When the 80-year-old Japanese company that produces Hagoromo Fulltouch chalk went out of business this past spring, mathematicians took to social media to pay their respects and their wallets to buy ...

PARIS — When the gymnastics world championships went to Tokyo in 2011, German gymnast Fabian Hambuechen and his father, Wolfgang, saw it as a rare opportunity to stock up. They cut out the interior ...

As interactive whiteboards and iPads take over classrooms across the world, it is understandable that companies relying on a demand for blackboard chalk might struggle. What is perhaps less ...

The bright-white sticks drop one by one into the whir and clatter of a weatherworn piece of machinery, where they are stamped with the most celebrated name in chalk: Hagoromo. The early stages of the ...

Why spend all your time at school studying? Especially when you can spend your time drawing on blackboards. Last year, Kotaku first covered three Japanese high school ...