Saturday, December 28, 2002
Greetings from J-List December 28, 2002
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Tuesday, December 24, 2002
Greetings from J-List December 24, 2002
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Friday, December 20, 2002
Greetings from J-List December 20, 2002
Hello again from your friends in Japan!
Late December is here, and 2002 is quickly winding down. In Japan, this is the season for "bounenkai," which means year-end party, or literally translated, "forget-the-year party." In Japan, you never have a New Year's party before the new year actually arrives; instead you have year-end parties to meet with friends over drinks and look back on the past year and reflect. Companies have these parties, too, a time to get together and look at how the year went. The J-List bounenkai is tonight, in just a few hours. We'll gather at a local pub-restaurant, eat sashimi and udon and jumbo croquettes and "mix pizza," and of course down lots of beer.
Sometimes I feel like I'm the luckiest guy on Earth. I get to live in Japan, and work with a special team of Japanese and American staff members in a company that sells unique and fun things from Japan to great people all over the world. I'm married to a beautiful Japanese woman, and I live in a liquor store (it's true -- the first floor of our house in Japan is a rural Japanese liquor shop). I get to live in Japan, but because you never stop loving your own home country, I get to go home to the States (living in Japan will cause you to refer to the USA as "the States" all the time) several times a year. Since we go home so often, we get the benefit of comparing prices between Japan and the U.S., and buy items in whichever country has them at the better price. My wife saw an Infomercial for Roomba, that robot that vacuums your room for you, and was about to order it from the Japanese seller for $400. I checked the Internet and verified that it could be found in the U.S. for half that price, and so I got one for her.
The New York Yankees are getting a new star, as Hideki Matsui ends his nine year career with the Tokyo Giants to join the wave of players going to play in the Big Leagues in the USA. When he played at the famous Koshien games, the World Series of high school baseball here, his team lost because he was intentionally walked every time he got to the plate. The unfairness of this made him famous among baseball fans, and he was picked up by the Tokyo Giants at a salary of $1 million, an incredible sum for a young Japanese player. Matsui returned the favor by hitting the most home runs of any rookie in Japanese baseball his first year with the Giants. He holds the 2nd highest batting average in Japanese baseball currently, and leads baseball in career homeruns and RBIs. His number is number 55, which is "go juu go" in Japanese. This sounds close enough to Godzilla that someone decided to give him that name. We hope he does well! (Expert baseball information provided by Tomo.)
Speaking of Godzilla, we've got a great item for you today: Bandai's Hyper Godzilla series, a collection of six different Godzilla monsters and enemies for them to fight. Each figure come with little vehicles for the monsters to destroy, as well as delicious ramune (lamune) candy, with the taste of that famous marble-in-the-bottle drink from Japan. And full sets are available!
For the new update, we've got some excellent products from Japan for you. They include:
For our adult customers, we've got many new 18+ products. They include:
Remember that J-List has cool items you never knew existed in stock. On our "Stationary and Study Items" page we have Japanese fude-pens, pens which have brush points so you can write as if you had a calligraphy brush. Why not browse our "wacky things from Japan" and see what we've got for you?
Also remember we've still got dozens of calendars in stock, including excellent and unique large-format calendars with lovely Japanese idols and Race Queens, anime calendars, funny character calendars, and more. Our prices are great, and you get free tubes if you get 2 or more calendars. Thanks for helping us clear out our stock of 2003 calendars!
Late December is here, and 2002 is quickly winding down. In Japan, this is the season for "bounenkai," which means year-end party, or literally translated, "forget-the-year party." In Japan, you never have a New Year's party before the new year actually arrives; instead you have year-end parties to meet with friends over drinks and look back on the past year and reflect. Companies have these parties, too, a time to get together and look at how the year went. The J-List bounenkai is tonight, in just a few hours. We'll gather at a local pub-restaurant, eat sashimi and udon and jumbo croquettes and "mix pizza," and of course down lots of beer.
Sometimes I feel like I'm the luckiest guy on Earth. I get to live in Japan, and work with a special team of Japanese and American staff members in a company that sells unique and fun things from Japan to great people all over the world. I'm married to a beautiful Japanese woman, and I live in a liquor store (it's true -- the first floor of our house in Japan is a rural Japanese liquor shop). I get to live in Japan, but because you never stop loving your own home country, I get to go home to the States (living in Japan will cause you to refer to the USA as "the States" all the time) several times a year. Since we go home so often, we get the benefit of comparing prices between Japan and the U.S., and buy items in whichever country has them at the better price. My wife saw an Infomercial for Roomba, that robot that vacuums your room for you, and was about to order it from the Japanese seller for $400. I checked the Internet and verified that it could be found in the U.S. for half that price, and so I got one for her.
The New York Yankees are getting a new star, as Hideki Matsui ends his nine year career with the Tokyo Giants to join the wave of players going to play in the Big Leagues in the USA. When he played at the famous Koshien games, the World Series of high school baseball here, his team lost because he was intentionally walked every time he got to the plate. The unfairness of this made him famous among baseball fans, and he was picked up by the Tokyo Giants at a salary of $1 million, an incredible sum for a young Japanese player. Matsui returned the favor by hitting the most home runs of any rookie in Japanese baseball his first year with the Giants. He holds the 2nd highest batting average in Japanese baseball currently, and leads baseball in career homeruns and RBIs. His number is number 55, which is "go juu go" in Japanese. This sounds close enough to Godzilla that someone decided to give him that name. We hope he does well! (Expert baseball information provided by Tomo.)
Speaking of Godzilla, we've got a great item for you today: Bandai's Hyper Godzilla series, a collection of six different Godzilla monsters and enemies for them to fight. Each figure come with little vehicles for the monsters to destroy, as well as delicious ramune (lamune) candy, with the taste of that famous marble-in-the-bottle drink from Japan. And full sets are available!
For the new update, we've got some excellent products from Japan for you. They include:
- First, for baseball fans, we've located limited stock of the excellent Ichiro figures, fun to collect and display
- Blythe is the name of a great (but slightly weird looking) doll made back in the 1970s in the U.S.. The doll was shown in a TV commercial in Japan, and suddenly they're the hottest thing the Takara toy company can make -- and we've got more in stock
- Tare Panda (literally "drooping panda") is a super cute panda character from Japan -- we've got a super Tare Panda doll that you can dress up!
- Also for fans of rare toy items from Japan, we've got fresh stock of the Totoro tin toys, the Japan-only plush Yoda, the Totoro apron that sold out in record time before, and fresh stock of the "Makkuro Kurosuke" Soot Sprites from Totoro/Spirited Away
- For fans of Japanese lovely idols, enjoy the photobook of Lucky Legs, an oddly named but very sexy idol team
- For Hello Kitty fans, we've got some nice items for you, including Hello Kitty potato chips, super fun Hello Kitty Mini Town Story playsets, fresh stock of Hello Kitty ear cleaners, and more
- Japan is really gaga over Hamtaro, the super cute hamster who is taking the world by storm -- check out the hamster-related items we've got, including a fabulous deluxe pencil case with many cool features
- Look for new wacky stickers in Japanese, including limited stock of the famous "It is forbidden to urinate here"
- For fans of Japanese snacks and candy, enjoy more Gravel Choco (a new flavor), Hamtaro lollipops with pop rocks, chocolate candy that comes with a character stamp, and more
- Also, fresh stock of some popular items, like Candy Bubbles (bubbles that you can eat), Ultraman Tomato Pretz, miso soup, furikake and more
- Our sale on "The Dog" has succeeded beyond our wildest dreams, so that we have next to nothing in stock -- but we've posted a few items we found, er, hiding in our stock room, for those who can't get enough of this uniquely Japanese item
- For your kitchen, more Japanese miso soup bowls (can't keep these in stock), and a fun cup for children that's got funny French on it
- For lovers of Loose Socks, we've got a new size in stock, attractive 70 cm loose socks, which look great when bunched up (hold them up with "socks glue" for best effect)
- For those wanting to learn like the Japanese do, we've got fresh stock of the Zebra Check Set, which makes it easy to drill yourself on information and memorize it, no matter what you're studying -- they're great!
- For Tokyo Mew Mew fans, we've restocked the super cute Ichigo Mew figures
- For fans of anime cards, we've got some really cute cards for the Candy Strip anime, some great "sticker gum" for Sailor Moon lovers, and more
- Finally find a handy Quartz clock, a super item for Paddington fans, a Bad Batz Maru pencil case, more sushi makers, and more!
For our adult customers, we've got many new 18+ products. They include:
- For fans of Japanese adult magazines, we've got the new Bejean, just loaded with beautiful girls like Mai Hagiwara, Maiko Kazano and more
- We love photobooks, and have some nice ones for you, including the Hadaka (Nude) File, a book documenting the nude bodies of lovely Japanese girls
- Also, enjoy the first nude photobook of the lovely Shiho Asakura, a charming
- For fans of Japan's CG characters, we've got a killer extra large photobook of "Virtual Beauties" like Yuki Terai -- a super item that's not to be missed by CG fans!
- For hentai manga lovers, enjoy many new works, including erotic comics by Japan's top manga houses, including some hentai comics drawn by female artists, too
- We've got more great DVDs for you, starting with the lovely No Cut!! collection of three full video releases of the lovely Mami Kobato (whose last name means "small pigeon" in Japanese) -- 240 minutes! (region free)
- From Dogma, enjoy their "1.5th Anniversary" featuring their very best works over the past 18 months -- a great sampler with all their best works, and the price is great (region free)
- Akira Watase, the sultry lady whose remade herself into a red-hot indies idol, performs some of her best work in an erotic offering from Dogma (region free)
- Enjoy a new twist on bukkake, filmed in slow-motion with high-speed cameras, a new and very erotic DVD release from Soft on Demand (region free)
- Finally, from Deep's, a great new offering, Dance Dance Lesbian, featuring very sassy and bold lesbians in some of the most fresh and erotic lovemaking we've seen in a long time (region free).
