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Moonstar, by way of context, has been making shoes in Kurume, Japan since the late 1800s, which sounds like a made up fact, or at least a strongly exaggerated one, but just so happens to be entirely true. In the early 1900s, the shoe whizzes behind the brand mastered vulcanization—a process that bonds comfortable rubber soles to uppers of various materials, usually canvas—and after that, they never looked back. (Nota bene: For all of you Tabi freaks, Moonstar still makes a version of its…
