Hello again from your friends in Japan, J-List!
The Japanese approach to family structure is very different than in the U.S. In Japan, a family has a "jikka" or "real house," where their parents live. At certain times during the year, mainly New Years' Day and Obon, a holiday that's kind of a cross between Thanksgiving and Halloween, people return to their jikka to be with family. Usually the oldest son is the one who stays with his parents, taking over the family business if there is one. My wife is an only child, so there was a lot of expectation for her to remain in her house, despite the fact that she wanted to live in America. When I married her, it was expected that we would live in the house and "see to things" (including taking care of my wife's parents as they grow older).
My mother and nephew stayed with us for a week, and it was interesting hearing some of their observations about Japan. My nephew, a typical 12-year-old Pokemon-loving teenager, was interested in many things, too, from the way they play Auld Lang Sine in stores when it's time to close (so you know to hurry up and leave) to stoplights that are horizontally oriented instead of vertically, as they are in the States. My mother, who is really into strict bedtimes for children, was aghast to see my kids staying up til 10 pm most nights. It's a different paradigm -- in Japan, kids don't really have bedtimes, but go to sleep when they are sleepy. It's aided by the fact that Japan's day is about 2 hours later than the U.S. -- school starts at 9 am, not at 7 am, as it did for me, and people usually from 10 to 6, not from 9 to 5. So it all works out.
For this evening's update, we've got some extra-special items in store for you, including:
First, we've got several excellent new magazines, including the excellent new Penthouse Japan and Penthouse Special, not one but two issues of Iketeru Peach-Ass Girl, and another of those cool magazines that show embarrassing photos of Japanese idols
For photobook fans, we've got some excellent items, including the new Tennyo, featuring the lovely Yoshinaga Mika as photographed by Miyazawa Masaaki, and the incredibly erotic Strawberry Diary 2, by the famous Aida Garo
We've got fresh stock of several sold-out photobooks, including the very cool "From the bathroom with love," the sultry Honjoh Sayuri's "Bedrooms" and Ikeno Hitomi's sizzling S&M photobook
For fans of amateur Japanese girls, check out Gal's Special, featuring all-amateur content in a great all-color format
For hentai manga lovers, we've got some excellent new postings, along with fresh stock of several extremely popular manga offerings that had been sold out and backordered for a long time -- check out out always well-stocked manga pages now
If you like erotic doujinshi, we've got two cool ones for you, both based on Love Hina, the popular new anime
Yaoi fans should check out the two "boy's love anthology" items we've posted for you, each featuring a great collection of yaoi artwork and themes
For erotic DVD and doujinshi fans alike, we've got a cool item: Street Fucker, a 120 minute DVD filled with all parody Street Fighter live-action costume play sex, starring the very pretty Shirakawa Narumi as Chun Li, Sakura and the STII characters
For AV fans, we've got two great videos for you -- the charming Tomosaki Rin in "I'll Give You Help Onanie" (female-assisted masturbation) and Fujisaki Ayaka in a fantastic breast-fetish video "A-Class Busty Criminal"
The extremely popular G-Taste series continues in the latest G-Taste DVD, the Kannazuki Mai Edition
One of the most requested anime items on J-List has been the Love Hina anime series, and we're happy to announce that you can order the Love Hina DVDs on our Anime DVD page. This is a wonderful anime based on one of the most popular manga in years, and we think it's really cool
For fans of the popular game Kanon, we've got the official Kanon Trading Card Game version 2.0 in stock
Speaking of Kanon, check out the Kanon Personal Phone Strap on the anime & toys page, before it's gone, along with several other cool things for fans of Ultraman and Yamato
We have two excellent flavors of Lotte's Xylitol chewing gum on the Japanese gum page. Xylitol is a new product from Finland that promotes tooth health, and this is a great-tasting gum from Japan that incorporates it. In Blueberry Yogurt and Orange Soda flavor!
We've got a nutty item for you on our Japanese stickers & signs page -- Super Buddha! We guarantee that if you put this on your car, you'll be unique
Finally, our always-fun Wacky Things from Japan pages have been updated weather real Japanese subway map; a "stick-free" rice scoop with holder, great for anyone who eats Japanese-style rice; a cooling "relax mask" that reduces puffiness around your eyes; a deluxe keychain that makes losing your keys very difficult; and the only stainless steel drinking cup you'll ever need.
Over the years, we've carried many interesting products, including Japan's unique bishoujo (aka hentai) games in English. One of the first companies to translate these games into English was Otaku Publishing of the UK, and when they stopped selling the games, we bought the last of their stock. That stock is nearly gone now -- Return to Paradise Heights is down to the last 25 copies or so. So if you haven't played this classic game and want to, get it fast!
Tuesday, April 10, 2001
Monday, April 02, 2001
Greetings from J-List April 2, 2001
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Wednesday, March 28, 2001
Greetings from J-List March 28, 2001
Greetings once again from Japan, where we've taken time out from tinkering with Mac OS X to bring you another (hopefully) interesting update!
An interesting aspect of the Japanese language is that there are multiple words for "you" and "I," and which one you use speaks volumes about how you perceive yourself. The basic word for I is "watashi" but not used all that much. Words that boys usually use are "boku" (a soft word, usually polite) or "ore" (a rougher word, which can be rude depending on the setting you use it in). A girl who is somewhat tomboyish might use the former, or if she's really tough, she might even use the latter; similarly, a young boy (like my son) might show how grown-up he is by using "ore." The "girl's" word for I is "atashi," and a homosexual speaking in an effeminate manner would use this word for himself. Words for you include "anata" (a somewhat formal word, it's also used by a wife when addressing her husband), "kimi" (a close term, used among friends) or the rougher "omae," used when talking down to someone, or among male friend showing their manliness.
When foreign visitors come to Japan, one observation make is that there's not that much that's written in English. I speak and read Japanese, so I don't think about it much, but it's true -- there are many times when Japanese aren't considerate enough of English-speaking visitors. At least there are many English newspapers to choose from in Japan. The most famous is the Japan Times, which has a long history -- I used to read old newsreels from the World War II years, when I worked in the library back in my SDSU days. I prefer the Daily Yomiuri, however, which has an interesting feature: they cycle in opinion pages from the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Independant, for a variety of interesting viewpoints from the U.S. and Europe.
For tonight's update, we've got some truly excellent items for you, including:
Remember that J-List has a full line of unique and interesting snack foods, from traditional Japanese Pocky to Gummi Pikachu to the excellent Crunky Crunch Chocolate. Check out our excellent items now!
An interesting aspect of the Japanese language is that there are multiple words for "you" and "I," and which one you use speaks volumes about how you perceive yourself. The basic word for I is "watashi" but not used all that much. Words that boys usually use are "boku" (a soft word, usually polite) or "ore" (a rougher word, which can be rude depending on the setting you use it in). A girl who is somewhat tomboyish might use the former, or if she's really tough, she might even use the latter; similarly, a young boy (like my son) might show how grown-up he is by using "ore." The "girl's" word for I is "atashi," and a homosexual speaking in an effeminate manner would use this word for himself. Words for you include "anata" (a somewhat formal word, it's also used by a wife when addressing her husband), "kimi" (a close term, used among friends) or the rougher "omae," used when talking down to someone, or among male friend showing their manliness.
When foreign visitors come to Japan, one observation make is that there's not that much that's written in English. I speak and read Japanese, so I don't think about it much, but it's true -- there are many times when Japanese aren't considerate enough of English-speaking visitors. At least there are many English newspapers to choose from in Japan. The most famous is the Japan Times, which has a long history -- I used to read old newsreels from the World War II years, when I worked in the library back in my SDSU days. I prefer the Daily Yomiuri, however, which has an interesting feature: they cycle in opinion pages from the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Independant, for a variety of interesting viewpoints from the U.S. and Europe.
For tonight's update, we've got some truly excellent items for you, including:
- First, we've got two positively wonderful magazines from you: the new Gokuh and Bejean, both oversized and filled with lovely Japanese angels, like Hagiwara Mai and Ohura Anna -- very nice!
- For photobook lovers, we've got some excellent items for you, including a great selection of our popular leg, stocking and "low angle" photobooks, and some great high school uniform photobooks
- For dojinshi fans, we've got limited stock of some excellent all-new items
- If you are a manga lover, of course we've got new erotic wide manga from Japan for you, including several all-new manga offerings by Hit and several other comic houses
- For fans of Japan's erotic DVDs, we've got a super DVD in the "Pure" series, featuring three lovely contemporary Japanese girls who express their sexuality in really interesting ways
- For collectors of region 2 encoded DVDs, a superb item featuring 120 minutes with six lovely AV stars, including Yoshino Sally, Suzuki Manami and Komuro Yuri
- For fans of our popular discount videos pages, some great titles from the J-List vault, including some Miura Aika and Yoshikawa Minami -- all with free SAL shipping!
- For Japanese idol card fans, fresh stock of the Bururun Club II series
- We've got fresh stock of some of our popular Wacky items, including wooden Japanese signs (our most popular is "It is forbidden to urinate here"), and more blank Japanese vocabulary study cards
- A neat new item Wacky Things from Japan page, a collection of highly useful zippered pouches, which you can use to protect your camera, CD player, or any similar device
- We've got limited stock of the very cool Domo-kun phone/camera strap on the anime toys page
- For Japanese snack & food fans, two delicious boil-in-bag spaghetti sauces: pasta cream (mmm), and "bongore bianco" (I know I've got that spelled wrong, I've never seen the word written in anything but Japanese ^^), complete with delicious clams!
- We have a very nice Hello Kitty letter and postcard set on the Cute Wacky Things page
- Finally, look for beautiful stickers from the Edo period, Japanese sushi decorative grass, a super item for cleaning your shoes, and the ultimate room freshener for those who like to read...
Remember that J-List has a full line of unique and interesting snack foods, from traditional Japanese Pocky to Gummi Pikachu to the excellent Crunky Crunch Chocolate. Check out our excellent items now!
Monday, March 26, 2001
Greetings from J-List March 26, 2001
Hello again from J-List
Breakfast cereal is one of the major staple foods in the U.S., and it's slowly growing in popularity here in Japan, too. It was slow going, though -- Japanese consumers preferred Japanese food, like fish, miso soup and natto (fermented soybeans), to what looked to them like "bird seed." Now, several brands of cereal compete for share the Japanese cereal market, lead by Kellogg's, who markets Corn Flake, Corn Frosty, Choko-wa (chocolate loops), and All-Bran. Unfortunately, Kellogg's products are very expensive here -- about $4 for a box that contains only 2-3 American-sized bowls of cereal, so I usually choose Ciscorn or Calbee's cereal products. Amazingly, Japan is a huge consumer of rice, but no one sells Rice Crispies or a copycat product here.
Japanese is an interesting language grammatically. In Japanese, you have various "particles" which you use to mark words -- a subject particle, an object particle, and so on. Related to this are the many Japanese "counters" you use to count things. There are hundreds of these counters, each used with different kinds of objects. To count thin, flat objects like cards or sheets of paper, you use "mai" (e.g. ichi mai, ni mai, san mai). To count long, cylindrical objects like an umbrella, you use "hon" (ippon, ni hon). There are special counters for birds (wa), small animals like dogs (hiki), larger animals like cows (tou), and so on -- similar to words like "gaggle" "herd" and "flock" in English, but extended to virtually all countable nouns. It's quite fun to try to learn them all.