Remember that J-List has cool items you never knew existed in stock. On our "Stationary and Study Items" page we have Japanese fude-pens, pens which have brush points so you can write as if you had a calligraphy brush. Why not browse our "wacky things from Japan" and see what we've got for you?
Also remember we've still got dozens of calendars in stock, including excellent and unique large-format calendars with lovely Japanese idols and Race Queens, anime calendars, funny character calendars, and more. Our prices are great, and you get free tubes if you get 2 or more calendars. Thanks for helping us clear out our stock of 2003 calendars!
Wednesday, December 18, 2002
Greetings from J-List December 18, 2002
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Monday, December 16, 2002
Greetings from J-List December 16, 2002
Hello again from Japan, the only country in the world that would make vegetable yogurt (it was billed as a "yogurt salad").
Japanese is a linguistically impoverished language -- there are only 5 vowels, all paired into syllables with consonants (ka, ki, ku, ke, ko, etc.). This is where the thick accent Japanese speakers of English sometimes have comes from -- from birth, the repertoire of sounds they make is far more limited than speakers of other languages. For some phonetic reason, Japanese lacks the sound "ti" (sounding like "tea") as well as the linguistically related "di" sound (sounding like "dee"). Without a way to express these sounds in Japanese, foreign words like "Disneyland" and "party" could not be correctly represented, and subsequently entered the Japanese language as "Desneyland" and "parteh," which sound strange to the English ear. A "patch" was introduced at some time in the last few decades, basically a way to express "ti" and "di" in the katakana writing system, but unfortunately for a generation of older Japanese, they learned a slew of foreign loan words with the older, strange pronunciations. Now, pronouncing words like "panty" as "panteh" or the letter T as "teh" (rhyming with "way") is the mark of an old fogey here (although, as a foreigner, it's kind of fun to pronounce these words wrong on purpose sometimes)
There's a really useful phrase in Japanese that can be used in a variety of situations: "okage-sama de" (oh-KA-gey-sama-deh, with a hard 'g' on 'gey') which literally means "thanks to you." For some reason, the Japanese often respond to compliments by turning them back on the person doing the complimenting. For example, if someone were to compliment me on my being able to write a certain kanji character, I could say "Okage-sama de" to them -- "Yes, thanks to you." This seems to imply that I'm thanking that person for teaching me the character, even if I'd never met the person before, but that's the way the phrase is used. If you want to have fun with Japanese people, pull the phrase out suddenly and watch how they react.
Calendars continue to fly out the door, and more and more of them are selling out right before our eyes. We've gone through and knocked down prices on another two dozen calendars to help you help us get them out the door. We especially recommend the very lovely Japanese idol calendars, which feature beautiful Japanese actresses, race queens and swimsuit idols captured in huge poster-size glossy sheets. Our prices are rock-bottom now, and coupled with our buy-two-or-more-get-free-mailing-tubes offer, you can really save on some fabulous 2003 Japanese calendars. Because the calendars we sell are not available outside of Japan, you've always got a unique piece of the country to put on your wall and impress your friends all year long.
For the new update, we've got some excellent products from Japan for you. They include:
Don't forget that J-List is giving free shipping on all Peach Princess games this month, so you can get great titles like X-Change (a sex change comedy game) or Snow Drop (a romantic love simulation game in a winter wonderland) and save money. This offer will end at the end of the month.
Also remember that J-List carries many items from Japan, which we group together as "wacky things from Japan." These range from unique character goods to things you can use to help learn Japanese to other items that, while they might not be necessities, are just plain cool (Hello Kitty toilet paper comes to mind). A lot of the items we sell are perfect for gifts, and Mayumi works very hard to keep the Wacky Things categories well stocked. We love selling these fun items, since it gives us a chance to actually bring you something cool that you can buy and touch and use, rather than just telling you about the neat things they have in Japan. Check out our excellent and wacky things from Japan, today!
Japanese is a linguistically impoverished language -- there are only 5 vowels, all paired into syllables with consonants (ka, ki, ku, ke, ko, etc.). This is where the thick accent Japanese speakers of English sometimes have comes from -- from birth, the repertoire of sounds they make is far more limited than speakers of other languages. For some phonetic reason, Japanese lacks the sound "ti" (sounding like "tea") as well as the linguistically related "di" sound (sounding like "dee"). Without a way to express these sounds in Japanese, foreign words like "Disneyland" and "party" could not be correctly represented, and subsequently entered the Japanese language as "Desneyland" and "parteh," which sound strange to the English ear. A "patch" was introduced at some time in the last few decades, basically a way to express "ti" and "di" in the katakana writing system, but unfortunately for a generation of older Japanese, they learned a slew of foreign loan words with the older, strange pronunciations. Now, pronouncing words like "panty" as "panteh" or the letter T as "teh" (rhyming with "way") is the mark of an old fogey here (although, as a foreigner, it's kind of fun to pronounce these words wrong on purpose sometimes)
There's a really useful phrase in Japanese that can be used in a variety of situations: "okage-sama de" (oh-KA-gey-sama-deh, with a hard 'g' on 'gey') which literally means "thanks to you." For some reason, the Japanese often respond to compliments by turning them back on the person doing the complimenting. For example, if someone were to compliment me on my being able to write a certain kanji character, I could say "Okage-sama de" to them -- "Yes, thanks to you." This seems to imply that I'm thanking that person for teaching me the character, even if I'd never met the person before, but that's the way the phrase is used. If you want to have fun with Japanese people, pull the phrase out suddenly and watch how they react.
Calendars continue to fly out the door, and more and more of them are selling out right before our eyes. We've gone through and knocked down prices on another two dozen calendars to help you help us get them out the door. We especially recommend the very lovely Japanese idol calendars, which feature beautiful Japanese actresses, race queens and swimsuit idols captured in huge poster-size glossy sheets. Our prices are rock-bottom now, and coupled with our buy-two-or-more-get-free-mailing-tubes offer, you can really save on some fabulous 2003 Japanese calendars. Because the calendars we sell are not available outside of Japan, you've always got a unique piece of the country to put on your wall and impress your friends all year long.
For the new update, we've got some excellent products from Japan for you. They include:
- First, for anime and toy fans, we've got several nice new items for you, including a beautiful Tokyo Mew Mew fashion doll and a deluxe Chun Li figure from Marmit o Also, a limited edition flexible "magnet figure" set for Lupin III fans, from Unifive o For Hello Kitty lovers, we've got some great items, including a traditional money bank, a fun Kitty hamburger stand toy, Kitty oil absorbing paper, and fresh stock of the #1 product in the history of J-List, the Hello Kitty shoulder massagers o We've restocked the popular Studio Ghibli anime DVDs for Totoro, Laputa, Spirited Away, which feature fabulous prints of the movies and English dub/subtitles o If you want to try some fun snack and food items from Japan, we've got you covered -- enjoy Japanese jellybeans, baked potato crackers and real steamed squid from Hokkaido! o Also many restocked items, including the hit item Gravel Choco, delicious chocolate that looks like little rocks o We have some nice bento/kitchen items for you, including a cute chopstick case, a "Pop Animal" bottle opener, a super non-stick rice scoop, and more o For anyone who takes medicine, we've got what may be the most convenient "carrying pill case" we've ever seen o For fans of Japanese hot springs, we've got fresh stock of the excellent "Bub" tablets that dissolve in your bath like Alka-Seltzer o We've got nice items like Japanese origami paper, dry curry mix, and interesting incense sticks for you to check out o Finally, look for a super-handy business card carrier, a nifty large postcard book with cute cat characters, a fun Sanrio name tag for your items, and more!
Don't forget that J-List is giving free shipping on all Peach Princess games this month, so you can get great titles like X-Change (a sex change comedy game) or Snow Drop (a romantic love simulation game in a winter wonderland) and save money. This offer will end at the end of the month.
Also remember that J-List carries many items from Japan, which we group together as "wacky things from Japan." These range from unique character goods to things you can use to help learn Japanese to other items that, while they might not be necessities, are just plain cool (Hello Kitty toilet paper comes to mind). A lot of the items we sell are perfect for gifts, and Mayumi works very hard to keep the Wacky Things categories well stocked. We love selling these fun items, since it gives us a chance to actually bring you something cool that you can buy and touch and use, rather than just telling you about the neat things they have in Japan. Check out our excellent and wacky things from Japan, today!
Friday, December 13, 2002
Greetings from J-List December 13, 2002
Hello from Japan, where natto (fermented soybeans) mixed with hot mustard and soy sauce is a popular breakfast.
I'm feeling extra-refreshed today, because I took an evening off of work to enjoy a traditional hot springs hotel with some gaijin friends from overseas. The Japanese really take bathing seriously, and have a very highly developed idea of what a good bath is. The best baths are natural hot springs, called onsen in Japanese, and happily, there are many famous hot springs in our prefecture. There are many different kinds of hot springs, some in small establishments where there's only one bath, and some larger hotels which have a dozen different baths or more, including beautifully designed outdoor baths -- it's always fun to try them all. There are also some "fake" hot springs which use boilers to heat the water, but they're convenient to go to, and there are several near my house. In Japanese hot springs and public baths, you always bathe in large baths used by everyone, with just a small towel to cover your nether regions. Before you get into a bath, you wash yourself thoroughly and then enjoy the bath. Although Japan is famous for men and women bathing together, mixed baths are almost impossible to find in Japan -- I've only found one in all my years in Japan, and believe me, I've looked.
