German. This is how each language version is produced.
Source text
Every article is written by the editorial team in either Japanese or English. That version is the source of record for the other languages.
Translated versions
The editorial team translates the source text into the other languages with AI translation tools, then checks the translation against the original before publication. We do not currently use outside translators or proofreaders. If you spot a mistranslation, please tell us through the contact form; corrections are logged.
Conflict of interest disclosures
The commercial relationships that could bear on our coverage are listed here, with dates.
- • Japanese Knife Lab earns a referral commission on purchases made through links to the Kiwami online store (kiwami.top) and on experience bookings made through Wabunka (wabunka-lux.jp). Each such link is marked as an affiliate link where it appears.
- • Kiwami is one of the six shops in our Kappabashi field test. Affiliate links do not affect rankings: the field-test scores were fixed on the day of the test in April 2026; affiliate tracking for kiwami.top was set up on 22 May 2026; purchase buttons were added on 1 June 2026.
- • Knives in our ranking articles are bought at retail with the editorial team's own budget. We do not accept samples from manufacturers or retailers.
- • If any of the above changes, the change and its date will be added to this section.