Japan had a large quake on Saturday which destroyed thousands of homes and left several dead around Hiroshima and Ehime Prefecture, on the smallest Japanese island of Shikoku. J-List is about 1500 km from Hiroshima, so we were quite far from the damage -- I didn't even know about the quake until I read it in the Daily Yomiuri. It was a terrible tragedy, but we're glad there wasn't more loss of life.
We had some server problems on Saturday, Japan time, which resulted in the shopping cart not adding items that were added to the cart properly. We are very sorry for for the inconvenience. The site is working fine now, and we think the problem are over, but if you have any problems with the J-List cart, you can order via our secure email form at https://rook.axnet.net/pages/virtual/jlist/orderjlist_secure.html . Currently, most of the larger images have been removed from the server to keep he drive from filling up while we move servers, so please use "thumbnail view" when browsing the J-List site.
For the new update, we've added some excellent items for you, including
First, some excellent adult magazines from Japan, including the stellar new issues of Penthouse Japan and Penthouse Special, a super new Gal's Dee for fans of busty Japanese girls, and the very erotic amateur magazine High-Teen Nessha Boy
For photobook fans, we have A5 format color photobook of the popular CD-ROM series Yellows 2.0, Yellows 3.0 ~ China and Yellows 1.0 ~ Americans, which are mostly out of print
Als for photobook lovers, a special item: From the Bathroom with Love, which contains fabulous nude shots of Japan's most famous AV gals, but also pictures of their own homes with maps to their homes -- features virtually every popular AV girl in Japan today
For bondage and discipline lovers, an interesting magazine + dual Video CD sampler item with footage from Brain Trust and others
We have two excellent new dojinshi in stock for you: the very sexy 12 Kaiten, an exploration in Japanese "waitress fetishism," and Energya's fabulous new collection of hentai Sailor Moon
We've got a bunch of excellent erotic manga that have been posted, with many new all-new volumes, including books from IC, Do and Oak Comix -- also a super new issue of Electric Fighting Daughters, the "game girl" hentai parody dojinshi anthology manga
Also for manga fans, we have fresh stock of the truly excellent Paradise Lost erotic dojinshi anthologies from Fusion Product
For DVD lovers, another excellent re-issue DVD for fans of classic gals -- Ozawa madoka's sexy "18 Dreams"
Also for DVD fans, we've posted the Masterpiece of SOD collection DVD, which features killer samples from 64 titles released between May and August of 2000
If you love the pure and virginal Minori Aoi, check out her "Lucky Creamy Girl" video offering, from the famous Uchu Kikaku, on our video pages
From Soft on Demand's Deep's label, an excellent compilation video featuring 120 minutes of their excellent tekoki, cosplay and other video works
For fans of Takara's very lovely Licca-chan doll series, we've got a cool set of keychains featuring Licca dressed for a summer festival -- Asakura Licca-chan -- on the anime & toys page
We've got fresh stock of one of my favorite foods from Japan, konnyaku jelly, on the Japanese snacks and food page. Konnyaku is a vegetable-based food that is very solid and firm, and is used as a diet food here because it fills you up while providing very few calories. Check out our konnyaku jelly items before we sell out again
Also on the snacks page, a delicious new twist on furikake: kimchee flavor (yum)
We've got several very cute things for you for the Wacky Things from Japan (cute stuff) page, including two new Hello Kitty chopsticks, and a really nice set of Kitty-chan bags of different sizes -- great for giving gifts or eating your lunch
We've got two sets of lovely collectible cards for you -- for lovely idol fans, the deluxe and very popular swimsuit and high school uniform cards of Nagai Luna, and for anime fans, the excellent Love hina trading card series
For our T-shirt fans, we've got a few leftover "I'm a virgin killer" Japanese kanji T-shirts
For our Wacky Things from Japan customers, some really cool new items, including traditional bamboo ear cleaners (they feel so good!), more extra-long cooking chopsticks from japan, origami paper for kids, a bamboo mat that has many uses, and the "ultimate" slly container for your desk!
Breakfast cereal is one of the major staple foods in the U.S., and it's slowly growing in popularity here in Japan, too. It was slow going, though -- Japanese consumers preferred Japanese food, like fish, miso soup and natto (fermented soybeans), to what looked to them like "bird seed." Now, several brands of cereal compete for share the Japanese cereal market, lead by Kellogg's, who markets Corn Flake, Corn Frosty, Choko-wa (chocolate loops), and All-Bran. Unfortunately, Kellogg's products are very expensive here -- about $4 for a box that contains only 2-3 American-sized bowls of cereal, so I usually choose Ciscorn or Calbee's cereal products. Amazingly, Japan is a huge consumer of rice, but no one sells Rice Crispies or a copycat product here.
Japanese is an interesting language grammatically. In Japanese, you have various "particles" which you use to mark words -- a subject particle, an object particle, and so on. Related to this are the many Japanese "counters" you use to count things. There are hundreds of these counters, each used with different kinds of objects. To count thin, flat objects like cards or sheets of paper, you use "mai" (e.g. ichi mai, ni mai, san mai). To count long, cylindrical objects like an umbrella, you use "hon" (ippon, ni hon). There are special counters for birds (wa), small animals like dogs (hiki), larger animals like cows (tou), and so on -- similar to words like "gaggle" "herd" and "flock" in English, but extended to virtually all countable nouns. It's quite fun to try to learn them all.
Japan had a large quake on Saturday which destroyed thousands of homes and left several dead around Hiroshima and Ehime Prefecture, on the smallest Japanese island of Shikoku. J-List is about 1500 km from Hiroshima, so we were quite far from the damage -- I didn't even know about the quake until I read it in the Daily Yomiuri. It was a terrible tragedy, but we're glad there wasn't more loss of life.
We had some server problems on Saturday, Japan time, which resulted in the shopping cart not adding items that were added to the cart properly. We are very sorry for for the inconvenience. The site is working fine now, and we think the problem are over, but if you have any problems with the J-List cart, you can order via our secure email form at https://rook.axnet.net/pages/virtual/jlist/orderjlist_secure.html . Currently, most of the larger images have been removed from the server to keep he drive from filling up while we move servers, so please use "thumbnail view" when browsing the J-List site.
For the new update, we've added some excellent items for you, including
First, some excellent adult magazines from Japan, including the stellar new issues of Penthouse Japan and Penthouse Special, a super new Gal's Dee for fans of busty Japanese girls, and the very erotic amateur magazine High-Teen Nessha Boy
For photobook fans, we have A5 format color photobook of the popular CD-ROM series Yellows 2.0, Yellows 3.0 ~ China and Yellows 1.0 ~ Americans, which are mostly out of print
Als for photobook lovers, a special item: From the Bathroom with Love, which contains fabulous nude shots of Japan's most famous AV gals, but also pictures of their own homes with maps to their homes -- features virtually every popular AV girl in Japan today
For bondage and discipline lovers, an interesting magazine + dual Video CD sampler item with footage from Brain Trust and others
We have two excellent new dojinshi in stock for you: the very sexy 12 Kaiten, an exploration in Japanese "waitress fetishism," and Energya's fabulous new collection of hentai Sailor Moon
We've got a bunch of excellent erotic manga that have been posted, with many new all-new volumes, including books from IC, Do and Oak Comix -- also a super new issue of Electric Fighting Daughters, the "game girl" hentai parody dojinshi anthology manga
Also for manga fans, we have fresh stock of the truly excellent Paradise Lost erotic dojinshi anthologies from Fusion Product
For DVD lovers, another excellent re-issue DVD for fans of classic gals -- Ozawa madoka's sexy "18 Dreams"
Also for DVD fans, we've posted the Masterpiece of SOD collection DVD, which features killer samples from 64 titles released between May and August of 2000
If you love the pure and virginal Minori Aoi, check out her "Lucky Creamy Girl" video offering, from the famous Uchu Kikaku, on our video pages
From Soft on Demand's Deep's label, an excellent compilation video featuring 120 minutes of their excellent tekoki, cosplay and other video works
For fans of Takara's very lovely Licca-chan doll series, we've got a cool set of keychains featuring Licca dressed for a summer festival -- Asakura Licca-chan -- on the anime & toys page
We've got fresh stock of one of my favorite foods from Japan, konnyaku jelly, on the Japanese snacks and food page. Konnyaku is a vegetable-based food that is very solid and firm, and is used as a diet food here because it fills you up while providing very few calories. Check out our konnyaku jelly items before we sell out again
Also on the snacks page, a delicious new twist on furikake: kimchee flavor (yum)
We've got several very cute things for you for the Wacky Things from Japan (cute stuff) page, including two new Hello Kitty chopsticks, and a really nice set of Kitty-chan bags of different sizes -- great for giving gifts or eating your lunch
We've got two sets of lovely collectible cards for you -- for lovely idol fans, the deluxe and very popular swimsuit and high school uniform cards of Nagai Luna, and for anime fans, the excellent Love hina trading card series
For our T-shirt fans, we've got a few leftover "I'm a virgin killer" Japanese kanji T-shirts
For our Wacky Things from Japan customers, some really cool new items, including traditional bamboo ear cleaners (they feel so good!), more extra-long cooking chopsticks from japan, origami paper for kids, a bamboo mat that has many uses, and the "ultimate" slly container for your desk!
Wednesday, March 21, 2001
Greetings from J-List March 21, 2001
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Monday, March 19, 2001
Greetings from J-List March 19, 2001
Hello again from Japan, where fatherhood means never taking a bath alone...
Bongo Friendee aside, it's quite interesting to analyze Japan's car names. Above all, they must sound "kakko ii" (cool), and since nothing sound cooler to the Japanese ear than English, most cars here get their names from English words -- like Honda Life and Legend, or Nissan's Bluebird and Sunny. But many other names come from slightly altered English, so that they cause the same emotional response while being original. Words like Carolla or Tercel or Sylphy or Premacy sound like English, but car companies can still "own" the original names.
Japanese cars must never, ever have Japanese names, since that would be "kakko warui" (un-cool) -- Japanese are always amused to learn that the Suzuki Jiminy is sold as Suzuki Samurai in the U.S. However, there are some cars whose names started out as Japanese words before being "English-ified." Toyota Camry, for example, gets its name from "kammuri," which means crown in Japanese -- which is funny, since Toyota sells a higher-priced sedan here called Toyota Crown. Other names that have a "Japanese" feel to them are Daihatsu's Mira (sort of sounds like "mirai" which means "future") and Mitsubishi's Minica (which sound like what it is -- a very small "mini car").
Incidentally, no one drives Camry here, and it's quite rare that you see them driving on the streets. Honda's popular Step Wagon (a mini-van) and Toyota's Estima are far more common.
For this week's first update, we've got some extra-special items for you, including:
We've also lowered the price of the very popular Creamy Angel CD-ROM series vol. 1 & 2 from $14.95 to $9.95. This is a really excellent hentai CG series featuring the full works of Japanese erotic CG illustrator Mashitaka. See these and other very cool items on our hentai CD-ROM pages.