A trip to an onsen hotel in Japan is an interesting experience, no matter which hotel you go to. First, you arrive at your room, usually a Japanese-style tatami room, where you drink tea and marvel at how beautiful and "Japanese" your room looks. You can then go check out the baths if you like, walking while wearing your yukata, a cotton kimono that's very comfortable (although they don't always fit foreigners that well). For dinner, the food is usually very Japanese, with lots of fish and beautifully-arranged vegetables, and always a few things that you can't identify. After dinner, it's back to the baths for more bathing. If you want, you can find karaoke, video games (always very out of date), and ping pong in a "night corner" somewhere in the hotel -- it's some unwritten onsen rule that all these things must be available to complete the customer's onsen experience. You can also eat some ramen or HagenDaaz ice cream, too, then head back to your room to sleep on Japanese futons. If you want to learn more about Japanese hot springs, we humbly recommend Tokimeki Check in!, a great Japanese interactive love-sim game in which you're the owner of a Japanese hot springs inn.
J-List makes very unique T-shirts with funny message on them in Japanese. Now we've got a new discount offer to say thanks for making them such a success. Order 3 or more T-shirts and get 10% off! The discount will be applied at checkout automatically.
Our 2003 calendars continue to fly out the door, and every day a few more sell out completely. To help you help us move our huge stock of JPOP, sexy idol, anime, traaditional Japanese and other calendars, we've lowered prices again. Please browse our stock and see what you'd like to have on your wall next year -- order two or more calendars and your shipping tubes are free!
For the weekend update, we've got some excellent products from Japan for you. They include:
For our adult customers, we've got many new 18+ products. They include:
Remember that J-List carries many interesting and delicious kinds of Japanese chewing gum, including major varieties from Lotte. The most popular is by far Black Black, the spicy caffeine gum that's never failed to amaze us with the speed with which it sells out every week. Other popular gum we sell include Lotte's Blue Berry, No Time (gum that brushes your teeth for you when you're too busy), Juicy Melon (the newest flavor) and more. And in each pack, there are "lucky" sticks that have "Yes! Chewing!" printed on them. Order 10 or more packs of one flavor of gum to get 15% off.
I'm feeling extra-refreshed today, because I took an evening off of work to enjoy a traditional hot springs hotel with some gaijin friends from overseas. The Japanese really take bathing seriously, and have a very highly developed idea of what a good bath is. The best baths are natural hot springs, called onsen in Japanese, and happily, there are many famous hot springs in our prefecture. There are many different kinds of hot springs, some in small establishments where there's only one bath, and some larger hotels which have a dozen different baths or more, including beautifully designed outdoor baths -- it's always fun to try them all. There are also some "fake" hot springs which use boilers to heat the water, but they're convenient to go to, and there are several near my house. In Japanese hot springs and public baths, you always bathe in large baths used by everyone, with just a small towel to cover your nether regions. Before you get into a bath, you wash yourself thoroughly and then enjoy the bath. Although Japan is famous for men and women bathing together, mixed baths are almost impossible to find in Japan -- I've only found one in all my years in Japan, and believe me, I've looked.
A trip to an onsen hotel in Japan is an interesting experience, no matter which hotel you go to. First, you arrive at your room, usually a Japanese-style tatami room, where you drink tea and marvel at how beautiful and "Japanese" your room looks. You can then go check out the baths if you like, walking while wearing your yukata, a cotton kimono that's very comfortable (although they don't always fit foreigners that well). For dinner, the food is usually very Japanese, with lots of fish and beautifully-arranged vegetables, and always a few things that you can't identify. After dinner, it's back to the baths for more bathing. If you want, you can find karaoke, video games (always very out of date), and ping pong in a "night corner" somewhere in the hotel -- it's some unwritten onsen rule that all these things must be available to complete the customer's onsen experience. You can also eat some ramen or HagenDaaz ice cream, too, then head back to your room to sleep on Japanese futons. If you want to learn more about Japanese hot springs, we humbly recommend Tokimeki Check in!, a great Japanese interactive love-sim game in which you're the owner of a Japanese hot springs inn.
J-List makes very unique T-shirts with funny message on them in Japanese. Now we've got a new discount offer to say thanks for making them such a success. Order 3 or more T-shirts and get 10% off! The discount will be applied at checkout automatically.
Our 2003 calendars continue to fly out the door, and every day a few more sell out completely. To help you help us move our huge stock of JPOP, sexy idol, anime, traaditional Japanese and other calendars, we've lowered prices again. Please browse our stock and see what you'd like to have on your wall next year -- order two or more calendars and your shipping tubes are free!
For the weekend update, we've got some excellent products from Japan for you. They include:
- First, we've got many nice toy items in stock for you, starting
with a super-soft plush Totoro that features suction cups so you can stick
him to the inside of your car -- it's great - Also, from Takara, a super-popular happy character toy called
Hidamari no Tami, which moves his head from side to side and makes you feel
happy, and runs on solar power! - For Godzilla fans, two dynamite toys from the new Godzilla vs.
Mecha Godzilla movie, playing in Japan right now - From Furuta, a super series of Tokyo Mew Mew cute figures, very
cute - Domo-kun, the spokesmonster for Japan's national TV
broadcasting station NHK, is back, with two different Domo-kun coffee cups
that are really unique and special - For fans of lovely Race Queens from Japan, a super "Best of
Race Queen 2002" photobook for you - We have some great Hello Kitty items, including a maze and
activity book, a Kitty diary with lock, and a super-cute memo pad with
stickers - We love Japanese snacks, and have some great new ones for you,
including chocolate covered gummi fruits (delicious!), Mini Moni bubble
gum, and more - Also, look for many restocked miso soup and other delicious
items - For trading card collectors, we've got the super cool Patlabor
the Movie 3 trading cards, very nice - Look for a major update of bento related items, including some
of our most popular bento boxes and sets, as well as chopsticks, onigiri
makers and more - Finally, look for great items for your kitchen including
Japanese tupperware containers, a cute memo holder, tasty lip balm in fruit
flavors, and more!
For our adult customers, we've got many new 18+ products. They include:
- First of all, we're happy to announce a great new bishoujo
game, Tottemo Pherome, the latest game from our friends at G-Collections,
with great uncensored graphics and full Japanese voice! It ships after Dec.
18 but we're posting it now to give fans a chance to preorder it and get
free shipping - For fans of Japanese magazines, we've got the excellent
large-format Gokuh, featuring dozens of top-quality Japanese AV idols and
many great photographs - Also, more popular hardcore magazines from Japan, including the
new issue of "I'm sure I love married women after all" - Japan's hardcover photobooks, with beautiful glossy printing,
are famous all over the world, and we've added some great new ones,
including Momoka Hayakawa's "Natural Water" and the sultry Yumi Kitagawa's
"Purple Haze" - For hentai manga lovers, we've got some nice new items for you,
including AV Comics Juice of Girl and a 2-manga set from Wani Comics - For DVD lovers, we've got some excellent new items for you,
starting off with a "Best Hit Selection in the Momo Aida" -- 4 hours of the
best performances of Momo Aida, a major AV star from the 1990s and a
favorite of mine (region free) - Then enjoy 3 hours of superb lesbian hardcore in "Addicted to
Lesbian" (region free) - Enjoy the magical sex of six lovely AV stars in Little Indecent
Girl "MEGU" (region free) - There's another excellent first lesbian kiss DVD featuring the
first nude lesbian kiss of beautiful women, from SOD (region free) - See beautiful girls fight it out in a new Cat Fight release,
great for fans of authentic female pro wrestling as only Japan can do it
(region free) - Enjoy the beautiful AV star named "Kay" who stars in a superb
mix of bukkake themed productions from Waap -- enjoy them all on one DVD
(region 2) - Finally find new DVDs in stock, including the Megumi Osawa
Special, fresh stock of The Lingerie, more stock of Semen Real Fight, Vs.
Black Fuck and Semen and even Mizuho Kano's great hardcore!
Remember that J-List carries many interesting and delicious kinds of Japanese chewing gum, including major varieties from Lotte. The most popular is by far Black Black, the spicy caffeine gum that's never failed to amaze us with the speed with which it sells out every week. Other popular gum we sell include Lotte's Blue Berry, No Time (gum that brushes your teeth for you when you're too busy), Juicy Melon (the newest flavor) and more. And in each pack, there are "lucky" sticks that have "Yes! Chewing!" printed on them. Order 10 or more packs of one flavor of gum to get 15% off.
Wednesday, December 11, 2002
Greetings from J-List December 11, 2002
Hello from your friendly neighborhood gaijin in Japan!
