 INTER-LAB stands for the internet business laboratory. The name "INTER"
reflects Inter-Lab's focus and is a cumulation of the words International,
Interactive, Interesting and Internet.
Our company, INTER-LAB CORPORATION, was founded in December 2000 to promote
the spread of the internet through several corporate activities including
e-consultation, construction and renovation of corporate websites, operation
of online shopping and community websites and some others.
Above all, our world-wide online shopping site "Zen-shop" has
become the most important and the biggest part of INTER-LAB's business,
with a great number of customers from all over the world. The goal of Zen-shop
is to offer products of interest to people who have a desire to be closer
to Japan's culture, history, customs and crafts.
Though the Internet is an excellent tool in making products available to
people from all over the world, Zen-shop has no interest in the marketing
of inferior items, and as such takes great pride in continuing to provide
quality in favor of quantity.
To this end, Zen-shop is always looking for more interesting or higher
quality items at reasonable prices that we feel do justice to our country's
crafts and culture, as well as the craftsmen who make them.
Since the inception of Inter-Lab Corporation in December 2000 and the opening
of Zen-shop in April 2001, we have and will continue to take pride in supplying
high quality products to discerning customers from all over the world.
As we all know, the advance of modern technology and industry throughout
the world can adversely affect how we regard our cultural assets. Younger
generations increasingly show little or no interest in the trades and skills
of their elders. With the passing of time, the numbers of skilled craftsmen
will surely decline throughout the world. This is something that Zen-shop
would hope to delay or even prevent by re-generating international and
local interest in customs, culture and crafts starting with Japan.
Furthermore, Zen-shop is interested in communication and interchange of
culture and customs, eventually hoping to provide items of interest from
many countries around the world for sale to our local Japanese customers.
The world's increasingly borderless environment, while allowing fast paced
communication and large scale business throughout the world, also poses
a threat to each country's cultural identity, customs and crafts. While
understanding that although these advances in our global society can of
course be beneficial, we also feel that due caution is needed in order
to protect and preserve each country's culture, customs and crafts. Zen-shop
hopes that through the introduction of Japan's crafts and culture that
you will also take deeper interest in your own country's culture, customs
and crafts too.
Although Zen-shop is only a tiny part of the large borderless world that
we all inhabit, we sincerely hope that our activities can contribute to
the preservation of, and generation of interest in the many cultures, customs
and crafts throughout the globe.
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