Bongo Friendee aside, it's quite interesting to analyze Japan's car names. Above all, they must sound "kakko ii" (cool), and since nothing sound cooler to the Japanese ear than English, most cars here get their names from English words -- like Honda Life and Legend, or Nissan's Bluebird and Sunny. But many other names come from slightly altered English, so that they cause the same emotional response while being original. Words like Carolla or Tercel or Sylphy or Premacy sound like English, but car companies can still "own" the original names.
Japanese cars must never, ever have Japanese names, since that would be "kakko warui" (un-cool) -- Japanese are always amused to learn that the Suzuki Jiminy is sold as Suzuki Samurai in the U.S. However, there are some cars whose names started out as Japanese words before being "English-ified." Toyota Camry, for example, gets its name from "kammuri," which means crown in Japanese -- which is funny, since Toyota sells a higher-priced sedan here called Toyota Crown. Other names that have a "Japanese" feel to them are Daihatsu's Mira (sort of sounds like "mirai" which means "future") and Mitsubishi's Minica (which sound like what it is -- a very small "mini car").
Incidentally, no one drives Camry here, and it's quite rare that you see them driving on the streets. Honda's popular Step Wagon (a mini-van) and Toyota's Estima are far more common.
For this week's first update, we've got some extra-special items for you, including:
- Killer new magazines, including the very lovely new Beppin School. Because last month's issues were unavailable, we expect this great issue to go fast, so pick it up if you want a copy
- Also very cool, Urecco's CosPet, a look at some of Japan's most killer AV gals in sexy costumes
- For photobook lovers, we've got some nice all-new titles, including Yokoyama Yuki's very erotic hardcover nude photobook
- Also for photobook fans, some limited stock of some classic photobooks, including Miyazawa Rie's category-killing "Santa Fe"
- Leg fans, don't miss the Internet Idol and Race Queen panty stocking fetish photoobok (3 copies posted)
- Also very cool, we've now got stock of the fabulous Mania Club Deluxe, an all-color hardcore S&M photobook featuring 25 gorgeous AV gals, including Yoshino Sally, Sawaguchi Miki, and many more
- For dojiinshi fans, we've got fresh stock of two incredible works from Okachimentaiko: The Next Climax Magazine 3 (all Gundam hentai dojinshi) and Burajiru 2 (a lovely *color* Yamato, Pokemon and other hentai dojinshi)
- If you love hentai games from Japan, a new issue of Fantasienne is posted for your approval
- For as long as we've sold Japan's erotic manga, the #1 seller has been Harazaki Takuma's positively beautiful erotic comic Golden Stage. Now vol. 5 of this supremely crafted hentai manga is available
- For fans of very hardcore yaoi, we've got the excellent "SM Boy's Love Anthology Stinger" on the yaoi page for you
- For DVD collectors, a very nice magazine + code-free DVD sampler item, with *120 minutes* of great footage from 74 different adult DVD titles
- Also for DVD fans, a great item -- the DVD version of SOD's First Period of 2000 product sampler, and this DVD is code-free (yaay)
- The DVD titles Bondage DX and Big Morkal's 4 hours sample item, which had sold out and were accidentally taken off the J-List site, are reposted (sorry about that)
- For Japan AV video lovers, we've got two for you: Shy DX 2000, a great erotic video featuring 8 of Japan's most popular actresses performing for you over 90 minutes, and Sexy Restaurant Konna Miller's an erotic exploration of Japanese waitress fetishism
- For fans of our "wacky" things from Japan, we've restocked several items, including Hello Kitty chopsticks (the pefect symbol of Japan in one little package), Japan's milk container sealers, and the washing machine balls that make your clothes cleaner
- For Japanese snack fans, we've got some nice items for you, including a deluxe Miso Soup package (with different varieties of soup in one package), children's furikaku that comes with a cool Japanese pokemon figure, and just one package of the much-requested winter limited edition chocolate
- For Japanese gum fans, find Meiji's Xylish sugarless mint gum, that protectes your teeth with the help of a funky compound invented in Norway
- We've got the ultimate Japanese set of funny stickers for your bathroom on the Japanese signs page
- And finally, new items on our Wacky Things from Japan page include Hello Kitty tissue, a delue package of chopsticks that say "Live long and prosper" on them in Japanese (well...), and the ultimate Japanese device for separating egg yolks from whites!
We've also lowered the price of the very popular Creamy Angel CD-ROM series vol. 1 & 2 from $14.95 to $9.95. This is a really excellent hentai CG series featuring the full works of Japanese erotic CG illustrator Mashitaka. See these and other very cool items on our hentai CD-ROM pages.
Greetings from J-List March 19, 2001
Hello again from Japan, where fatherhood means never taking a bath alone...
Bongo Friendee aside, it's quite interesting to analyze Japan's car names. Above all, they must sound "kakko ii" (cool), and since nothing sound cooler to the Japanese ear than English, most cars here get their names from English words -- like Honda Life and Legend, or Nissan's Bluebird and Sunny. But many other names come from slightly altered English, so that they cause the same emotional response while being original. Words like Carolla or Tercel or Sylphy or Premacy sound like English, but car companies can still "own" the original names.
Japanese cars must never, ever have Japanese names, since that would be "kakko warui" (un-cool) -- Japanese are always amused to learn that the Suzuki Jiminy is sold as Suzuki Samurai in the U.S. However, there are some cars whose names started out as Japanese words before being "English-ified." Toyota Camry, for example, gets its name from "kammuri," which means crown in Japanese -- which is funny, since Toyota sells a higher-priced sedan here called Toyota Crown. Other names that have a "Japanese" feel to them are Daihatsu's Mira (sort of sounds like "mirai" which means "future") and Mitsubishi's Minica (which sound like what it is -- a very small "mini car").
Incidentally, no one drives Camry here, and it's quite rare that you see them driving on the streets. Honda's popular Step Wagon (a mini-van) and Toyota's Estima are far more common.
For this week's first update, we've got some extra-special items for you, including:
We've also lowered the price of the very popular Creamy Angel CD-ROM series vol. 1 & 2 from $14.95 to $9.95. This is a really excellent hentai CG series featuring the full works of Japanese erotic CG illustrator Mashitaka. See these and other very cool items on our hentai CD-ROM pages.
Bongo Friendee aside, it's quite interesting to analyze Japan's car names. Above all, they must sound "kakko ii" (cool), and since nothing sound cooler to the Japanese ear than English, most cars here get their names from English words -- like Honda Life and Legend, or Nissan's Bluebird and Sunny. But many other names come from slightly altered English, so that they cause the same emotional response while being original. Words like Carolla or Tercel or Sylphy or Premacy sound like English, but car companies can still "own" the original names.
Japanese cars must never, ever have Japanese names, since that would be "kakko warui" (un-cool) -- Japanese are always amused to learn that the Suzuki Jiminy is sold as Suzuki Samurai in the U.S. However, there are some cars whose names started out as Japanese words before being "English-ified." Toyota Camry, for example, gets its name from "kammuri," which means crown in Japanese -- which is funny, since Toyota sells a higher-priced sedan here called Toyota Crown. Other names that have a "Japanese" feel to them are Daihatsu's Mira (sort of sounds like "mirai" which means "future") and Mitsubishi's Minica (which sound like what it is -- a very small "mini car").
Incidentally, no one drives Camry here, and it's quite rare that you see them driving on the streets. Honda's popular Step Wagon (a mini-van) and Toyota's Estima are far more common.
For this week's first update, we've got some extra-special items for you, including:
- Killer new magazines, including the very lovely new Beppin School. Because last month's issues were unavailable, we expect this great issue to go fast, so pick it up if you want a copy
- Also very cool, Urecco's CosPet, a look at some of Japan's most killer AV gals in sexy costumes
- For photobook lovers, we've got some nice all-new titles, including Yokoyama Yuki's very erotic hardcover nude photobook
- Also for photobook fans, some limited stock of some classic photobooks, including Miyazawa Rie's category-killing "Santa Fe"
- Leg fans, don't miss the Internet Idol and Race Queen panty stocking fetish photoobok (3 copies posted)
- Also very cool, we've now got stock of the fabulous Mania Club Deluxe, an all-color hardcore S&M photobook featuring 25 gorgeous AV gals, including Yoshino Sally, Sawaguchi Miki, and many more
- For dojiinshi fans, we've got fresh stock of two incredible works from Okachimentaiko: The Next Climax Magazine 3 (all Gundam hentai dojinshi) and Burajiru 2 (a lovely *color* Yamato, Pokemon and other hentai dojinshi)
- If you love hentai games from Japan, a new issue of Fantasienne is posted for your approval
- For as long as we've sold Japan's erotic manga, the #1 seller has been Harazaki Takuma's positively beautiful erotic comic Golden Stage. Now vol. 5 of this supremely crafted hentai manga is available
- For fans of very hardcore yaoi, we've got the excellent "SM Boy's Love Anthology Stinger" on the yaoi page for you
- For DVD collectors, a very nice magazine + code-free DVD sampler item, with *120 minutes* of great footage from 74 different adult DVD titles
- Also for DVD fans, a great item -- the DVD version of SOD's First Period of 2000 product sampler, and this DVD is code-free (yaay)
- The DVD titles Bondage DX and Big Morkal's 4 hours sample item, which had sold out and were accidentally taken off the J-List site, are reposted (sorry about that)
- For Japan AV video lovers, we've got two for you: Shy DX 2000, a great erotic video featuring 8 of Japan's most popular actresses performing for you over 90 minutes, and Sexy Restaurant Konna Miller's an erotic exploration of Japanese waitress fetishism
- For fans of our "wacky" things from Japan, we've restocked several items, including Hello Kitty chopsticks (the pefect symbol of Japan in one little package), Japan's milk container sealers, and the washing machine balls that make your clothes cleaner
- For Japanese snack fans, we've got some nice items for you, including a deluxe Miso Soup package (with different varieties of soup in one package), children's furikaku that comes with a cool Japanese pokemon figure, and just one package of the much-requested winter limited edition chocolate
- For Japanese gum fans, find Meiji's Xylish sugarless mint gum, that protectes your teeth with the help of a funky compound invented in Norway
- We've got the ultimate Japanese set of funny stickers for your bathroom on the Japanese signs page
- And finally, new items on our Wacky Things from Japan page include Hello Kitty tissue, a delue package of chopsticks that say "Live long and prosper" on them in Japanese (well...), and the ultimate Japanese device for separating egg yolks from whites!
We've also lowered the price of the very popular Creamy Angel CD-ROM series vol. 1 & 2 from $14.95 to $9.95. This is a really excellent hentai CG series featuring the full works of Japanese erotic CG illustrator Mashitaka. See these and other very cool items on our hentai CD-ROM pages.
Saturday, March 17, 2001
Greetings from J-List March 17, 2001
Hello, and "happy weekend" from Japan and J-List!
One thing I've noticed about Japanese, especially Japanese in Gunma Prefecture, which is a rural prefecture right in the center of Japan (population 2 million), is that they tend not to move. Aside from moving because of changes in jobs, Japanese tend to stay where they are. This creates some interesting differences, when compared with the U.S. In San Diego, there are different "levels" of neighborhoods, depending on the age and income of the people who live there. Poor college students will live in one area of the city, then move to a slightly nicer area when they start to work, move up again when they buy their first house, and so on. But in Japan, where people rarely move and almost never want to give up land they own, you find newly rebuilt houses next to much older homes and even some run-down shacks.
