how many Japanese knife manufacturers?

[Gary007]

Any nice Japanese made folders/manufacturers out there?

 

[Quiet Storm]

Seki - they mainly offer gentleman folders.

 

[lambertiana]

Moki makes first-rate gents folders. The new William Henry Spire is made by Moki.

 

[TorzJohnson]

Hattori. I've been eyeing the Ebony 300 for a while, one day I'll pull the trigger on it.

 

[Alvin Hom]

Hattori. I've been eyeing the Ebony 300 for a while, one day I'll pull the trigger on it.

Will you post their website url? Thanks!

 

[HoB]

Mmmh, in the kitchen knife department I could name more japanese manufactures than western, especially when it comes to absolute supreme quality. I would recommend the www.bladegallery.com kitchen knife cataloge. In particular:
Shigafusa
Hattori
Ryusen
Hon Kasumi
Masahiro
Shun
Fujitora
Kyocera
Global
This represents somewhat of a decending order of quality which I am not willing to defend . However, Zwilling, Wuesthof...etc. I would rate below any of the ones above. Especially with Shun upwards it really takes off, IMHO (unfortunately price wise, too). Btw. Hattori is heir to the Mashiro empire and apparently decided to lauch his own line of knives focussing on the the absolute top of the line. His Cowry X/ damascus blades for which he is famous go for a pretty mind-boogling price.

The URL for Seki cut and Hattori hunters is: www.sekidirect.com

 

[tonyccw]

There's Kai, who owns Kershaw.

Al Mar and Spyderco, who has many of their knives made in Japan.

 

[TorzJohnson]

Will you post their website url? Thanks!

You can get them from Seki Direct or Worldknives. Plenty of other good knives on both sites as well.