First of all, congratulations to Yasu and his wife on the birth of their first child! Little Miu-chan was born on Sunday and is a very healthy and happy little girl (3302 grams, 52 cm long). Miu-chan is a "San Francsico Baby" -- conceived while Yasu and his wife went on their honeymoon to that beautiful city. Here's a picture if you want to see the happy father and daughter: http://www.jlist.com/c3/miu.jpg
One thing that's often a shock to outgoing, cheerful Westerners is the Japanese tendency of modesty. Try praising a Japanese person by telling them how good their English is, and they'll disagree with you, telling you "No, my English isn't good at all." If you compliment most American women on how pretty they look, they'll probably reply with a warm "thank you." Taking note of how pretty a Japanese women looks can be a confusing experience, though, as they shake their head and firmly disagree with you. In Japanese society, the concept of "kenson" (translated as humility or modesty) is an important quality for people to have in a land that's got so many people per square kilometer (325 in Japan, vs. just 26 in the USA). There are many stereotypes and silly notions about Japanese modesty, many which were inserted into American popular culture by novelists like James Clavell, but basically, the concept of "kenson" just means that people not be boastful but instead try to play down their own skills or abilities in a polite way. There are many phrases in Japanese that illustrate this tendency to show humility in front of others. For example, when you give someone a gift, you usually say "Here's something that's not interesting" (tsumaranai mono desu kedo...) or if you bake someone a cake, you say, "I'm not sure if it tastes good or not..." (Oishii ka dou ka wakaranai kedo).
In Japan, it's year-end gift giving season again. Companies give gifts to each other to show feelings of thanks for services rendered in the past, and to say "yoroshiku onegai shimasu" (a very hard phrase to translate -- it sort of means "please continue to be of service to me in the future") for the coming half year. The two gift-giving periods (called Chugen in the summer, and Oseibo in the winter) is a big part of the Japanese economy, and companies compete to make the most interesting gifts available. This year J-List sent sake from our prefecture and Starbucks coffee to the various distributors and other companies we do business with.
I get a lot of questions from people who want to teach ESL (that's English as a Second Language in teacher-speak) in Japan. While there are tens of thousands of people teaching English in Japan at a variety of schools, the long Japanese recession has done a lot of damage to the "eikaiwa" (English conversation) industry, bringing salaries and general teaching conditions down. Teaching English is still a great way to get to see and live in Japan, and it's also a super way to meet some very nice Japanese people who are interested in learning English -- but anyone interested in teaching in Japan (or in other countries in Asia) should know that teaching ESL isn't the stuff that satisfying careers are made of, for many people. Anyone who wants to give it a try, either on the JET program, or at one of the three major English conversation school chains, or at smaller private schools, would need a bachelors degree from a four-year college (any subject will do, no one cares what you majored in here), an open mind about things like squid pizza (you think I'm joking, don't you?), and the desire to do right by your Japanese hosts -- e.g., learn a little humility (see above). You can see my (slightly dated) article on teaching ESL in Japan at http://www.peterpayne.net
We're making some improvements to the J-List site for you. When you purchase 10 or more of items like Pocky, Pretz, Japanese chewing gum, and so on, you can get 15% off your purchase. In the past, the discount did not show in the J-List shopping cart automatically, but now it does. So for our 25% off on "The Dog" sale this month, all you need to do is add 3 or more "The Dog" items to your cart and the discount will be calculated automatically when you check out. As always, please report any problems you experience with the site, in case we got something wrong -- thanks!
For the new update, we've got a lot of great items from Japan, including:
For our adult customers, we've got many new 18+ products. They include:
You can shop for unique products from Japan with many ways to pay for your orders. First, we accept credit cards (Visa/MC/Amex/Discover) through a secure server, which is the most popular method with our customers. Paypal is another very convenient way to pay for orders -- you sign up with the company and can make purchases using a credit card or checking account tied to your Paypal email address. Check or money orders are also cheerfully accepted, and cash is okay too, as long as you take precautions with it. For many international purchasers, we've found that postal money orders, which you can buy in US$ from any post office, are often the most trouble-free (and inexpensive) way to send money overseas. Finally, if you need it, Western Union is also an option. Let us know how we can serve you!
The J-Mate site has been updated yet again, with a new interview with the lovely Asai Honoka, conducted by another female (so it's real "girl talk"). You can also see reviews of many items we just happen to sell at J-List. The URL is http://www.jmate.com/
First of all, congratulations to Yasu and his wife on the birth of their first child! Little Miu-chan was born on Sunday and is a very healthy and happy little girl (3302 grams, 52 cm long). Miu-chan is a "San Francsico Baby" -- conceived while Yasu and his wife went on their honeymoon to that beautiful city. Here's a picture if you want to see the happy father and daughter: http://www.jlist.com/c3/miu.jpg
One thing that's often a shock to outgoing, cheerful Westerners is the Japanese tendency of modesty. Try praising a Japanese person by telling them how good their English is, and they'll disagree with you, telling you "No, my English isn't good at all." If you compliment most American women on how pretty they look, they'll probably reply with a warm "thank you." Taking note of how pretty a Japanese women looks can be a confusing experience, though, as they shake their head and firmly disagree with you. In Japanese society, the concept of "kenson" (translated as humility or modesty) is an important quality for people to have in a land that's got so many people per square kilometer (325 in Japan, vs. just 26 in the USA). There are many stereotypes and silly notions about Japanese modesty, many which were inserted into American popular culture by novelists like James Clavell, but basically, the concept of "kenson" just means that people not be boastful but instead try to play down their own skills or abilities in a polite way. There are many phrases in Japanese that illustrate this tendency to show humility in front of others. For example, when you give someone a gift, you usually say "Here's something that's not interesting" (tsumaranai mono desu kedo...) or if you bake someone a cake, you say, "I'm not sure if it tastes good or not..." (Oishii ka dou ka wakaranai kedo).
In Japan, it's year-end gift giving season again. Companies give gifts to each other to show feelings of thanks for services rendered in the past, and to say "yoroshiku onegai shimasu" (a very hard phrase to translate -- it sort of means "please continue to be of service to me in the future") for the coming half year. The two gift-giving periods (called Chugen in the summer, and Oseibo in the winter) is a big part of the Japanese economy, and companies compete to make the most interesting gifts available. This year J-List sent sake from our prefecture and Starbucks coffee to the various distributors and other companies we do business with.
I get a lot of questions from people who want to teach ESL (that's English as a Second Language in teacher-speak) in Japan. While there are tens of thousands of people teaching English in Japan at a variety of schools, the long Japanese recession has done a lot of damage to the "eikaiwa" (English conversation) industry, bringing salaries and general teaching conditions down. Teaching English is still a great way to get to see and live in Japan, and it's also a super way to meet some very nice Japanese people who are interested in learning English -- but anyone interested in teaching in Japan (or in other countries in Asia) should know that teaching ESL isn't the stuff that satisfying careers are made of, for many people. Anyone who wants to give it a try, either on the JET program, or at one of the three major English conversation school chains, or at smaller private schools, would need a bachelors degree from a four-year college (any subject will do, no one cares what you majored in here), an open mind about things like squid pizza (you think I'm joking, don't you?), and the desire to do right by your Japanese hosts -- e.g., learn a little humility (see above). You can see my (slightly dated) article on teaching ESL in Japan at http://www.peterpayne.net
We're making some improvements to the J-List site for you. When you purchase 10 or more of items like Pocky, Pretz, Japanese chewing gum, and so on, you can get 15% off your purchase. In the past, the discount did not show in the J-List shopping cart automatically, but now it does. So for our 25% off on "The Dog" sale this month, all you need to do is add 3 or more "The Dog" items to your cart and the discount will be calculated automatically when you check out. As always, please report any problems you experience with the site, in case we got something wrong -- thanks!
For the new update, we've got a lot of great items from Japan, including:
- First, we love the hit show Tokyo Mew Mew, which we think is
set to out-Sailor Moon Sailor Moon in the world of transforming cute girl
shows, even if one of the girls is named Mew Lettuce -- we've got some nice
toys from this show in stock - For fans of our delicious Japanese snacks, we've got some great
new items for you, including animal calcium cookies, a new flavor of the
runaway success Gravel Choco (chocolate that looks like little rocks), and
limited edition "air-in" chocolate (that is, whipped, fluffy chocolate) - Also, a very cool item: famous Japanese icons like daruma,
inviting cat and the famous Japanese raccoon, which come with delicious
chocolate-filled cookies - For those who'd like to try furikake, a word for any food that
is sprinkled over white rice, we've got some nice items including kimchee
flavored furikake and more - We've restocked several Totoro and related items, including
several Totoro music boxes, the Totoro Doll Collection, and the very
popular Totoro Magnet Set - Also, we've added stock of the very cool Snoopy Music Box from
Sun Arrow, which is a great item and only licensed for sale in the Japanese
market (except through us, wink wink) - For Hello Kitty fans, enjoy a super fun Kitty Drawing Board,
similar to Etch-a-Sketch, as well as other fun only-sold-in-Japan items,
restocked for you (including the popular Kitty business card holders) - We love the great English-dubbed and -subbed releases from
Studio Ghibli, and we've got fresh stock of one of my all-time favorite
Hayao Miyazaki films, Lupin III, the Castle of Caliostro, a *great* anime
film (region 2) - We've got a fantastic set of super deformed Kubrick-style
figures, MyClone, which parody Micronauts, Kamen Rider, and much more --
and we've got full sets available - Look for more cool chopsticks from Japan, in both adult length
and small sizes for kids - For fans of Japanese idols, we've restocked Yuka's charming
swimsuit DVD (region all) - In Japan, virtually everyone sends New Year's cards, and we've
got some spiffy stamps for making your own - Finally, find a super way to keep doors from closing, a nifty
all-purpose bag from Japan, more ways to enjoy a real Japanese hot springs,
and more!