My mother has spent some months adding on to the house in San Diego, and it's been interesting to observe some differences between the US and Japan, too. In Japan, when you have workmen working for you, you're required by unwritten custom to bring them something to drink (coffee, green tea) at 10 am and 3 pm. After all, they're working hard, and you want to keep goodwill between the workmen who are building your house. Of course, they don't have any Shinto groundbreaking rites in the U.S. either -- when we built the J-List office, for example, we had a Shinto priest come out and consecrate the ground in an interesting ceremony to bring good luck.
Our "top 5" has been updated for the past week. Peach Princess's premier release, X-Change, is selling very well!
For this evening's update of cool stuff from Japan, we've got some really cool items, including:
Remember that J-List has a great assortment of interesting and bizarre gum from Japan, from the runaway best-selling gum Black Black (per number of units, the best-selling single product in J-List's hitory) to refreshing Green Gum (to give you the "freshness of the forest"), exotic fruit flavored gum like La France and Pepino, and more. Check out the Japanese Gum page now!
One thing I've noticed about Japanese, especially Japanese in Gunma Prefecture, which is a rural prefecture right in the center of Japan (population 2 million), is that they tend not to move. Aside from moving because of changes in jobs, Japanese tend to stay where they are. This creates some interesting differences, when compared with the U.S. In San Diego, there are different "levels" of neighborhoods, depending on the age and income of the people who live there. Poor college students will live in one area of the city, then move to a slightly nicer area when they start to work, move up again when they buy their first house, and so on. But in Japan, where people rarely move and almost never want to give up land they own, you find newly rebuilt houses next to much older homes and even some run-down shacks.
My mother has spent some months adding on to the house in San Diego, and it's been interesting to observe some differences between the US and Japan, too. In Japan, when you have workmen working for you, you're required by unwritten custom to bring them something to drink (coffee, green tea) at 10 am and 3 pm. After all, they're working hard, and you want to keep goodwill between the workmen who are building your house. Of course, they don't have any Shinto groundbreaking rites in the U.S. either -- when we built the J-List office, for example, we had a Shinto priest come out and consecrate the ground in an interesting ceremony to bring good luck.
Our "top 5" has been updated for the past week. Peach Princess's premier release, X-Change, is selling very well!
For this evening's update of cool stuff from Japan, we've got some really cool items, including:
- First, killer new issues of Japanese magazines, including the new Bejean (features Fukada Miho and more!), the excellent new Gal's Shower, and a great new issue of Waffle (which should go fast)
- For photobook lovers, we've got several excellent all-new hard- and soft-cover books for you, as well as fresh stock of some old favorites
- We've got more $5 magazine for bargain hunters, on magazine page 3
- If you love Japan's erotic S&M photography, we really recommend Bondage 17, which features 17 fantastic Japanese ladies in exotic and erotic poses -- includes Hosho Nana, Shimizu Kaori, Inoue Chihiro and more!
- For leg lovers, we've got a killer new item -- Panst Best, a Photoshot-format glossy photobook-magazine with great and erotic images inside
- Fans of AV sampler products should check out fresh stock of DVD & Video CD Soft Catalog, on the magazine and CD-ROM pages
- For hentai fans, the new issue of Tech Giant, a fantastic gem of a magazine that includes a CD-ROM with demos and game images
- We've got some great all-new erotic manga posted for you, including "Rugged Relation," an interesting title from Hit Comics -- also, fresh stock of some popular manga volumes on the Bestsellers page
- Also for manga fans, we've refreshed our stock of the excellent Lunatic Party and Paradise Lost series, from Fusion Product -- however, the stock we have now will likely be our last, so complete your collection of these excellent Sailor Moon and Evangelion parody dojinshi anthologies soon
- For yaoi fans, we've got a nice new title posted for you
- For DVD collectors, two excellent items: the very lovely Kawamura Risa's Bondage DX, a Race Queen/S&M exploration; and Big Morkal's DVD Anthology, with an amazing *3 hours* of footage featuring *124* lovely AV actresses, for just $20
- For SOD lovers, a fresh new twist on the Stark Nakedness Sports series: the All Nude Challenger series, where 108 all-nude Japanese girls compete in various sports for cash. Features nude bicycle tricks, nude 100 meter dash, and trying to see how many nude Japanese girls can fit into a phone booth
- If you love 90's AV, you must love Iijima Ai, an elegant woman who helped make the AV world what it is today. We've got a great title from her glory days!
- I love anime, and one of my first loves was Yamato, aka Star Blazers. We've got fresh stock of the very cool die-cast Yamato toys, including the Andromeda, on the anime toys page
- We've restocked our Wacky Things in Japan page with several items, including the very popular Japanese "kairo" warming pads, and more
- For Japanese snack & food fans, some all-new items: a new flavor of furikake (wasabi flavored, for those who love wasabi), a great curry powder that helps you make curry fried rice easily, and a favorite of mine, Japanese "sauce" (that's it's name, just "sauce"), a delicious thick sauce that goes with many foods (but not, IMHO, eggs)
- We've got a new silly Japanese sticker -- "No drunks allowed"
- Finally, newly posted items on our Wacky Things from Japan page include an authentic Japanese bento box, buddhist incense and special gold sand (to stand your incense up with), and something really cool: Japanese "noren" door curtains, to add a touch of Japanese color to any room.
Remember that J-List has a great assortment of interesting and bizarre gum from Japan, from the runaway best-selling gum Black Black (per number of units, the best-selling single product in J-List's hitory) to refreshing Green Gum (to give you the "freshness of the forest"), exotic fruit flavored gum like La France and Pepino, and more. Check out the Japanese Gum page now!
Wednesday, March 14, 2001
Greetings from J-List March 14, 2001
Good evening from Japan, where calories are always "kikocalories."
The social phenomenon known as "kogals" (Japanese young girls who wear outrageous fashions, with blonde wigs and silly elevator shoes and tan their bodies nearly black) has brought about a new consequence: the "gal mama." Silly gals who wear flamboyant fashions can now be seen pushing baby carriages in front of them. Sexually active kogals have accidents just like everyone else, and they want to do right right thing and raise their babies -- but not at the expense of their fashion and style. Seeing two "gals" exchanging child-rearing tips while they put on their thick make-up can be quite a sight.
Living in Japan, there are certain things you learn by watching the people around you, little wisdoms that accumulate. One is that Japanese almost never sleep with socks on. I don't know why. Japanese women always have a shoe size of either 23 or 23.5 cm, so if you're ever in a pinch and need to buy shoes for a Japanese woman (say, on a trip to Rome), you can guess her shoe size and be right half the time. They never turn their headlights on during the day. All Japanese have brown eyes, of course, but the Japanese insist they are "black." And if you ask a Japanese with a high school level education how many years they've studied English, they will dutifully count out six years on their fingers -- three for junior high, three for high school -- and then tell you "six years" -- despite the fact that everyone here studies six years of English minimum.
The J-List homepage was broken for a few hours today, very sorry for the inconvenience. The problem was due to an overfilled hard drive, but the problem has been fixed. If you ever experience problems with the J-List order system, feel free to use our secure email form at https://rook.axnet.net/pages/virtual/jlist/orderjlist_secure.html to submit your order.
For this evening's update, we've got some very nice items for you, including:
Although most of the DVDs J-List sells are zoned for all countries, meaning that there is no region encoding to them, certain DVDs are zoned for region 2 (Japan and Europe) only, namely anime, bishojo/hentai and some adult DVDs from SOD. There are some helpful hints for people who want to get around these anti-globalizing region codes posted at the top of the region 2 DVD page. Thanks to a customer, we've posted a link to DVD Genie, a nifty program that removes region code checking in several software-based DVD players for Windows. We've also got some links to region reset hacks for Macintosh DVD-ROM drives. We love watching (and selling) cool DVDs from Japan, and hope you will find these links helpful.
The social phenomenon known as "kogals" (Japanese young girls who wear outrageous fashions, with blonde wigs and silly elevator shoes and tan their bodies nearly black) has brought about a new consequence: the "gal mama." Silly gals who wear flamboyant fashions can now be seen pushing baby carriages in front of them. Sexually active kogals have accidents just like everyone else, and they want to do right right thing and raise their babies -- but not at the expense of their fashion and style. Seeing two "gals" exchanging child-rearing tips while they put on their thick make-up can be quite a sight.
Living in Japan, there are certain things you learn by watching the people around you, little wisdoms that accumulate. One is that Japanese almost never sleep with socks on. I don't know why. Japanese women always have a shoe size of either 23 or 23.5 cm, so if you're ever in a pinch and need to buy shoes for a Japanese woman (say, on a trip to Rome), you can guess her shoe size and be right half the time. They never turn their headlights on during the day. All Japanese have brown eyes, of course, but the Japanese insist they are "black." And if you ask a Japanese with a high school level education how many years they've studied English, they will dutifully count out six years on their fingers -- three for junior high, three for high school -- and then tell you "six years" -- despite the fact that everyone here studies six years of English minimum.
The J-List homepage was broken for a few hours today, very sorry for the inconvenience. The problem was due to an overfilled hard drive, but the problem has been fixed. If you ever experience problems with the J-List order system, feel free to use our secure email form at https://rook.axnet.net/pages/virtual/jlist/orderjlist_secure.html to submit your order.
For this evening's update, we've got some very nice items for you, including:
- First and foremost, some excellent magazines for you, including the excellent new issues of Gokuh (with a special on Japanese & Korean Race Queens and more), and the excellent new issue of Dela Beppin
- For fans of Video CD + magazine combinations, we've got a great new issue of Ex CD-ROM, containing tons of sample footage of your favorite AV gals
- We've got some excellent photobook items for you, including fresh stock of several of the Bishojo Memorial photobooks
- For lovers of Japan's amazing erotic wide manga, we've got some all-new issues, including some positively wonderful erotic works by Angel Comics, Ex Comics and Fujimi
- Also for manga fans, a large volley of fresh stock of some of our popular manga, including From the Bucho with Love, Kozue, Professor the Cow God, and Shiwasu no Okina's "Get or Die"
- For fans of erotic parody works, we've got some very nice dojiin-soft CG image collections on the dojinshi/dojinsoft page
- Fans of pro AV actresses should check out the shockingly cool offering from Inoue Chihiro, A-Class Busty Criminal, on the in-stock video pages (remember, if we run out of stock you can find this item on the special order video page)
- Fans of SOD's Stark Nakedness Sports Series will be happy to see two new "Zenra" series videos on the SOD pages
- We've got a very nice item for DVD collectors -- two awesome DVDs re-released at lower prices by their studios: Ozawa Madoka's "Pure Love" and Kanazawa Bunko's "Sweet Eighteen" (both code-free!)
- For fans of lovely Japanese "kogals," we've got a new item for you via our monthly resolving "reserve subscription" -- Egg, a kogal fashion & social magazine that captures the current style and trends of Japan's young kogal medium. Get this magazine sent to you every month from J-list!
