Greetings from J-List August 16, 2002

Hello again from Japan, the home of a popular "creaming powder" for coffee known as "Creap."

One unique side of Japan are the "love hotels" that pop up here and there throughout the country, especially in rural areas. Because Japanese young people usually live with their parents into their 20s (or indefinitely, if they're the oldest son or daughter), it can be difficult for couples to find time for privacy. So they go to a love hotel, where they can enjoy "rest" (2 hours of privacy) or "stay" (all night). Formerly known as "motels," which causes some confusion when Japanese go to the U.S. and see motels there, the rooms inside love hotels have everything couples might need -- exotic baths to clean themselves, a condom on the pillow, toothbrushes, and so on. Many love hotels are organized around a theme, such as the Queen Elizabath (a giant hotel that looks like a ship), or rooms that look like the Forbidden City in Beijing. The most famous love hotel in Gunma is called The Rock, and everything in the rooms is based on Alcatraz -- but it's so popular, you have to wait to get in. Since couples going to a hotel want privacy, the hotels make sure they never need to see anyone -- at some places, you can check out by phone, and put your money in a tube that will be delivered to the front desk.

I've talked before about Japan's tendency to give in to the "tyranny of the masses" -- for example, skim milk is impossible to find in Japan because most Japanese like thick, creamy milk with 4.7 per cent milkfat, so only the majority gets what it wants. In a similar show of over-uniformity, Japanese parents tend to "fix" children who show signs of left-handedness, and force them to use their right hands -- this happened to my wife when she was a child. The rationale when my wife was young was that kids need to learn how to do math using an abacus, which can only be used with the right hand. Supposedly they don't "fix" lefties anymore, but I distinctly remember my wife gently "correcting" our son Kazuki when he was a baby and tried to do something with his left hand. Incidentally, my wife has the equivalent of a brown belt in abacus calculation, and can sit there and add up complex numbers even by moving her hand over an imagery abacus -- she doesn't need a real one.

For the new update, we've got an extra special selection of new items for you, including:

• First, we have a cool treat for Macross/Robotech fans: the new series of *transforming* toys from Banpresto -- all five of the very cool Valkyrie fighters (full sets also available)
  
• If you love Astro Boy, the very first Japanese animation series ever, we've got fresh stock of the beautiful recreation of Astro Boy in flight, complete with case
  
• For Hello Kitty fans, we've got a really cool series of "collectible mascots" that come with cute little metal suitcase tins, they're great!
  
• We've gotten in fresh stock of the Studio Ghibli DVD player, a beautiful designed player that comes with many great extras, including full Dolby and DTS support, two remote controls (including an "acorn remote" that is just too cool), and English menus. Supply of these players is really drying up in Japan, so get yours before they become unavailable
  
• For fans of our fun Japanese snacks, we've got several items, including green tea flavored choco sticks, tasty "honey black candy," tasty Japanese rice crackers and miso soup, and more
  
• If you love Gamera, the huge flying turtle monster, we've got a cool Gamera 2 Perfect Analysis data book that's really cool
  
• Also, fresh stock of one of our most popular (and wacky) items, sushi gummi, fruit flavored gummi "sushi" on marshmallow "rice" with chocolate soy sauce -- it's so fun to eat!
  
• For fans of Japanese gum, we've restocked several varieties, and added a super strong mint gum for people worried about "etiquette" and bad breath
  
• We have cute notebooks, including a Little Twin Star coloring book and a new Hamtaro "free note" (i.e. a notebook with blank pages you can draw in) with included "rocket pencil"
  
• For collectors of beautiful trading cards from Japan, be sure to check out the Seventh Sanctuary cards we just got in
  
• A cute but slightly weird-looking character called Umi-Nin (Sea-Man) is in stock, if you're a fan of off-color Japanese plush characters
  
• We've restocked our famous authentic loose socks and loose socks glue (which is used to hold the socks up high)
  
• For fans of Inu Yasha, the hit anime by Rumiko Takahashi, we've got the film comic of the theatrical release in stock
  
• If you love Japanese food, especially noodles, we've got a great way to enjoy them!
  
• Finally, check out a funky ice cube tray, a wacky wooden sign to hang up when you've got a broken heart, a way to keep mosquitoes away while outside, and more!
  
• For our adult customers, we've got many new 18+ products. The new items include:
  
• We have the new issue of the oversized Bejean, and a lovely issue it is, filed with beautiful adult video idols from Japan
  
• For fans of magazines that come with sampler Video CDs, enjoy the new PC King, with 2 hours of sampler video for you!
  
