There are a number of different types of Japanese kitchen knives. The most commonly used types in the Japanese kitchen are the deba bocho (kitchen cleaver), the santoku hocho (all-purpose utility knife), the nakiri bocho and usuba hocho (Japanese vegetable knives), and the tako hiki and yanagi ba (sashimi slicers).

Since a few years the Santoku knife has gained popularity in America, seemingly because Rachael Ray used it as her favorite knife in her show. Many of the well-known Western knife manufacturers started to produce copies of this Japanese knife. Originally, it is used as an all-purpose knife in the Japanese kitchen and functions there in a same....

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An elderly shop keeper was able to talk a would-be-thief out of robbing his store not once, but twice. "He's probably thought he'd give the old man a bit of a scare if he pulled out a knife, but when he saw how relaxed the shopkeeper was, it might have dented his confidence," an officer from the Joto Police Station said....

Homicide victims' support groups have called for a toy which acts out stabbing and slashing to be taken off the shelves. They are based on a Japanese ninja cartoon series and come equipped with an arsenal of weapons. In one hand it holds a knife and its arms are programmed only to punch and stab.