- For fans of our Japanese snacks and food page, we've got a classic Japanese item for you: pickled "umoboshi" plums, which are delicious but very tart. Also, fresh stock of a favorite of mine, wakame soup
- We have fresh stock of several items on our Wacky Things page,. including our popular hiragana and katakana notebooks (great for learning to write Japanese), our affordable maps of Japan, our wacky Japanese days-of-the-week magnets, and more
- New items on the Wacky Things from Japan page include a great letter-writing notebook in traditional Japanese fashion, colorful wire-ties that help you arrange your ugly computer wiring, and a "pig bag" that is just so Japanese
- The #1 most popular funny Japanese T-shirt J-list makes is our "Looking for a Japanese girlfriend" kanji T-shirt. It's so popular, we had run out of several of the sizes before. But we've gotten a large shipment in, so we have all sizes of this great and wacky T-shirt in again.
Although most of the DVDs J-List sells are zoned for all countries, meaning that there is no region encoding to them, certain DVDs are zoned for region 2 (Japan and Europe) only, namely anime, bishojo/hentai and some adult DVDs from SOD. There are some helpful hints for people who want to get around these anti-globalizing region codes posted at the top of the region 2 DVD page. Thanks to a customer, we've posted a link to DVD Genie, a nifty program that removes region code checking in several software-based DVD players for Windows. We've also got some links to region reset hacks for Macintosh DVD-ROM drives. We love watching (and selling) cool DVDs from Japan, and hope you will find these links helpful.
Monday, March 12, 2001
Greetings from J-List March 12, 2001
Hello again from the country that invented curtains for cars, Japan!
Japan has some interesting customs regarding the signing of official documents. For example, when we went to fill out the forms for our Bongo Friendee, we had to make sure we had our dually registered name stamp ("hanko"), which is used in place of a signature as a way of verifying a person's agreement. In order to officially stamp something, you often need a "stamp proof of registration" paper which you get from the local city office. Only stamps that are registered with the city are legally binding. The use of these stamps is somewhat puzzling to foreigners -- what's to stop someone from mugging you and stealing your stamp, then withdrawing all your money from the bank. For reasons that only the Japanese can probably understand, this nearly never happens. As the Japanese economy takes more queues from the outside world, credit cards are becoming carried more and more; since the credit card system uses handwritten signatures as verification, the Japanese are of course familiar with western-style signatures, too.
The Kyokucho (manager) of the Kotobuki Post Office is retiring, at the age of 62. An interesting man whose been an incredible help to us at J-List from the beginning, setting up ways to send packages through the post office much faster. J-List repaid his kindness by rocketing his tiny post office to the #1 stop for orders shipped (J-List edged out Sanden, a large manufacturer based in Isesaki, as the biggest user of postal services in the city last year), earning him a big bonus, we hope. He said he's retiring early so he can spend his time traveling the world and doing interesting things. A very "genki" man who loves Japanese onsens and N-gauge model trains, we feel like we're losing a member of the family.
For this evening's update, we've got some very nice items for you, including:
I must apologize again to the people who got multiple copies of the J-List updates list last week. Very sorry about that. The offending list server has been punished, and we don't think the problem should occur again.
Japan has some interesting customs regarding the signing of official documents. For example, when we went to fill out the forms for our Bongo Friendee, we had to make sure we had our dually registered name stamp ("hanko"), which is used in place of a signature as a way of verifying a person's agreement. In order to officially stamp something, you often need a "stamp proof of registration" paper which you get from the local city office. Only stamps that are registered with the city are legally binding. The use of these stamps is somewhat puzzling to foreigners -- what's to stop someone from mugging you and stealing your stamp, then withdrawing all your money from the bank. For reasons that only the Japanese can probably understand, this nearly never happens. As the Japanese economy takes more queues from the outside world, credit cards are becoming carried more and more; since the credit card system uses handwritten signatures as verification, the Japanese are of course familiar with western-style signatures, too.
The Kyokucho (manager) of the Kotobuki Post Office is retiring, at the age of 62. An interesting man whose been an incredible help to us at J-List from the beginning, setting up ways to send packages through the post office much faster. J-List repaid his kindness by rocketing his tiny post office to the #1 stop for orders shipped (J-List edged out Sanden, a large manufacturer based in Isesaki, as the biggest user of postal services in the city last year), earning him a big bonus, we hope. He said he's retiring early so he can spend his time traveling the world and doing interesting things. A very "genki" man who loves Japanese onsens and N-gauge model trains, we feel like we're losing a member of the family.
For this evening's update, we've got some very nice items for you, including:
- First and foremost, I'm very glad to say that Peach Princess's premier title, X-Change, is now shipping. This is a wonderful "sex change comedy" bishojo game that's been eagerly awaited by fans for many months -- get your copy now!
- We have a bunch of excellent erotic magazines from Japan, including the new issues of Video Boy and Best Video -- take note Ohura Anna fans!
- The new issue of DVD Soft Catalog, renamed to reflect the changes in the Japanese marketplace, is posted
- If you love great hentai-related magazines from Japan, check out Tech Gian, an excellent magazine that comes with a CD-ROM
- We have some new items on the gouka-bon page, for fans of high-end Japanese bondage erotica
- We've got some powerfully beautiful photobooks for you, including a new one from the lovely Tanaka Rena, and Hoshina Rie's "Afternoon Face"
- Also for photobook fans, a treat -- stock of a great issue of Photoshot, the glossy photobook-quality magazine with the oversize format
- If you love Japanese angels with long legs, check out our surprise: fresh stock of Mini-Suka Deluxe, our #1 leg-fetish item
- For manga fans, we've got a nice item: fresh stock of many issues of the excellent parody manga from Japan's Fusion Product: Lunatic Party (erotic Sailor moon) and Angelic Impact and Paradise Lost (erotic Evangelion)
- Also for manga lovers, we've got some great back-from-the-dead manga volumes in both the Manga (new releases) and Manga (classics) pages
- We've got some new dojinshi posted, too, although they will likely sell out quickly (sorry
- For girls, check out the stock of the latest Shojo Kakumei (Girl's Revolution), a very interesting erotic comic for girls
- If you love cute Japanese gals, check out the 4th video in SOD's Puchi Angel, featuring the lovely Hayakawa Yu-chan
- Fans of the popular bishojo game Kanon should check out the very nice art book on the art books page
- We've got two killer items for region- free DVD collectors: Hell of Lesbian, a refreshing lesbian DVD performance; and the excellent My Little Sister, a *4 hour* DVD featuring excellent erotic works by four lovely AV actresses, including Ijiri Sayaka -- this cool DVD comes with a business-card size CD-ROM for Mac/PC with extra goodies
- We've got some nice items back in stock on our Wacky Things from Japan page, including some excellent new funny Japanese notebooks
- If you love Japanese tea, we've got an item for you: Japanese mugi (wheat) tea bags that are extra long and thin, so you cna easily brew mugi-cha in any narrow PET bottle. Convenient and delicious!
- Finally, we've got some great new Wacky Things for you, as we always do: today we have a deluxe canvas backpack (very popular among Tokyo gals), a super-hanger that allows you hang tons of cloths in a small space, and a niffty Japanese "shoes box" for your car -- keep your car clean by having your guests take their shoes off in your car.
I must apologize again to the people who got multiple copies of the J-List updates list last week. Very sorry about that. The offending list server has been punished, and we don't think the problem should occur again.
Thursday, March 08, 2001
Greetings from J-List March 8, 2001
Hello and "Hoppy Thursday" from J-List!
Has a Japanese ever told you are "good head"? If so, it's a complement, although it might not sound like one. In Japanese, the phrase for "smart" is "good head," which sometimes gets carried over into English. The English words "smart" is used in Japanese to mean slender, well proportioned (as in, "That girl is very smart and stylish"). Other words are used in English in interesting ways. For example, when a man wants to win a woman's love, he prepares to "attack" her -- the English word attack means "to vie for the affection of another" and doesn't carry the violent connotations it can in English. That's good.
Near our house, we can see the Sphinx, the Statue of Liberty, and many other interesting wonders. These are pachinko parlors, a major source of entertainment for many Japanese men and women in Japan. An odd game which I don't pretend to understand, you basically buy a bucket of balls for $50, then sit for hours trying to hold a controller in just the right position to make most of the balls go into certain holes in the pachinko machine. Since "gambling" is illegal in Japan, except for certain events like horse, boat and bicycle racing, you don't win money if you get more balls than you started out with -- you get valuable prizes which you redeem at a shady building next to the pachinko parlor. Pachinko is quite competitive, and operators (who always seem to be getting involved with some crime or another) work very hard to bring in the newest machines (with little video screens, for example), and interesting names to attract customers (there's one a few miles from here named Al Pacino). Despite the efforts of the pachinko industry to make the activity seem like a friendly and family-oriented thing to do, pachinko always seems to go hand in hand with the yakuza, and people who engage in pachinko don't seem to be the brightest or most savory. (A while ago, a woman left her baby in the car while she played pachinko; the baby died.)
For this evening's update, we've got some special items for you, including:
If you haven't seen All Your Bases yet, check it out. It'll get in your head! The URL is http://www.duke.edu/~jmm5/AYB3.swf
Has a Japanese ever told you are "good head"? If so, it's a complement, although it might not sound like one. In Japanese, the phrase for "smart" is "good head," which sometimes gets carried over into English. The English words "smart" is used in Japanese to mean slender, well proportioned (as in, "That girl is very smart and stylish"). Other words are used in English in interesting ways. For example, when a man wants to win a woman's love, he prepares to "attack" her -- the English word attack means "to vie for the affection of another" and doesn't carry the violent connotations it can in English. That's good.
Near our house, we can see the Sphinx, the Statue of Liberty, and many other interesting wonders. These are pachinko parlors, a major source of entertainment for many Japanese men and women in Japan. An odd game which I don't pretend to understand, you basically buy a bucket of balls for $50, then sit for hours trying to hold a controller in just the right position to make most of the balls go into certain holes in the pachinko machine. Since "gambling" is illegal in Japan, except for certain events like horse, boat and bicycle racing, you don't win money if you get more balls than you started out with -- you get valuable prizes which you redeem at a shady building next to the pachinko parlor. Pachinko is quite competitive, and operators (who always seem to be getting involved with some crime or another) work very hard to bring in the newest machines (with little video screens, for example), and interesting names to attract customers (there's one a few miles from here named Al Pacino). Despite the efforts of the pachinko industry to make the activity seem like a friendly and family-oriented thing to do, pachinko always seems to go hand in hand with the yakuza, and people who engage in pachinko don't seem to be the brightest or most savory. (A while ago, a woman left her baby in the car while she played pachinko; the baby died.)
For this evening's update, we've got some special items for you, including:
- First, some excellent new magazines, including the Urecco -- it's a fabulous issue this time, featuring many charming models and "fresh nudes"
- We have several other interesting magazines, including "Lip Mate," a popular item
- For photobook fans, see several new items posted, including Yano Emi's "El Amor" and Ayami Shiho's "Elopement," both very beautiful
- Also, we have fresh stock of some wonderful photobooks including Kawashima Azumi's "Flow Out" and "Azumi II," new stock of the dynamite "Sweet Trap" deluxe hardcover photobook, more stock of Futari and Love Session, and mor!