For our adult customers, we've got many new 18+ products. They include:
- For fans of excellent adult magazines from Japan, we've got new
issues of E-Cup and I'm Gonna Ask You Out, featuring many lovely hardcore
Japanese gals (including Hitomi Hayasaka) - Enjoy superb busty women from Japan with Super Natural Peach
Breast Girls, a double-thick issue of Gal's Dee - We've got great photobook items for you, including Ai Kurosawa
as your virtual live-in girlfriend, as well as a super-sexy photobook
featuring Mayuka Suzuki (love those rabbit ears) - Also for fans of Japan's dynamite leg and stocking fetish
photobooks, fresh stock of the superb "Tail to Nose" - We've got a nice issue of DVD Baveux, featuring a DVD with 2
hours of great sampler content and more (region 2) - For hentai manga fans, enjoy many nice new volumes posted to
the site, including an erotic "Happy Present" from Plaza Comics, a new
Electric Fighting Daughters - We've got some excellent new DVDs in stock for you, starting
with a new No Cut!! featuring three full hours of Sai Mari's lovely and
very erotic hardcore performance (region free) - Cocolo is a fabulously beautiful professional AV actress from
Japan, with a fantastic body and stylish sex -- see her new 2-DVD release
from HMP (region free) - For fans of bukkake, a fabulous new "Idol Semen" release from
the beautiful Chiharu Moritaka and Soft on Demand, not to be missed (region
free) - Yuna Akimoto is a fabulous lesbian nurse in a new installment
of Lesbian Hospital, from Deep's (region free) - Mariya Mai is an amazing new girl with a very small body and a
cute face, and you can see her great performance in a new Dogma release
(region free) - We have a new Waap Dream Shower DVD, featuring Juri Takahara's
extremely erotic bukkake action (region 2) - Finally we have a bunch of newly restocked items, including
Megumi Osawa's erotic Stars!! DVD offering, Nao Oikawa's very nice "Feel
the Breasts" and cosplay DVDs, fresh stock of Ichigo Milk's most popular
DVD works and more!
You can shop for unique products from Japan with many ways to pay for your orders. First, we accept credit cards (Visa/MC/Amex/Discover) through a secure server, which is the most popular method with our customers. Paypal is another very convenient way to pay for orders -- you sign up with the company and can make purchases using a credit card or checking account tied to your Paypal email address. Check or money orders are also cheerfully accepted, and cash is okay too, as long as you take precautions with it. For many international purchasers, we've found that postal money orders, which you can buy in US$ from any post office, are often the most trouble-free (and inexpensive) way to send money overseas. Finally, if you need it, Western Union is also an option. Let us know how we can serve you!
The J-Mate site has been updated yet again, with a new interview with the lovely Asai Honoka, conducted by another female (so it's real "girl talk"). You can also see reviews of many items we just happen to sell at J-List. The URL is http://www.jmate.com/
Monday, December 09, 2002
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Monday, December 02, 2002
Greetings from J-List December 2, 2002
Hello again from your friends in Japan at J-List!
The Japanese are very big on their four seasons, and have many customs that separate each season from the others. In the spring, people sit under cherry blossom trees and enjoy the fleeting beauty of the season of the sakura. In summer, it's time to don a yukata (cotton summer kimono) and enjoy Japan's festivals. In autumn, have a family barbecue in the mountains while enjoying the blazing colors of the turning leaves around you. In the winter, one of my personal favorite customs is sampling the new "nikuman" at convenience stores in Japan (pronounced "niku-mahn"). Nikuman is a kind of steamed Chinese bun with meat inside, and it's one of the most delicious foods you can eat when visiting Yokohama's famous Chinatown. The ones sold in convenience stores aren't quite as good, but they're hot and tasty nevertheless, and cheap at just 88 yen. Variations on the basic "beef and bread" nikuman dumplings include pizzaman (tomato sauce and cheese), anman (Japanese anko sweet beans), and curryman (curry-filled bread). The best nikuman can be found at convenience stores that carry Yamazaki baked goods, like Sun Every and Yamazaki Daily Store.
Some Japanese gestures are really cute. One famous gesture the Japanese make when having their picture taken is "peace" (also known as the V for Victory sign), which seems to be a national pasttime here. Unfortunately, none of the J-List staff has any idea why virtually all females, and many males, make this gesture -- it's just a cute Japanese thing, we guess. When Japanese get their picture taken, then say "cheese" just like in English. An alternate version is to say "what's one plus one?" (the answer in Japanese is "ni" and will result in a smile, the same as "cheese.")
It's always hard to be an expat and live in another country. No matter how long I live in Japan, I still feel that things from home are just plain "better." American medicine works the best for me, and there's nothing like American Cream of Wheat for breakfast on cold mornings -- I've turned my kids on to it, although my wife sticks her nose up at the stuff, since it looks like "okayu," a watery rice dish Japanese give to sick people. While there are many familiar things to an American living in Japan (McDonald's, Starbucks, Time Magazine), I don't think I could get by without the Internet to give me all the American culture I need. Amazon.com especially is a Godsend for someone like me -- a far cry from eleven years ago, when we had to scour the town to find a store that had some imported Pringles or Doritos, or travel to Tokyo to one of two bookstores that carried English books.
We seem to be experiencing some problems with our shopping cart system, a few users have had trouble checking out. If you find any problems with the J-List site, please email us about it right away, and remember that you can always use the secure email form (see link in the upper left hand corner of our site) to send order information in an emergency.
Announcing our first The Dog sale! For the month of December, you can get 25% off all our cute The Dog plush pets and other products by entering THEDOGSALE in the coupon field at checkout. The Dog plush pets, which feature big heads and super-cute "strange ratio" dimensions, are really great, and uniquely Japanese. And they make great gifts, too.
Also, for the month of December, we're happy to announce we'll give free shipping (for U.S./Canada -- international customers get half price on shipping) on all Peach Princess games! If you haven't completed your collection of excellent English-language love-sim games, now is a great time. As always, if you'd like more information on Japan's unique dating sim games, or a recommendation from our staff, just email us!
In order to help you help us reduce our stock of 2003 calendars, we've gone through and lowered prices on another two dozen of the items. We've still got a huge number of really excellent and unique calendars, including many that you'll treasure all year long, so please browse what we've got for you before the calendars you want are taken.
For the new update, we've got a great selection of new products from Japan for you, including:
For our adult customers, we've got many new 18+ products. They include:
Remember that J-List carries that great symbol of Japanese wacky pop culture, the Hello Kitty Vibrating Shoulder Massager, which is of course intended as massager for your neck and shoulders, although some would call it a Hello Kitty vibrator. A licensed Sanrio item sold only in Japan, the unit features high and low massage modes, and a beautiful image of Kitty and her rabbit friend. It looks just great, in or out of case -- display it as the objet d'art de culture populaire that it is. Why not get a few, and give them out as gifts? We can get them to you in time for Christmas with time to spare via airmail or EMS.
The Japanese are very big on their four seasons, and have many customs that separate each season from the others. In the spring, people sit under cherry blossom trees and enjoy the fleeting beauty of the season of the sakura. In summer, it's time to don a yukata (cotton summer kimono) and enjoy Japan's festivals. In autumn, have a family barbecue in the mountains while enjoying the blazing colors of the turning leaves around you. In the winter, one of my personal favorite customs is sampling the new "nikuman" at convenience stores in Japan (pronounced "niku-mahn"). Nikuman is a kind of steamed Chinese bun with meat inside, and it's one of the most delicious foods you can eat when visiting Yokohama's famous Chinatown. The ones sold in convenience stores aren't quite as good, but they're hot and tasty nevertheless, and cheap at just 88 yen. Variations on the basic "beef and bread" nikuman dumplings include pizzaman (tomato sauce and cheese), anman (Japanese anko sweet beans), and curryman (curry-filled bread). The best nikuman can be found at convenience stores that carry Yamazaki baked goods, like Sun Every and Yamazaki Daily Store.
Some Japanese gestures are really cute. One famous gesture the Japanese make when having their picture taken is "peace" (also known as the V for Victory sign), which seems to be a national pasttime here. Unfortunately, none of the J-List staff has any idea why virtually all females, and many males, make this gesture -- it's just a cute Japanese thing, we guess. When Japanese get their picture taken, then say "cheese" just like in English. An alternate version is to say "what's one plus one?" (the answer in Japanese is "ni" and will result in a smile, the same as "cheese.")
It's always hard to be an expat and live in another country. No matter how long I live in Japan, I still feel that things from home are just plain "better." American medicine works the best for me, and there's nothing like American Cream of Wheat for breakfast on cold mornings -- I've turned my kids on to it, although my wife sticks her nose up at the stuff, since it looks like "okayu," a watery rice dish Japanese give to sick people. While there are many familiar things to an American living in Japan (McDonald's, Starbucks, Time Magazine), I don't think I could get by without the Internet to give me all the American culture I need. Amazon.com especially is a Godsend for someone like me -- a far cry from eleven years ago, when we had to scour the town to find a store that had some imported Pringles or Doritos, or travel to Tokyo to one of two bookstores that carried English books.
We seem to be experiencing some problems with our shopping cart system, a few users have had trouble checking out. If you find any problems with the J-List site, please email us about it right away, and remember that you can always use the secure email form (see link in the upper left hand corner of our site) to send order information in an emergency.
Announcing our first The Dog sale! For the month of December, you can get 25% off all our cute The Dog plush pets and other products by entering THEDOGSALE in the coupon field at checkout. The Dog plush pets, which feature big heads and super-cute "strange ratio" dimensions, are really great, and uniquely Japanese. And they make great gifts, too.
Also, for the month of December, we're happy to announce we'll give free shipping (for U.S./Canada -- international customers get half price on shipping) on all Peach Princess games! If you haven't completed your collection of excellent English-language love-sim games, now is a great time. As always, if you'd like more information on Japan's unique dating sim games, or a recommendation from our staff, just email us!
