Self Edge founder Kiya Babzani helped introduce Japanese denim to America. These are the jeans he’s rocking right now.

Jeans enthusiasts and purists around the world love Japanese denim. Many treat its creation as an art form. The mills that produce this high-grade cotton fabric in Japan are renowned for their ...

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Made with Japan recently paid a visit to the headquarters of Japan Blue Group, the makers and parent company of Momotaro Jeans. Located in Kojima, a small town in Okayama considered to be the mecca of ...

Some of the best jeans in the world are crafted in Kojima, a seaside district of Kurashiki, Okayama province. Widely known as Japan’s “denim capital,” Kojima has long been the textile mecca of the ...

When Mikiharu Tsujita launched Full Count in 1992, he did so with a singular, almost romantic ambition: to re-create the jeans he revered most—the Levi’s 501s of the 1940s and ’50s, the bedrock of ...

Jeans enthusiasts and purists around the world love Japanese denim. Many treat its creation as an art form. The mills that produce this high-grade cotton fabric in Japan are renowned for their ...