- We've got a positively wonderful photobook for leg fetish fans, Hyper Low Angle, on our unique Japanese leg fetish page
- For dojinshi collectors, we've got a few single issues posted to the dojinshi page now, including some nice items from the 1990's
- For manga fans, we've got our usual strong update of manga, half a dozen or more excellent items back in stock, and several more all-new offerings -- including Tanuma Yuichiro's excellent Princess of Darkness
- On our DVD (Main) page, a nice new erotic DVD fraturing the sultry Sakura Makoto's erotic performance -- and this one is subtitled in English and Chinese!
- Also newly posted, a selection of rare and bargain Video CD titles, including some by Miura Aika (we only have one of each though, so they will go fast)
- We'e got some nice new AV videos in, including some nice S&M offerings from the excellent AquaWave
- If you love Japan's erotic bishojo games, check out Bishojo Wonder Land, a CD-ROM + magazine combo with many samples and demos on the disc
- For anime fans we've got some nice anime items, including Dengeki Animation Magazine, filled with pictures and images from Love Hina, Sakura Wars, Card Captor Sakura, and more
- On our popular Japanese snacks page, we've got the all-new Pokemon Gummi candies, featuring Pikachu and Pokemon, in two tasty flavors (we've found that if you hate Pikachu it can be fun to eat his gummi body slowly
- Finally, on our Wacky Things from Japan page, including some cool stainless steel "cooking ring" to make pancakes and eggs in various shapes, an ultra-cool "parasol type" Japanese hanger that allows you to hang all your clothes in a small space, as Japanese do, and the ultimate Japanese address and "print club" book for you!
Due to a mail server glitch, the update went out multiple times to some people on the list last time. Very sorry about that -- we'll watch it and try to make sure problems like this don't happen again.
If you haven't seen All Your Bases yet, check it out. It'll get in your head! The URL is http://www.duke.edu/~jmm5/AYB3.swf
Monday, March 05, 2001
Greetings from J-List March 5, 2001
Hello again from your friends in Japan, J-List!
The Japanese use a lot of English words in their daily life, and depending on your age, spoken Japanese is often peppered with English words like stance, better, pretty, and so on. But when speaking Japanese, you have to "convert" the "English" words a bit before using them. The word "energy" is used in English, but it's pronounced with a hard G -- if you want people to understand you, you learn to pick up the new pronunciation, although it sounds odd at first. "Vitamin" is pronounced "bitamin," with a stress on the second syllable. Sometimes words come in via England, so they're unfamiliar to Americans like me -- a car's hood (bonetto), for example. And some "English" words aren't even English, but come from other languages, such as arubaito (part time job), anket (questionnaire), karte (a medical chart), and ruksak (a backpack). Because all foreign words are written in the Japanese katakana writing system, Japanese people tend to think that all these words are English.
Well, White Day is approaching. This is a silly Japanese day in which men must give a gift -- usually white chocolate -- to women who gave them chocolate on Valentine's Day. Convenience stores jump on the occasion to sell all manner of silly gifts, including many forms of chocolate. Men have an obligation to give chocolate back to people who gave them something, and shops know that they will sell a lot of "obligation chocolate" (giri choco) by March 14.
After several years of mocking Mazda's Bongo Friendee mini-van for having the strangest English of any Japanese car (right up there with the Mitsubishi Thanks Chariot and Toyota's Super Saloon), the versatility of this interesting, fun car finally wore me down, and we bought one. The continuing poor performance of the Japanese economy means that auto makers have to work hard and compete on price, so that helped our decision. The way you buy a car in Japan is quite different from how it's done in the U.S. Here, you always order a car and pick it up in 2-3 weeks, rather than getting it off a dealers' lot that day. Virtually all dealers are operated by the auto makers directly -- thus, you find only Mazda's at the local Mazda dealer (or maybe some Fords, since Ford owns most of Mazda). And as with deciding the date of your wedding, it's important to pick your car up on a "lucky day" according to special Buddhist calendar, to avoid problems and unhappiness. You can see the Bongo Friendee at http://www.friendee.mazda.co.jp/
For this evening's update, we've got some very nice items for you, including:
Remember that you can get any three of our $24.95 bishojo anime games for $70, shipping in US/Canada included. This is like getting $20 off, and it's a great deal. You can choose from Hentai Anime Poker, Three Sisters' Story, Season of the Sakura, Runaway City, Nocturnal Illusion, May Club, or even the enigmatic Transfer Student (which really, really come out some day). These games are in English, and are uncensored, so they're really cool.
The Japanese use a lot of English words in their daily life, and depending on your age, spoken Japanese is often peppered with English words like stance, better, pretty, and so on. But when speaking Japanese, you have to "convert" the "English" words a bit before using them. The word "energy" is used in English, but it's pronounced with a hard G -- if you want people to understand you, you learn to pick up the new pronunciation, although it sounds odd at first. "Vitamin" is pronounced "bitamin," with a stress on the second syllable. Sometimes words come in via England, so they're unfamiliar to Americans like me -- a car's hood (bonetto), for example. And some "English" words aren't even English, but come from other languages, such as arubaito (part time job), anket (questionnaire), karte (a medical chart), and ruksak (a backpack). Because all foreign words are written in the Japanese katakana writing system, Japanese people tend to think that all these words are English.
Well, White Day is approaching. This is a silly Japanese day in which men must give a gift -- usually white chocolate -- to women who gave them chocolate on Valentine's Day. Convenience stores jump on the occasion to sell all manner of silly gifts, including many forms of chocolate. Men have an obligation to give chocolate back to people who gave them something, and shops know that they will sell a lot of "obligation chocolate" (giri choco) by March 14.
After several years of mocking Mazda's Bongo Friendee mini-van for having the strangest English of any Japanese car (right up there with the Mitsubishi Thanks Chariot and Toyota's Super Saloon), the versatility of this interesting, fun car finally wore me down, and we bought one. The continuing poor performance of the Japanese economy means that auto makers have to work hard and compete on price, so that helped our decision. The way you buy a car in Japan is quite different from how it's done in the U.S. Here, you always order a car and pick it up in 2-3 weeks, rather than getting it off a dealers' lot that day. Virtually all dealers are operated by the auto makers directly -- thus, you find only Mazda's at the local Mazda dealer (or maybe some Fords, since Ford owns most of Mazda). And as with deciding the date of your wedding, it's important to pick your car up on a "lucky day" according to special Buddhist calendar, to avoid problems and unhappiness. You can see the Bongo Friendee at http://www.friendee.mazda.co.jp/
For this evening's update, we've got some very nice items for you, including:
- First, some excellent new erotic magazines from Japan, including the new issues of the all-Japanese Penthouse Japan and Penthouse Special, which feature all Japanese models photographed by Japanese photographers, and more
- For fans of the popular magazine + Video CD combo items, we've got a special item for you: the DVD & Video CD Perfect Guide IV, a massive all-color magazine with three VCDs filled with great erotic clips and "quickies" from a variety of genres
- We've got more one-shot issues of older magazines at the of Magazine page 2
- For leg fetish fans, we've got fresh stock of several items for you on the Leg Fetish photobooks page -- including a great new item, Costume Play Sisters, featuring a slew of erotic leg fetish cosplay
- If you love Japan's unique S&M photobooks and related items, check out the new items on the Gouka-Bon page, including SM Net, a magazine + dual-Video CD combo item for S&M and bondage lovers
- For photobook fans, we have several very nice all-new hardcover photobooks, as well as fresh stock of some popular items that had sold out
- There are several excellent new erotic wide mangas posted to the manga pages, including new titles from Tsukasa and Hit Comics, as well as fresh stock of several popular items (including some great large-breast manga items)
- Love dojinshi? We've got three, count them, three great erotic dojinshi from the Angel Pain series, including stock of the popular all-color Angel Pain vol. 5
- For yaoi lovers, we have the handsome new Be Boy Gold, the deluxe erotic yaoi manga monthly with nearly 500 pages of great artwork for you
- The "Puchi Angel" offering from Soft on Demand, featuring pure, pretty Japanese girls and lots of wonderful sailor school uniform themes, was a big hit -- so we've added two new videos in this popular series. See them on the SOD Main page (for the ones we have in stock) or the SOD special-order page (if we run out of stock on hand)
- For fans of the lovely Morishita Kurumi, there's a super erotic release on DVD (region 2), the Bright Blue Wood, with *90* minutes of excellent erotic AV by this special lady
- By customer request, we've created a great new page for you -- Anime DVDs, where we'll carry the unique anime DVDs released here in Japan. these anime DVDs are always of the highest quality, and while they are expensive, they give a lot of value (6 episodes per disc, long playing times). For starters, we've got the first two discs of Mach Go Go Go, the original series known as Speed Racer outside Japan, and the fantastic OVA Complete Collection of Iczer One -- with the entire anime series on one DVD!
- We love updating our Wacky Things from Japan pages, but unfortunately, we got so much cool, bizarre stuff in stock that the page got overcrowded. So, we've made a Wacky Things (Cute) page to go with our Wacky Things (Main) page. We've added some great items to this page, including a super Hello Kitty box with lid and drawer (so cute for your desk) as well as fresh stock of many popular items
- Finally, our popular Wacky Things from Japan page has also been updated, with a spiffy back massager (great for people who get itchy backs), the ultimate milk carton sealer (certified as being "really cool" by my mother, who bought them as gifts when she came to Japan), and more.
Remember that you can get any three of our $24.95 bishojo anime games for $70, shipping in US/Canada included. This is like getting $20 off, and it's a great deal. You can choose from Hentai Anime Poker, Three Sisters' Story, Season of the Sakura, Runaway City, Nocturnal Illusion, May Club, or even the enigmatic Transfer Student (which really, really come out some day). These games are in English, and are uncensored, so they're really cool.
Saturday, March 03, 2001
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Wednesday, February 28, 2001
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Monday, February 26, 2001
Greetings from J-List February 26, 2001
Hello again from your friends in Japan at J-List!
It's always fun to keep an eye on trends in Japan to see what will flower elsewhere in the world. Kickboards (those silly skateboards with handles) got big here in Japan first, for example, then went on to tempt teenagers in the U.S. and elsewhere after that. We think the next trend you might want to watch out for are "beigoma." A kind of hand-carved metal top, which is spun by throwing it down onto a flat surface while pulling back on a wound string, beigoma are a classic Japanese toy that were played with by everyone 50 years ago, although interest in them almost completely disappeared in the intervening decades. Now Japanese toy makers (and Japanese kids) have discovered the beigoma, and are making colorful and interesting beigoma which are being received by collectors and kids all over Japan. Pokemon and Digimon beigoma are inevitable. Your kids will probably hear about them soon, if they haven't already.
While I was studying Japanese in college, we made use of Japanese homestay students as a great way for me to practice my Japanese and learn about Japan, while exchanging information about my home country with a visitor from Japan. We had several very enjoyable experiences with Japanese homestay students. Now that I live in Japan, I've arranged homestays in the U.S. for several friends and students over the years, and they've enjoyed themselves very much. Unfortunately, more and more I've seen the disturbing specter of commercialism creep into the homestay system, with people opening their homes to foreign students as a money-making enterprise, and offering little or no linguistic or social experience. Students are mixed in with other students, and have no chance to experience many fun aspects of living in a new country. If you're interested in learning more about Japan and teaching about your home country, a great way is to invite a homestay student in your home -- they're almost always housebroken. A phone call to the ESL school attached to a nearby university is a good place to start.