In order to help you help us reduce our stock of 2003 calendars, we've gone through and lowered prices on another two dozen of the items. We've still got a huge number of really excellent and unique calendars, including many that you'll treasure all year long, so please browse what we've got for you before the calendars you want are taken.
For the new update, we've got a great selection of new products from Japan for you, including:
- First of all, we've got some great and wacky things in time for Christmas, including a cute "Christmas Reindeer" figure and soft reindeer antlers, great for your Christmas party o Also very cool, enjoy a new plush Haro toy for Gundam fans, and some extremely rare Yujin capsule toys o Also for Gundam lovers, fresh stock of the large-size deluxe Haro, a working alarm clock based on the famous Gundam robot that's just great o We love cute Japanese containers, things to put other things in, and we've got some nice items, including a Japanese bag with funny French on it, a soft portable phone case, and more o For lovers of top-notch Japanese Race Queens, enjoy the new Best of Race Queen photobook that we have o Enjoy elegant and beautiful photobooks by Japanese models like Noriko Sagara, very beautiful to look at and enjoy o For Morning Musume fans, we've been able to get limited stock of the Pocky and Pretz for Mo-Musu fans, which comes with a cute dual-faced mirror o Also for snack fans, find new ochazuke and furikake (delicious foods to put on rice), miso soup, new flavors of ramune candy, delicious "Gravel Choco" (chocolate that looks like rocks), and more o For fans of rare Hello Kitty items, we've got a cool stackable "juubako" bento box, as well as fresh stock of many items, including Hello Kitty cake mix, the best-selling Hello Kitty shoulder massagers o We love Hamtaro at J-List, and have some nice items for you, including a new Hamtaro figure-and-toy set, Hamtaro Hiragana Carta (a Japanese game in which you can learn hiragana), and more o Also for hamster fans, we've got some cute "ramen and chopstick erasers" o Finally, we've got new Japanese funny signs, a traditional way to clean your ears, Japanese style, new bento and chopstick items including the popular Hamster Bento Set, and more!
For our adult customers, we've got many new 18+ products. They include:
Remember that J-List carries that great symbol of Japanese wacky pop culture, the Hello Kitty Vibrating Shoulder Massager, which is of course intended as massager for your neck and shoulders, although some would call it a Hello Kitty vibrator. A licensed Sanrio item sold only in Japan, the unit features high and low massage modes, and a beautiful image of Kitty and her rabbit friend. It looks just great, in or out of case -- display it as the objet d'art de culture populaire that it is. Why not get a few, and give them out as gifts? We can get them to you in time for Christmas with time to spare via airmail or EMS.
Saturday, November 30, 2002
Greetings from J-List November 30, 2002
Hello again from Japan, where the American shampoo Pert is marketed under the product name Rejoy.
It's customary for various regions around Japan to choose a "meibutsu" (literally "famous thing") which they use to promote their uniqueness. Sometimes it's a famous food: Fukushima Prefecture, north of Tokyo, pushes its delicious northern-style ramen, while Nagoya is famous for curry udon, thick noodles in a curry soup (it's great). Our town, Isesaki, is famous for hand-woven silk fabric used to make kimono, and Takasaki, one town over, is famous for hand-made Daruma statues which are used to bring good luck on New Year's Day. Several towns around Japan have a unique angle on self-promotion, with "fertility festivals" that celebrate fertility and, well, the male sex organ. There's a great video posted by our friends at TokyoDV which shows all the sights and sounds of the amazing "Steel Phallus" festival in Kawasaki (Quicktime required). Seeing people carrying a shrine shaped like a male organ through the streets is not something you see every day. The URL is http://www.tokyodv.com/culture/FertilityFestival.html
Sometimes in Japan there are things that defy explanation. For some reason, most of the people who live near our house in Japan have the same last name as us -- Yanai -- despite the fact that they're not related to us in any way. On this month's "kairanban" (a kind of revolving newsletter that goes to everyone in our immediate neighborhood; when one family reads it, the put a check by their name and take it to the next house on the list), I noticed that 11 out of 19 were named Yanai, all of them apparently unrelated. My repeated questions as to how this could be go unanswered. About a kilometer away, there's a patch of houses with families whose last names are all Hosoi, but they, too, are not related to each other. It's one of the mysteries of living in a small town in rural Japan, I guess.
For the weekend update, we've got a great slew of items for you, including rare Hello Kitty items from Japan, with a great item that your kids (or you) will love, a cute High School Jenny doll from Takara, fashionable and fun accessories from Japan, a super item for Ultraman fans, delicious snack items, "green tea" bath tablets, bento related items, fresh stock of anime toys including Totoro music boxes and plush toys, Japan-only Hot Wheels, and more. For our adult customers, enjoy new magazines, including several cool hardcore items and a "photobook magazine" devoted entirely to the lovely Maiko Kazano, new photobooks and other items, some super erotic manga as well as a dozen or so restocked books, fresh stock of popular yaoi books, a dynamite 2003 G-Taste Daily Calendar that we just got in, several excellent new DVDs including fetish items we've been searching for for years, and more!
The J-Mate site has been updated, with new reviews of the fun "Blue" underwater fetish DVD series, as well as Soft on Demand's interesting "darkness fetish" DVD release as well. J-Mate is a great place to browse through product reviews and interviews in English with Japanese AV actresses. The URL is http://www.jmate.com/ Remember that we're always interested in getting your reviews of products for posting to the site!
At J-List, we carry dozens and dozens of English-translated "bishoujo" games, i.e. Japanese interactive love-sim games. We've dropped the price of two of our favorite games, Legend of Fairies and Fairy Nights, a two-part game that features great artwork by Mercy Rabbit, an artist that has been very popular at J-List over the years. Each game is now just $9.95, and they work on all Windows systems and Macintosh (System 7.x-9.x, classic mode in OS X supported). For Mac users, OS X versions of the games are planned, and the upgrade will be free when they're ready.
Remember, too, that we have FREE SHIPPING on all G-Collections games this month, but this month is almost over. Why not browse our bishoujo game list and see which ones you'd like to add to your collection? We've also got the brand-new Private Nurse in stock, a great new English-language love-sim game that's fully uncensored and features beautiful graphics.
It's customary for various regions around Japan to choose a "meibutsu" (literally "famous thing") which they use to promote their uniqueness. Sometimes it's a famous food: Fukushima Prefecture, north of Tokyo, pushes its delicious northern-style ramen, while Nagoya is famous for curry udon, thick noodles in a curry soup (it's great). Our town, Isesaki, is famous for hand-woven silk fabric used to make kimono, and Takasaki, one town over, is famous for hand-made Daruma statues which are used to bring good luck on New Year's Day. Several towns around Japan have a unique angle on self-promotion, with "fertility festivals" that celebrate fertility and, well, the male sex organ. There's a great video posted by our friends at TokyoDV which shows all the sights and sounds of the amazing "Steel Phallus" festival in Kawasaki (Quicktime required). Seeing people carrying a shrine shaped like a male organ through the streets is not something you see every day. The URL is http://www.tokyodv.com/culture/FertilityFestival.html
Sometimes in Japan there are things that defy explanation. For some reason, most of the people who live near our house in Japan have the same last name as us -- Yanai -- despite the fact that they're not related to us in any way. On this month's "kairanban" (a kind of revolving newsletter that goes to everyone in our immediate neighborhood; when one family reads it, the put a check by their name and take it to the next house on the list), I noticed that 11 out of 19 were named Yanai, all of them apparently unrelated. My repeated questions as to how this could be go unanswered. About a kilometer away, there's a patch of houses with families whose last names are all Hosoi, but they, too, are not related to each other. It's one of the mysteries of living in a small town in rural Japan, I guess.
For the weekend update, we've got a great slew of items for you, including rare Hello Kitty items from Japan, with a great item that your kids (or you) will love, a cute High School Jenny doll from Takara, fashionable and fun accessories from Japan, a super item for Ultraman fans, delicious snack items, "green tea" bath tablets, bento related items, fresh stock of anime toys including Totoro music boxes and plush toys, Japan-only Hot Wheels, and more. For our adult customers, enjoy new magazines, including several cool hardcore items and a "photobook magazine" devoted entirely to the lovely Maiko Kazano, new photobooks and other items, some super erotic manga as well as a dozen or so restocked books, fresh stock of popular yaoi books, a dynamite 2003 G-Taste Daily Calendar that we just got in, several excellent new DVDs including fetish items we've been searching for for years, and more!
The J-Mate site has been updated, with new reviews of the fun "Blue" underwater fetish DVD series, as well as Soft on Demand's interesting "darkness fetish" DVD release as well. J-Mate is a great place to browse through product reviews and interviews in English with Japanese AV actresses. The URL is http://www.jmate.com/ Remember that we're always interested in getting your reviews of products for posting to the site!
At J-List, we carry dozens and dozens of English-translated "bishoujo" games, i.e. Japanese interactive love-sim games. We've dropped the price of two of our favorite games, Legend of Fairies and Fairy Nights, a two-part game that features great artwork by Mercy Rabbit, an artist that has been very popular at J-List over the years. Each game is now just $9.95, and they work on all Windows systems and Macintosh (System 7.x-9.x, classic mode in OS X supported). For Mac users, OS X versions of the games are planned, and the upgrade will be free when they're ready.
Remember, too, that we have FREE SHIPPING on all G-Collections games this month, but this month is almost over. Why not browse our bishoujo game list and see which ones you'd like to add to your collection? We've also got the brand-new Private Nurse in stock, a great new English-language love-sim game that's fully uncensored and features beautiful graphics.
