1st of January this year an earthquake hit Japan and Wajima City was very heavily affected. Amongst those building heavily damaged and destroyed are the workshops of Nakaya.

The official release from Nakaya reads:

We appreciate your concern and kind words in response to the disaster in Wajima City, Ishikawa Prefecture.

As reported in the media, many buildings have been completely destroyed, and Nakaya’s production base is also in a devastating situation.
Therefore, we will stop accepting orders of lacquered products for the time being from today.
When we have a good prospect to resume accepting orders, we will notify you on our website.
We will contact you individually regarding products you have already ordered sequentially.

With the warm support of everyone in the world, Nakaya has gradually increased the connection with craftsmen during this quarter century, but we will be starting from scratch again.
Those affected by the disaster are moving forward with strength, so we appreciate your continued support.

The products and services that we continue to sell are below.
1. The adjusting pen nibs and the repairing without lacquer painting.
＊For repairing, please make sure to contact us before sending.

2. Accessories
＊Pen pouch, Leather pen case, Clothes for lacquer products, and etc.

3. Goat shrink leather wrapped pen
https://www.nakaya.org/en/review.aspx?id=100109&type=body

We will continue to support Wajima and introduce the various products we have created with you all so far.

I first read of this through the weekly published list of links at Pen Addict.

I am sure we wish all at Nakaya, as well as anyone else caught by the earthquake, well and hope they are able to quickly recover from the damage. By the sounds of things all the Nakaya staff were ok.