For this evening's update, some new and cool things from Japan, including:
Remember that we can send you a text-based list of the items available on the J-List site regularly -- just reply to this mail, and we'll add your address to the J-List text updates list as well.
It's always fun to keep an eye on trends in Japan to see what will flower elsewhere in the world. Kickboards (those silly skateboards with handles) got big here in Japan first, for example, then went on to tempt teenagers in the U.S. and elsewhere after that. We think the next trend you might want to watch out for are "beigoma." A kind of hand-carved metal top, which is spun by throwing it down onto a flat surface while pulling back on a wound string, beigoma are a classic Japanese toy that were played with by everyone 50 years ago, although interest in them almost completely disappeared in the intervening decades. Now Japanese toy makers (and Japanese kids) have discovered the beigoma, and are making colorful and interesting beigoma which are being received by collectors and kids all over Japan. Pokemon and Digimon beigoma are inevitable. Your kids will probably hear about them soon, if they haven't already.
While I was studying Japanese in college, we made use of Japanese homestay students as a great way for me to practice my Japanese and learn about Japan, while exchanging information about my home country with a visitor from Japan. We had several very enjoyable experiences with Japanese homestay students. Now that I live in Japan, I've arranged homestays in the U.S. for several friends and students over the years, and they've enjoyed themselves very much. Unfortunately, more and more I've seen the disturbing specter of commercialism creep into the homestay system, with people opening their homes to foreign students as a money-making enterprise, and offering little or no linguistic or social experience. Students are mixed in with other students, and have no chance to experience many fun aspects of living in a new country. If you're interested in learning more about Japan and teaching about your home country, a great way is to invite a homestay student in your home -- they're almost always housebroken. A phone call to the ESL school attached to a nearby university is a good place to start.
For this evening's update, some new and cool things from Japan, including:
- First, several new magazines, including a killer of the new Bejean featuring several excellent features -- Kanazawa Bunko, Morishita Kurumi, Fukada Miho and many more
- We've got several issues of Otaka Wide Show, the magazine that shows you old and often embarrassing pictures of Japan's hot idols and actresses when they were unknown
- Also for magazine fans, a bunch of nice back-issue sets of 2 and 3 magazines, for fans of some older magazines from the 1990's
- For leg fans, the new issue of the stellar Mini-Suka Deluxe is in, and it's a great one -- the 50th issue special issue of this great deluxe magazine
- In addition to fresh stock of several popular sold out photobook items, we've got fresh stock of three of our most popular photobooks: Ohura Anna's fanatic "i-Nude," Kawashima Azumi's "Flowing Out," and the incredibly cute Hagiwara Mai's "Maichi"
- For fans of our excellent erotic manga, we've got several very nice erotic offerings from AV Comics, Hit Comics and Do Comix, among others
- If you love yaoi, we've got more yaoi for you -- Satoh Ishihara's "Charisma" and a nice Gundam Wing yaoi dojinshi
- On the DVD pages, two new offerings from the Much-Treasured Sexual Technique Lecture DVD series, which will teach you about shio-fuki (female wet orgasm), bondage and more -- complete with really useful (and erotic) tips and more -- see them on the DVD region 2 page
- For our Japanese snacks page, we've got fresh stock of several types of Japanese teas (which we recommend highly, since we drink them ourselves here at J-List), as well as Morinaga's "Hi-Crown" high-quality chocolate
- We've lowered prices on several of our funny Japanese T-shirts, which we're closing out -- wear a bewildering Japanese message on your shirt, it's funny!
- We're got fresh stock of several of our popular Wacky Things from Japan page
- Finally, fresh stock of Wacky Things from Japan items include a new version of our popular Japanese traditional note paper (genko yoshi), a unique Japanese "money tray" (a tray with a rubberized bottom which is used for handing money to cashier), a giant clamp for your futon, and a desktop calendar that's cool enough that we're even bothering to offer it in February.
Remember that we can send you a text-based list of the items available on the J-List site regularly -- just reply to this mail, and we'll add your address to the J-List text updates list as well.
Friday, February 23, 2001
Greetings from J-List February 23, 2001
Hello again from Japan, where wet umbrellas need condoms...
Today was a balmy and beautiful day, more suited for May than for February. We weren't complaining, and gladly wore short-sleeved T-shirts to enjoy the warmth. Wearing a short-sleeved shirt too early is one of the Japanese "unwritten rules" though -- short sleeves are worn in the summer and early autumn, between June 1 and November 1 (yes, they even have official starting and endings dates, basically, the official dates that high school students change from the winter uniforms to their summer uniforms). To wear "summer clothes" in February in Japan is asking for amazed remarks from all Japanese you encounter. In a similarly inflexible seasonal tradition, in Japan you never go into the ocean after September 1st -- it just isn't done. When you ask why, Japanese vaguely say that it's dangerous (presumably far more than August 31st), but it's clear that they've never deeply considered the reason.
The Americanization of Japan has taken a giant step forward recently, with the impending introduction of "MyLine." This is ostensibly a system allowing you to choose which long distance company you want to use, but is really one big "confusopoly" designed to confuse consumers for the betterment of Japanese phone companies. Japan's monopolistic NTT, newly formed KDDI, and several other companies are competing to be Japan's choice for long distance with cute and amusing TV commercials, but they're all very low on specifics, preferring to be vague about what their rates really are. NTT's ads boast that "NTT has just lowered their rates by 50%." What rates were lowered? What were they before, and what are they now? What is "50%" measured against?
For the weekend's special update, we've got a bunch of cool items from Japan for you, including:
We got a lot of positive feedback from Paypal users. We're glad to be of service, since Paypal is a pretty good system (partally because you don't need a credit card to use it -- which is convenient for people who want to write "virtual checks" from their checking account). We also accept Billpoint, and can probably work with any other system out there (for example, many international customers find Western Union's money-sending services convenient). Please email us with any questions or comments.
Today was a balmy and beautiful day, more suited for May than for February. We weren't complaining, and gladly wore short-sleeved T-shirts to enjoy the warmth. Wearing a short-sleeved shirt too early is one of the Japanese "unwritten rules" though -- short sleeves are worn in the summer and early autumn, between June 1 and November 1 (yes, they even have official starting and endings dates, basically, the official dates that high school students change from the winter uniforms to their summer uniforms). To wear "summer clothes" in February in Japan is asking for amazed remarks from all Japanese you encounter. In a similarly inflexible seasonal tradition, in Japan you never go into the ocean after September 1st -- it just isn't done. When you ask why, Japanese vaguely say that it's dangerous (presumably far more than August 31st), but it's clear that they've never deeply considered the reason.
The Americanization of Japan has taken a giant step forward recently, with the impending introduction of "MyLine." This is ostensibly a system allowing you to choose which long distance company you want to use, but is really one big "confusopoly" designed to confuse consumers for the betterment of Japanese phone companies. Japan's monopolistic NTT, newly formed KDDI, and several other companies are competing to be Japan's choice for long distance with cute and amusing TV commercials, but they're all very low on specifics, preferring to be vague about what their rates really are. NTT's ads boast that "NTT has just lowered their rates by 50%." What rates were lowered? What were they before, and what are they now? What is "50%" measured against?
For the weekend's special update, we've got a bunch of cool items from Japan for you, including:
- First, several great new adult magazines from Japan, including the great new issues of Dela Beppin and Gokuh, as well as several other specialty magazine items
- We've got some cool backissues of older magazines, including some popular older issues of leg fetish magazines like Panst Freak (see magazine pages 1 and 2 for these items)
- For hentai fans, we have not one, but two cool issues of PC Angel, the #1 selling hentai magazine at J-List
- For photobook fans, check out several all-new hardcover photobooks, including Konno Saori and Asagi Sumire's "Best Friend" lesbian-play pictorial
- Also for photobook fans, fresh stock of several older and classic items, back on the list
- For Japan's hentai manga fans, we've got another major update, with more than a half-dozen all-new works from Fujimi, AV Comics, Hit and Tsukasa
- Yaoi fans, there are some very nice "boys charisma" books on the yaoi manga page, all of which feature fantastic artwork and characters
- For Japan's underground artwork fans, we've got some nice single-issue postings of dojinshi, as well as some more popular dojiin-soft CD-ROMs (including more of the very cool CG Box series)
- We've got an unopened copy of Dokyusei 2, the popular 2-CD ROM PC bishojo game
- Another very svelte example of Japan's erotic "V-cinema," AV with very artistic and cinematic production values, is My Sister is a Female Teacher -- this fantastic DVD (region 2) was originally shot to film for a cool look
- Fans of our Japanese snacks pages should check out our latest offerings -- grape and strawberry marshmallows, fresh stock of the popular Mousse Pocky (both white and dark), and just a few boxes of Winter Limited Edition Pocky
- We've got some nice items on our Japanese signs & stickers page, including an enigmatic sticker that says "I love you" and fresh stock of our most popular wooden sign ever
- The new issue of JJ, a beautiful Japanese fashion magazine that's filled with great products (and interesting Japanese ads)
- For anime fans, a PVC figure based on Kamikaze Robber Janus
- Restocked items on our Wacky Things from Japan page include more Hello Kitty chopsticks, several of our popular Japanese notebooks, the handy (and very cheap!) English-Japanese mini-dictionary, and bamboo cooking chopsticks
- Finally, we have a ton of all-new Wacky Things from Japan for you, including new Japanese notebooks (including the perfect diary notebook), a "Fumi Fumi" board for massaging your your abused feet, the world's smallest backpack, a silly "party ticket" with English like "Don't you enjoy our party? Let's enjoy together!" on it, the perfect way to organize your computer's unsightly wires, and more. All very wacky!
We got a lot of positive feedback from Paypal users. We're glad to be of service, since Paypal is a pretty good system (partally because you don't need a credit card to use it -- which is convenient for people who want to write "virtual checks" from their checking account). We also accept Billpoint, and can probably work with any other system out there (for example, many international customers find Western Union's money-sending services convenient). Please email us with any questions or comments.
Tuesday, February 20, 2001
Greetings from J-List February 20, 2001
Hello from the world's #1 producer of vending machines, Japan.
We now live next to the mayor! Over the last three weeks, the city of Isesaki has been in "election mode," with people choosing sides among the five canditates for mayor. Yanai Ichio, the president of the construction company that's right next to our liquor shop (they built our house, actually), made an unsuccessful bid to be Isesaki's mayor in the last election. This time, with the support of those annoying loudspeaker trucks that drive around asking you to vote for their candidate, he actually got elected. We're happy to live next door to the new mayor, but we're even happier to have life return to normal in our house, now that the election is over.