Thursday, November 28, 2002
Greetings from J-List November 28, 2002
Hello and happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Thanksgiving is a very American holiday, and when you live in another country as I do, it's frankly hard to keep in the spirit all the time. Turkey is all but unheard of in Japan, unless you order it through companies that import food for the foreign community, and even if you get your hands on some turkey, most Japanese homes don't have ovens, so it'd be impossible to cook it. Most of us take the easy way out and get a bucket of KFC, which is delicious and easy to buy. We all have many things to give thanks for in the world, our health and the loved ones around us -- I know all of us at J-List feel especially blessed and thankful for all that we have. We wish everyone reading this, both in the U.S. and all over the world, a happy and warm special day!
One of my favorite entries in the You've Been in Japan Too Long When list (found at http://www.peterpayne.net) is, "You've been in Japan too long when 'natsukashii' comes out of your mouth instead of 'what you're saying makes me so nostalgic that I must look like one of those wide-eyed manga characters with a tear rolling out of my eye.' Natsukashii, a Japanese word which could be translated as "nostalgic," is a fun word that comes up quite a bit in anime. Basically, when you see something that reminds you of the fond memories of your youth, give it a try. It's pronounced NOTS-ka-SHEE.
One thing you learn when you study a language like Japanese, is that a meaning in one language will not necessarily match up with meanings in other languages perfectly. In English, there is one concept for the word "cold," but in Japanese, there are two, one for coldness in the air (samui) and one for something that's cold to the touch (tsumetai). Getting these two concepts down is always difficult for learners of Japanese, just as learning the genders in nouns in Romance languages is difficult. When you learn very a basic word like "life" in another language, you realize how difficult it can be to match meanings of some concepts up with their counterparts in other languages -- some of the words used in Japanese which correspond with the English word include "seikatsu" (which means a person's life, as in, a new life in a new city), "jinsei" (which is a person's life, from their birth to their death), and "seimei" (the biological fact of life, and also used for life insurance). Implementing the Chinese character for "life" was evidently difficult for the Japanese, too, and as a result, this character has many possible pronunciations, compared with most characters, which have two pronunciations (one Japanese and one Chinese). To see this character for yourself, click here: http://www.jlist.com/c2/life.jpg
A potential problem with the "top 5" links on the J-List site has been fixed. Before, clicking on the links when using some browsers, customers could find themselves diverted to strange URLs that didn't exist. Please let us know if you experience any problems with the site!
For the new update, we've got tons of cool items for you, including many nice items that would be great for Christmas gifts, including:
For our adult customers, we've got many new 18+ products. They include:
J-List sells many interesting items from Japan, including our trademark "funny Japanese T-shirts" which are printed in the USA and come in all sizes, from small all the way up to XXXL. Our most popular T-shirt by far is the "Looking for a Japanese Girlfriend," which outsells all other shirts, followed by "Dirty American Devil" "Confident in my Sexual Power" and "I am a Pervert" shirts. Up and coming is the very popular shirt "Respect the Emperor, Expel the Foreign Barbarians." All shirts are 100% cotton and all sizes are stocked, for speedy shipment to you! And yes, we can get your shirts to you by Christmas with time to spare.
One of my favorite entries in the You've Been in Japan Too Long When list (found at http://www.peterpayne.net) is, "You've been in Japan too long when 'natsukashii' comes out of your mouth instead of 'what you're saying makes me so nostalgic that I must look like one of those wide-eyed manga characters with a tear rolling out of my eye.' Natsukashii, a Japanese word which could be translated as "nostalgic," is a fun word that comes up quite a bit in anime. Basically, when you see something that reminds you of the fond memories of your youth, give it a try. It's pronounced NOTS-ka-SHEE.
One thing you learn when you study a language like Japanese, is that a meaning in one language will not necessarily match up with meanings in other languages perfectly. In English, there is one concept for the word "cold," but in Japanese, there are two, one for coldness in the air (samui) and one for something that's cold to the touch (tsumetai). Getting these two concepts down is always difficult for learners of Japanese, just as learning the genders in nouns in Romance languages is difficult. When you learn very a basic word like "life" in another language, you realize how difficult it can be to match meanings of some concepts up with their counterparts in other languages -- some of the words used in Japanese which correspond with the English word include "seikatsu" (which means a person's life, as in, a new life in a new city), "jinsei" (which is a person's life, from their birth to their death), and "seimei" (the biological fact of life, and also used for life insurance). Implementing the Chinese character for "life" was evidently difficult for the Japanese, too, and as a result, this character has many possible pronunciations, compared with most characters, which have two pronunciations (one Japanese and one Chinese). To see this character for yourself, click here: http://www.jlist.com/c2/life.jpg
A potential problem with the "top 5" links on the J-List site has been fixed. Before, clicking on the links when using some browsers, customers could find themselves diverted to strange URLs that didn't exist. Please let us know if you experience any problems with the site!
For the new update, we've got tons of cool items for you, including many nice items that would be great for Christmas gifts, including:
- First, we've gone through and lowered prices on a bunch more calendar items, making them even better buys -- we've got hundreds of great items in stock for you, so check them out now!
- Since Christmas is around the corner, we've got a huge volley of potential Christmas presents for your loved ones, staring with a super-cute set of robot plush dogs that we fell in love with
- For anyone fans of Tokyo Mew Mew, we've got the super-cute Tokyo Mew Mew costume sets, which feature the girls ears, cute chokers (necklaces) and tails -- they're great, from Takara
- Also for Tokyo Mew Mew fans, we've got a cute soft character figure set, so cool!
- Next we have limited stock of a fabulous Totoro apron that's really beautiful, a great gift for all fans of Hayao Miyazaki's classic film
- Then, for Snoopy fans,
- For fans of rare Star Wars items sold only in Japan, we've got the R2-D2 light saber game back in stock, as well as some of the last remaining stock of the Japan-only light saber (much cooler than what was sold in the U.S.)
- For fans of beautiful Japanese idols, enjoy photobook offerings by Wakana Sakai and Takako Uehara
- We carry many Japanese films on DVD with English subtitles, and we've got a new item for you: the riveting story of a hostage drama involving the Japan Red Army and the police trying to do battle with them (region 2)
- For Hello Kitty fans, we've got a great cardboard pen and pencil stand as well as other cute only-sold-in-Japan Hello Kitty items
- We've lowered our prices on all delicious Mousse Pocky, and added a fantastic new flavor: Blueberry Yogurt, a creamy and delicious Pocky that makes you think you're floating on a cloud
- Also for fans of Japanese foods, more furikake (food which you sprinkle on white rice) and new flavors of miso soup!
- For your kitchen, we have a handy Japanese soup bowl for miso soup, cute eating utensils for you or your children, and more!
- Finally, we've got a new bento set that has two levels for hefty eaters, Japanese onsen powder, great Japanese cotton ear cleaners, and more!
For our adult customers, we've got many new 18+ products. They include:
- For fans of Japanese adult magazines, we've got some nice items for you, including the new Junk, with many nice Japanese couples in love hotels
- Magazines with anal themes are always popular, and we've got an interesting new issue of "Anal Shower"
- We have some nice photobook items, including classic works shot by photographer Shin Yamagishi and a new "Chinkame" format photobook
- For hentai manga, we've got some excellent new items for you, including great erotic comics from AV Comics, Million Comics and more
- For erotic DVD fans, enjoy many new offerings, starting with "five super coquettish" women, including Ran Asakawa, in a fantastic lingerie paradise (region free)
- See the sexuality of "young wives" in a super new offering from E:Complex (region free)
- Enjoy the bukkake of Rika Uehara and Yukari Sakura in a new "How do you do, Mr. Semen?" from Soft on Demand (region free)
- SOD has an F1 racing team and a set of lovely SOD Racing Girls -- see the sexual lives of the lovely Nanase Nanami as a real Race Queen (region free)
- From Moodyz, a great "Semen Real Battle" in which ten red-hot AV actresses do battle with bukkake (region 2)
- Also, enjoy the sweet and erotic lesbian performances of Yayoi Yukino as only Moodyz can bring it (region 2)
- Finally, enjoy fresh stock of many nice adult works, including lesbian works from Aroma Planning, Hikari Kisugi's excellent 180 minute offering, restocking Bunko Kanazawa DVDs, and more!
J-List sells many interesting items from Japan, including our trademark "funny Japanese T-shirts" which are printed in the USA and come in all sizes, from small all the way up to XXXL. Our most popular T-shirt by far is the "Looking for a Japanese Girlfriend," which outsells all other shirts, followed by "Dirty American Devil" "Confident in my Sexual Power" and "I am a Pervert" shirts. Up and coming is the very popular shirt "Respect the Emperor, Expel the Foreign Barbarians." All shirts are 100% cotton and all sizes are stocked, for speedy shipment to you! And yes, we can get your shirts to you by Christmas with time to spare.
Friday, November 22, 2002
Greetings from J-List November 22, 2002
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Wednesday, November 20, 2002
Greetings from J-List November 20, 2002
Greetings and salutations from Japan, where it's said that if your middle toe is longer than your big toe, you'll go farther in life than your parents did.
