About & Advertising Policy

About this site

Kaimono Lab is an English-language research media outlet. We look into products and services using official information and public data before introducing them. Our editorial policy is simple: sort out what you would want to know before buying, clearly separate what we could verify from what we could not, and write it up honestly.

Kaimono Lab is the English edition of the Japanese research media かいもの研究所 (Kaimono Lab). The Japanese edition is at kaimono-lab.pages.dev.

Meet Ito

Ito | Kaimono Lab — I research products I'm curious about and write honest summaries. PR is always labeled.

Ito is the face and narrator of Kaimono Lab. Her job is research: reading official specifications, pricing, and terms, comparing them across sources, and summarizing what checks out. When Kaimono Lab has not used a product, our articles never claim otherwise — what we publish is research, presented as research.

Advertising (PR labeling)

This site contains affiliate advertising (performance-based ads). Any article that includes advertising is clearly labeled "PR" at the top. If you purchase or sign up through a link on this site, we may receive a commission. Whether or not a commission exists never changes how we evaluate a product or the order in which we present information.

How we research

Prices, specifications, and conditions in our articles are verified on manufacturers' official websites, official stores, and official announcements, and each article states the date the information was checked. Anything we could not verify is marked as unverified rather than filled in with guesses. Claims made by manufacturers (effects, comparisons, and so on) are presented as the manufacturer's claims, kept clearly separate from facts we have verified.

About reviews

We do not write "I tried it" style reviews of products we have not actually used. When we refer to third-party impressions or reviews, we cite the source and make clear that it is someone else's opinion.

Publisher

Kaimono Lab editorial team (independently operated)

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