Japanese is a happy, harmonous place, where people seem to have a built-in sense of "joshiki" or common sense. Kids all go to school and study (no homeschooling here), husbands are the "daikoku-bashira," the large black pillars that hold up the family. They is the problem of the Tyrany of the Majority at times, though, which manifests itself in small ways. In Japan, there are almost no vegetarians, and foreigners who want to live vegetarian have trouble "getting along" in Japan as nearly everything here contains something that was made from animals. In Japan, too, most people love milk with 3.7 per cent milk fat or higher -- it's thick and delicious, they say. When I came to Japan,it was very hard to find low fat (1%) milk without searching several stores. Now, low fat is generally available, but non-fat milk (which I prefer) is completely impossible to find. The "majority" just doesn't want it, so no one produces it.
J-List now accepts Paypal for orders. Paypal is a very convenient payment method that lets you register a Paypal ID (your email address) and tie a credit card or checking account to your ID. You can send or receive money using this system -- very convenient for people who want to use "virtual checks" when paying for orders. The checking account option is probably only available through U.S. banks, but the Paypal system in general is international, so it's convenient for many customers worldwide. Of course, J-List always welcome credit card purchases (via our secure online form) and check/money order payments as well.
We're happy to announce that X-Change is at the duplicators, and should be back in a very short time. You can preorder X-Change and get free shipping when it goes out to you. See it on the Bishojo and Hentai page!
For the first J-List update of the week, we've got some cool items for you, including:
Thanks for being a part of J-List -- have a great Monday!
We now live next to the mayor! Over the last three weeks, the city of Isesaki has been in "election mode," with people choosing sides among the five canditates for mayor. Yanai Ichio, the president of the construction company that's right next to our liquor shop (they built our house, actually), made an unsuccessful bid to be Isesaki's mayor in the last election. This time, with the support of those annoying loudspeaker trucks that drive around asking you to vote for their candidate, he actually got elected. We're happy to live next door to the new mayor, but we're even happier to have life return to normal in our house, now that the election is over.
Japanese is a happy, harmonous place, where people seem to have a built-in sense of "joshiki" or common sense. Kids all go to school and study (no homeschooling here), husbands are the "daikoku-bashira," the large black pillars that hold up the family. They is the problem of the Tyrany of the Majority at times, though, which manifests itself in small ways. In Japan, there are almost no vegetarians, and foreigners who want to live vegetarian have trouble "getting along" in Japan as nearly everything here contains something that was made from animals. In Japan, too, most people love milk with 3.7 per cent milk fat or higher -- it's thick and delicious, they say. When I came to Japan,it was very hard to find low fat (1%) milk without searching several stores. Now, low fat is generally available, but non-fat milk (which I prefer) is completely impossible to find. The "majority" just doesn't want it, so no one produces it.
J-List now accepts Paypal for orders. Paypal is a very convenient payment method that lets you register a Paypal ID (your email address) and tie a credit card or checking account to your ID. You can send or receive money using this system -- very convenient for people who want to use "virtual checks" when paying for orders. The checking account option is probably only available through U.S. banks, but the Paypal system in general is international, so it's convenient for many customers worldwide. Of course, J-List always welcome credit card purchases (via our secure online form) and check/money order payments as well.
We're happy to announce that X-Change is at the duplicators, and should be back in a very short time. You can preorder X-Change and get free shipping when it goes out to you. See it on the Bishojo and Hentai page!
For the first J-List update of the week, we've got some cool items for you, including:
- First, some excellent new magazines, including the new Gal's Dee, a great issue for fans of Ms. Morimura Honey
- For bargain hunters, some nice bundles of back-issues of magazines on magazine page 2
- For photobook fans ,we've got some back-in-stock items for you, as well as two classic miniature photobooks of idols from the early 1990's (for fans of these older models)
- For erotic manga lovers, fresh stock of several popular volumes, along with a very classy 2-volume set by Hit based on a classical Chinese dramatic tale -- but with a super hentai twist
- For dojinshi lovers, the fabulous *color* erotic parody dojinshi, Burajiru 2, by our friends at Okachimentaiko (includes cool erotic material from Yamato/Star Blazers and Team Rocket)
- There's a very fresh and interesting video from SOD -- The Kiss Clinic, a 60 minute video featuring only kiss fetish material with men and give lovely kissing gals -- it will change the way you view kissing forever
- Also for fans of kissing, a super all-female "Lez and Kiss Collection" DVD (region 2) featuring the deep kissing and lesbian play of over 200 Japanese gals
- For fans of the best-selling The Kageki DVD, another offering -- the super erotic perforamances of three busty AV queens, Ayukawa Ami, Inoue Chihiro and Morikawa Juri -- on this great 2-DVD set. *Subtitled in English!*
- Anime fans should check out the anime product pages for some cool items, including several classic issues of popular anime magazine from several years ago
- Also very cool for anime fans, the long-awated Kubrick series Evangelion toys. These are "super deformed" figures of Eva characters and Eva mechs, made in a style similar to the Lego people -- very cool
- If you love Japanese professional wrestling, see an incredible item, a collection of photos and information on the major "pro-wres" names over the last 26 years, in a beautiful hardcover package (on the photobooks and Wacky Things from Japan pages)
- Mishimima Yukio was an amazing writer who comitted suicide by comitting Japanese ritual disembowelment (seppuku). We've got a really cool item, the issue of Sunday Mainichi the week after this amazing and shocking event -- see it on the
- There's a wonderful new collectible card series, Bururun Club II, featuring Japan's lovely swimsuit idols
- We've made a major update to our popular Japanese snacks and food page, with fresh stock of Japanese teas, Hi-Chu Banana Shake, miso soup packets (didn't think they'd sell out so fast), several delicious flavors of Lotte's Japanese gum, sake candy (with real sake inside!), Shige-Kicks (extremely sour lemon "hard gummi" that must be tasted to be believed), and more
- We have several new items on our Japanese signs and stickers page, with funny messages in Japanese
- Fresh stock of our popular "Wacky Things" page include the deluxe bamboo wind chime (which makes a very pleasant sound when the wind blows through it) along with fresh stock of some of our most popular cool Japanese notebooks ("this notebook having horizontal ruled line is the best for arranging sentences")
- And, we've got our usual new volley of cool things you've never seen before from Japan, including a Japanese proverb dictionary (useful to anyone studying Japanese and wanting to learn some Japanese sayings), some cool Hello Kitty items that only Japan could make, and the ultimate "pressure point presser" massage tool that looks like something out of Star Trek: Deep Space 9.
Thanks for being a part of J-List -- have a great Monday!
Friday, February 16, 2001
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Thursday, February 15, 2001
Greetings from J-List February 15, 2001
Greetings from Japan, the home of Mazda's popular car, the Bongo Friendy.
Well, Time Ranger has come to an end. In the last episode, the five time fighters took a trip in Time Robo over the past 20 years of sentai shows, since they are time travelers and all that. It was cool, seeing each year's five-team fighting show -- Go Ranger (the first one, which was shown in 1975), Changeman, Car Ranger, Mega Ranger, Gingaman, Go Go Five. The new sentai show is called Gau Ranger ("gau" being a sound in Japanese like "growl"), which will use animal motifs. I noticed that Time Ranger's footage had already started in the U.S. with Power Rangers Time Force.
We've had to say "sayonara" to our Nissan March. In Japan, there's a special car check-up and tax called sha-ken that car owners must pay every two years, which sets you back about $1400 each time. It's a cleverly disguised government-sponsored system to encourage people to buy new cars sooner than they would, and discourages keeping older cars. Since we got our Saturn, we haven't used the March much at all, so rather than pay the tax, we're going to scrap the car. Unfortunately, there are no economic ways of using the car, as the sha-ken tax exceeds the value of the car. In the U.S., when you scrap a car, you get a few hundred dollars out of it, at least. Here in Japan, the owner of the car must pay $200 to have the car taken away.
For this evening's update, we've got some nice items for you as usual, including:
Okay, please go check out the website now!
Well, Time Ranger has come to an end. In the last episode, the five time fighters took a trip in Time Robo over the past 20 years of sentai shows, since they are time travelers and all that. It was cool, seeing each year's five-team fighting show -- Go Ranger (the first one, which was shown in 1975), Changeman, Car Ranger, Mega Ranger, Gingaman, Go Go Five. The new sentai show is called Gau Ranger ("gau" being a sound in Japanese like "growl"), which will use animal motifs. I noticed that Time Ranger's footage had already started in the U.S. with Power Rangers Time Force.
We've had to say "sayonara" to our Nissan March. In Japan, there's a special car check-up and tax called sha-ken that car owners must pay every two years, which sets you back about $1400 each time. It's a cleverly disguised government-sponsored system to encourage people to buy new cars sooner than they would, and discourages keeping older cars. Since we got our Saturn, we haven't used the March much at all, so rather than pay the tax, we're going to scrap the car. Unfortunately, there are no economic ways of using the car, as the sha-ken tax exceeds the value of the car. In the U.S., when you scrap a car, you get a few hundred dollars out of it, at least. Here in Japan, the owner of the car must pay $200 to have the car taken away.
For this evening's update, we've got some nice items for you as usual, including:
- First, a killer new magazine & video CD combo -- a new issue of Club Indies, with 70 minutes of sample footage that's really bizarre and cool, very different from the "pro" workd of AV
- For hentai fans, a very special issue of Fantasienne is posted, with a cool sampler CD-ROM and large poster inside -- see the hentai magazine page
- We have several very nice new photobooks, including Kawashima Azumi's lovely Flowing Out" and more copies of the popular Yoshino Minami's very lovely "Haru" photobook
- For our erotic manga fans, another large update of all-new books, including some shocking fetish manga
- For dojinshi fans, a treat -- not one, not two, but three new Okachimentaiko erotic dojinshi, including their all-ero tribute to Gundam, and a book dedicated exclusively to game girls
- Fresh stock of several hentai art books on our hentai art books page
- For DVD fans who buy region 2 discs, two very cool items from SOD -- one, a very high-quality erotic V-cinema creation by Tohjiro and Asaoka Mirei, and an educational DVD (?) on how to do anal sex
- For hentai DVD fans, two new items -- Elf's popular Wordsworth erotic fantasy anime, vol. 2 and 3
- For fans of the lovely Morishita Kurumi, a super item -- a dual-VHS featuring the surface (omote) and secret self (ura) of Kurumi, in a super idol video + AV video dual set, shot on location in Saipan
- For anime fans, some really cool older issues of Animage, including some very rare and cool ones, on the anime toys page
- Also on our anime & toys page, the much-requested Zeta Gundam fully posable toy from Bandai
- On our Japanese snacks & food page, a treat -- three flavors of "furikake," which is tasty, dried food you sprinkle over white rice, which includes ingredients like tiny bits of dried scrambled egg, sesame, dried leafy vegetables, and pieces of salmon. Loved by children and adults in Japan, furikake is a great healthy food for you.
- On our Wacky Japanese signs & stickers page, several cool new items, including more of the "Looking for a beautiful woman" sticker, and sticker for all "safety drivers"
- Restocked items on our popular Wacky Things page include more Hello Kitty toilet paper (for those who really love or really hate Kitty-chan), more authentic Japanese loose socks and Socks Glue to go with them, and more excellent Japanese correction pens
- Finally, we've got several nice new items on the Wacky Things page as well -- funky Japanese 'days of the week' magnets, a fashionable Japanese knit bag (all the rage this winter), and a deluxe long wooden shoehorn for fans of these useful items.
Okay, please go check out the website now!
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