The social phenomenon known as "kogals" -- Japanese girls who wear outrageous fashions, with blonde-dyed hair and silly elevator shoes and over-tanned bodies -- was one of the keywords of the late 1990's in Japan. Kogals themselves owe their origins to the fashion-conscious teen movement of the mid 90s called "Amulers," when every high school girl wanted to dress up like JPOP singer Namie Amuro. But nothing is as constant as change, and the concept of the classic kogal slowly morphed into other versions: mago-gal (literally "grandchild-gal"), a label used for junior high school girls who wanted to dress up in ridiculous fashions too; "gals," a softer, less brash version of the original kogals; one-gals (oh-NAY-gals), basically ultra-fashionable girls in their low to mid 20s; and yamanba (literally "mountain hags"), girls who tan themselves totally black then wear bizarre makeup. As the sun set on the old Kogal boom, even the trademark of their movement, the "print club" digital photo stickers, called "puri-kura" in Japanese, has faded: game centers in Tokyo which stocked nothing but the print club machines are hard to find, and you no longer have to wait in line to get use them. Every once in a while you see a remnant of the old kogal phenomenon, the "gal mama" -- girls who got pregnant in their kogal days and are still dressing up in outrageous furs and false eyelashes, even though they're pushing baby carriages now. Seeing two "gals" exchanging child-rearing tips while they put on their thick make-up can be quite a sight, and is a uniquely Japanese experience.
It sometimes seems to outsiders living here that Japan is a very death-oriented society. Don't give gifts in multiples of four because the number four is read "shi" in Japanese, which also means death. Don't put you chopsticks straight up in your rice, since that's only done as part of a ceremony for the dead. Likewise, don't sleep with your head facing north, as bodies about to be cremated are laid facing this direction. Yes for all the customs that have to do with death, nearly all of which spring from Japan's various versions of Buddhism, the Japanese have almost no concept of estate planning. As far as I can tell, virtually all the things we do in the States to prepare for the event of one's death, from writing wills to making living trusts to investigating how to avoid death taxes are not practiced here in Japan at all. Since my parents have some land that will be transferred to my wife's name at the time of their death, I brought the topic up with them once, but it seem like something you just don't talk about. Likewise, I asked our accountant to recommend some options we might want to keep in mind, but he said no one really did anything to prepare for death estate-wise. Even the concept of drafting a will is not really practiced here. Because all Japanese have strong "common sense" built into them, a natural sense for the "way things should be," wills are not necessary here. If I were to die, common sense dictates that my wife and children would receive my property, and this logic is rarely contested here.
For the mid-week update, we've got a great lineup of products for you from Japan, including:
For our adult customers, we've got many new 18+ products. They include:
Remember that we're having a "free shipping sale" on the G-Collections games this month (half price for orders outside the U.S. and Canada), making it a great time to complete your collection of these great games. And a little bird has told us that the newest game from the company, Private Nurse, will be coming in any day now. Preorder it now and be one of the first to get this super new Japanese love-sim game!
J-List sells wacky T-shirts with message like "I'm looking for a Japanese girlfriend" (our most popular shirt ever), "Your mother has a protruding navel" and so on. They're funny and wacky, and make great gifts, too. Why not browse our selection of T-shirts today? Because your satisfaction is important to us, J-List goes the extra distance for you, stocking a wide range of sizes (from small to XXXL for most shirts), so everyone can enjoy our fun Japanese T-shirts. They're printed in the USA and all sizes are full American sizes.
The social phenomenon known as "kogals" -- Japanese girls who wear outrageous fashions, with blonde-dyed hair and silly elevator shoes and over-tanned bodies -- was one of the keywords of the late 1990's in Japan. Kogals themselves owe their origins to the fashion-conscious teen movement of the mid 90s called "Amulers," when every high school girl wanted to dress up like JPOP singer Namie Amuro. But nothing is as constant as change, and the concept of the classic kogal slowly morphed into other versions: mago-gal (literally "grandchild-gal"), a label used for junior high school girls who wanted to dress up in ridiculous fashions too; "gals," a softer, less brash version of the original kogals; one-gals (oh-NAY-gals), basically ultra-fashionable girls in their low to mid 20s; and yamanba (literally "mountain hags"), girls who tan themselves totally black then wear bizarre makeup. As the sun set on the old Kogal boom, even the trademark of their movement, the "print club" digital photo stickers, called "puri-kura" in Japanese, has faded: game centers in Tokyo which stocked nothing but the print club machines are hard to find, and you no longer have to wait in line to get use them. Every once in a while you see a remnant of the old kogal phenomenon, the "gal mama" -- girls who got pregnant in their kogal days and are still dressing up in outrageous furs and false eyelashes, even though they're pushing baby carriages now. Seeing two "gals" exchanging child-rearing tips while they put on their thick make-up can be quite a sight, and is a uniquely Japanese experience.
It sometimes seems to outsiders living here that Japan is a very death-oriented society. Don't give gifts in multiples of four because the number four is read "shi" in Japanese, which also means death. Don't put you chopsticks straight up in your rice, since that's only done as part of a ceremony for the dead. Likewise, don't sleep with your head facing north, as bodies about to be cremated are laid facing this direction. Yes for all the customs that have to do with death, nearly all of which spring from Japan's various versions of Buddhism, the Japanese have almost no concept of estate planning. As far as I can tell, virtually all the things we do in the States to prepare for the event of one's death, from writing wills to making living trusts to investigating how to avoid death taxes are not practiced here in Japan at all. Since my parents have some land that will be transferred to my wife's name at the time of their death, I brought the topic up with them once, but it seem like something you just don't talk about. Likewise, I asked our accountant to recommend some options we might want to keep in mind, but he said no one really did anything to prepare for death estate-wise. Even the concept of drafting a will is not really practiced here. Because all Japanese have strong "common sense" built into them, a natural sense for the "way things should be," wills are not necessary here. If I were to die, common sense dictates that my wife and children would receive my property, and this logic is rarely contested here.
For the mid-week update, we've got a great lineup of products for you from Japan, including:
- First, for fans of our Japanese snacks, we've got the delicious Melty Kiss, a limited edition chocolate fudge snack sold only in the winter in Japan -- it's great
- Also, fresh stock of a popular item, Candy Bubbles, bubbles you can blow like soap bubbles, but these can be eaten!
- Cosplay is a national past time in Japan, and we've got a special two-volume cosplay photobook set that's extremely cool
- For fans of high-quality anime statues, we've got a superb cold cast statue of Maetel, from Galaxy Express 999, an incredible item from Epoch
- For fans of Japan's charming swimsuit idols, go to Rome, Italy with the lovely Yumiko Shaku in her new photobook with DVD (region 2)
- See a great photobook by former child idol (now grown into a "sexy idol") Yumi Adachi, a rare and special item
- For bento fans, we've got a new deluxe bento set (everything you need in one package), as well as fresh stock of some other popular bento box items
- If you love Doraemon, the most popular anime character ever according to a recent Japanese poll, we've got a great alarm clock
- For fans of our Totoro music boxes, we've got another one for you, this one based on a picture from the ending credits of the famous film
- We've got a dynamite Hello Kitty mug that's beautiful, as well as fresh stock of some cool Hello Kitty products available only from Japan
- Finally see many other nifty items from Japan, including a wood tissue holder, a funny pencil case,
For our adult customers, we've got many new 18+ products. They include:
- For fans of beautiful Japanese women with large breasts, we've got the new Gal's Dee, featuring many fabulous women, D cup and larger
- Other popular magazine items include love hotel and amateur magazines featuring authentic Japanese amateur kogals and "hitozuma" (married women)
- For fans of our discount magazines, we've added several new items to our "Under $7" page -- check out these reduced price items
- For fans that want AV samples with their magazines, enjoy the new issue of MPEG Indies, which features a full color magazine and two Video CDs (playable on computer or in most DVD players), a great bargain
- For photobook fans, some great items, including fresh stock of Anna Ohura's best-selling iNude, and Maiko Yuki's super hardcover photobook "Maiko"
- For hentai manga fans we have another great selection of new works for you, including beautiful large breast fetish, female teacher, tentacle sex, bukkake and other fetish themes
- It's a great day for Mai Hagiwara fans, because we have not one but two killer new DVD releases by her -- the first is Front Mirukuru, and allows you to go on a virtual date with Mai to the beautiful island of Saipan (region free)
- Then enjoy Back Mirukuru, another fantastic soft porn erotic release featuring Mai at her all-time sexiest, an incredible sight to behold (region free)
- We've got the final installment of Blue, the beautiful underwater fetish, featuring Takako Nagashima giving you a "sweet kiss in the water" (region free)
- For Ami Ayukawa lovers, enjoy a staggering 4 hours of her best performances in a new Max File presentation (region free)
- Ryo Aihara and Chika Kobayashi battle it out to see who has the most beautiful breasts in a super "coupling" by Soft on Demand (region free)
- Enjoy the mature eroticism of Miyuki Hourai in a great offering from SOD in which she shows her extreme experience for you (region free)
- Finally, a great restock of DVDs, including Ai Kurosawa and Hitomi Hayasaka Re-MIX (3 hours each), the popular Temptation Lesbian 2, and more!
Remember that we're having a "free shipping sale" on the G-Collections games this month (half price for orders outside the U.S. and Canada), making it a great time to complete your collection of these great games. And a little bird has told us that the newest game from the company, Private Nurse, will be coming in any day now. Preorder it now and be one of the first to get this super new Japanese love-sim game!
J-List sells wacky T-shirts with message like "I'm looking for a Japanese girlfriend" (our most popular shirt ever), "Your mother has a protruding navel" and so on. They're funny and wacky, and make great gifts, too. Why not browse our selection of T-shirts today? Because your satisfaction is important to us, J-List goes the extra distance for you, stocking a wide range of sizes (from small to XXXL for most shirts), so everyone can enjoy our fun Japanese T-shirts. They're printed in the USA and all sizes are full American sizes.
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