A handful of our staff members fell in love with this heartbreaking backpack from renowned Japanese brand Porter. We think this is the perfect little thing to bring on a summer getaway to Nanki Shirahama, just two hours away from Osaka. One should also bring the following: several Olsen Olsen candy bars (they’re from Iceland, and they’re amazing – anything with sugar, wheat flour, cocoa butter and licorice gets our approval), a copy of today’s El País to catch up on global affairs and Spanish grammar, as well as Water Margin, a Chinese fiction filled with epic adventures – the fourteenth century equivalent of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill.
