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Some store on the web. I recognized the characters for tamahagane and snagged it. I do remember that the razor came wrapped in a japanese newspaper, so maybe Japan or Okinawa. It's got what...

Ah. So OP missed the 1000-shave razor on both style and substance :w

I would have thought that being in Japan you would have much better access to these western tamahagane razors than we would. ...

Interesting. I thought the 1000 shave razor was a japanese style one. I've got a Tamahagane western style razor from Iwasaki or one of his students, but was never interested in the japanese style...