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Pokemon Shirts Shopping Guide: How to order and buy Pokemon Shirts from Original Stitch

When custom dress shirt retailer Original Stitch teamed up with The Pokemon Company to produce fully-customizable shirts using beautifully detailed Pokemon fabrics, Poke-fans went wild! The San Francisco-based fashion startup teamed up with Japanese illustrators to design 151 original fabrics based on the original Pokemon found in the Kanto region.

Original Stitch shirts are all made to order in Japan and are fully customizable with hundreds of ways to make the shirt your own! You can opt for a design with the Pokemon pattern covering the entire shirt, or you can experiment with fabrics on the chest, cuffs, collar, and pocket of the shirt. When designing your shirt, you aren’t limited to a single pattern either – if you want, you can create a shirt with up to seven different fabrics of your Poke-pals! And the customization doesn’t end there – with two lines for both men and women, you can choose from multiple cuts, collar options, and sleeve lengths to create a shirt that would make any Poke-fan jealous.

Despite being a US-based company, Original Stitch is currently not shipping these Pokemon shirts outside of Japan. That means the only way to get your hands on one of these amazing shirts is to use a forwarding service or a proxy shopping service. That’s where FROM JAPAN comes in. Our proxy shopping service can help you get your paws on these shirts fit for a Pokemon Champion. Read on for our in-depth guide on how to design and order your very own custom Pokemon shirt!

Original Stitch now provides shipping to the following countries: Japan, United States, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, India, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, Italy, France, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

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Surugaya Shopping Guide: How to buy from Surugaya

As of May 2022, our Surugaya proxy shopping service has resumed.

What is Surugaya?

Surugaya is a top Japanese retailer offering a wealth of games, books, DVDs, CDs, trading cards, figures, collectibles, and much more. They stock both new and pre-owned products sourced from across Japan, meaning it is one of the best places to shop for both new releases and rare items on your otaku wishlist. Navigating and purchasing on Surugaya can be a little difficult if you don’t understand Japanese, so we’ve decided to create this guide for the would-be Surugaya shopper. We will show you how to search for items and even how to order on Surugaya without needing a Japanese address or credit card with FROM JAPAN’s proxy service!

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Bootleg Figures Found Out! How to Avoid Fake Figures

After months of browsing the Internet, you finally hunt down that special (and rare) figurine that you’ve been tracking for…

Japanese Clothing and Shoe Sizing Guide: Important for Online shopping

If coming from Western countries, Japanese clothing sizes can be perplexing. While a girl may usually wear a size small in the U.S. (a size 4/UK size 8), in Japan they wear a large! And “one-size” (as in one-size-fits-all) almost never fits a Western girl, unless it’s a hat of course! While this can be a blow to the ego, at the end of the day it’s not the number on the tag that matters, but how you look and feel while wearing the clothes.

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Women’s Sizing
Men’s Sizing
Children’s Sizing

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Importing Japanese Video Games for PlayStation Consoles and more!

Before the Internet, buying video games was simple. You saw what your local shop had in stock and chose a game from that selection and that was it. But now thanks to the internet, we hear of games from other countries that you would’ve never seen in your local shop. Japan has a wealth of games that are destined to never be released overseas. And while getting your hands on a copy of the newest release from your favorite series can be problematic due to the language barrier, importing Japanese video games doesn’t need to be a hassle and we’re here to help!

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Why Is Gunpla So Addictive?

Gunpla: Master Grade RX-78-2 Ver. Ka. — Master Grade RX-78-2 Ver. Ka.

Gunpla is a satisfying and quickly addictive hobby but can be overwhelming to anyone trying to get started. FROM JAPAN is here to give you a closer look at the popular series that make up the huge selection of Gundam model kits.
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