Before prototyping the store’s signature Water-in Soap in 2012, Tanaka had 20 years of research and development experience at Procter & Gamble Japan KK, part of the U.S. entity that sells ...

For every Japanese bamboo basket he collected, for each children’s book he bought, for every ornate Chinese hand mirror he acquired, there was a bar of soap to thank. Lloyd Cotsen — aspiring ...