• We've got some very nice new hardcover photobooks in stock, including a beautiful one with the Nana Natsume's pure nude, and a great item for fans of Garo Aida
  
• For doujinshi collectors, we've got some nice new in stock doujinshi for you, although they will go fast since they're all brand new releases from the summer 2002 Comic Market and we've only got limited stock of each
  
• Also for fans of hentai illustrations, we've got some excellent new hentai manga, including a super new issue from Shiwasu no Okina (comes complete with color pages and a set of four collectible cards)
  
• Also for manga lovers, we've got a major update of back in stock items, including other Shiwasu no Okina volumes, books by Chataro and more
  
• We have fresh stock of the very lovely The Newest Anime Collection, an art book with information on hentai anime in Japan
  
• If you love the excellent English-dubbed hentai DVDs we've been adding to the J-List site, we've got more for you, four new boxed sets of excellent hentai anime, and all uncensored! All stocked in San Diego, too...
  
• For fans of adult DVD entertainment, we've got some very nice new titles in, starting with a new "obscene lesbian kissing" DVD from SOD, which features all amateurs (region free)
  
• There's a great "Sperm Lesbian" 2-in-1 production with 140 minutes of excellent performances by top AV stars (including Nao Hirosue) (region free)
  
• We have two great new indies performances by a new company, Janes -- see super hardcore sex with Ai Nagase and Shinobu Kasagi (both region free)
  
• AV director Tohjiro has created a new "best hits of hugging from behind" erotic DVD series, which sounds silly, but it's really erotic and cool to see (region free)
  
• Finally, fresh stock of several DVD titles, including Adult Video Wrestling (pro wrestling with an erotic twist), the best of Ami Ayukawa, as well as many region 2 DVDs (good for those with region free players!).
  

Remember that J-List carries 6- and 12-month subscriptions to some of our most popular adult magazines, like Urecco, Gal's Dee, and Beajean. We also carry many other magazines by revolving subscription, a system by which we reserve each current issue of that magazine for you every month. Check out our magazine subscription pages for more information!

The "top 5" lists have been updated again, so you can see what everyone else is buying at J-List. Click on each list to bring up those items on the J-List site.

Greetings from J-List August 14, 2002

Hello again from your friends in Japan!

It's August, and in Japan, that meant heat and humidity. And for fans of baseball, it also means it's time for the "World Series" of high school baseball, Koshien. Named for the stadium near Kobe where the games are played, Koshien is a national series of games to determine which team from each of Japan's 48 prefectures will win the championship. There are many fans of high school baseball, and the games are televised, so fans can follow their favorite teams and players. The dream of being on a team that goes to Koshien is very big with middle-aged Japanese men, many of whom relive their own youth each year through the Koshien games. There's an entire category of high school baseball comics in which the goal of the characters is always to go to the "dream stadium" at Koshien. (The artist of one of the most famous of these baseball mangas, Touch, happens to hail from Isesaki, where J-List is located.)

In many ways, you can sum up Japanese education with two words: inclusion and competition. Throughout elementary and junior high school, one of the main goals of the Japanese educational system is to organize all children into happy, secure units where they feel that they're members of the group. For everyone to function in harmony with each other, each member must be more or less the same "color" as everyone else, so wild variations in individuality are quietly discouraged. In junior high school, students are forced to join clubs (tennis club, volleyball club, drama club, etc.), which further teaches them the dynamics of getting along inside a group. After junior high school, it's time to learn about competition: students must take a difficult test to get into the high school of their choice, and there's a lot of competition to get into the best schools (it's possible for students to fail the entrance exam and become "high school ronins," who go to no school while they prepare to try again next year). In high school, events like the race for the Koshien baseball championship introduces more competition, which of course culminates in the famous university entrance exams, which students must take if they want to get into a good university.

We're sometimes asked why items shipped from Japan aren't available through shippers like FedEx or DHL. Unfortunately, while these companies have partnered with Japanese shipping companies to serve the international market, in reality the rates these companies charge is outrageously high -- FedEx wants $40 to deliver a single DVD, for example. If you want to order our unique products from Japan and are in a hurry, we recommend EMS, a very speedy mail service brought to you by national post offices. EMS rates are very affordable, and we can get your package to you in about four business days in most cases. And you can track your package on the web to find where it is. We've recently lowered our rates for EMS, and added separate rates for Asia/U.S./Canada, and Europe. Because the package will be delivered by your normal postman, there's no problem shipping to PO Boxes, too. Thanks, and enjoy the new lower rates!

An artist we've been honored to work with is Borderline creator Sakaki Naomoto, an artist who creates CG images for distribution to fans at Japan's famous Comic Market (these CG collections are called doujin-soft in Japanese, since they are a "software" version of doujinshi). We've been promoting this artist's works for years -- he created our official mascot character -- and for the rest of the month, we're offering free shipping (US/Canada) on his great collections of artwork on CD-ROM. You can now get Borderline 2 ~ Breathe and Borderline 3 ~ Frozen Beach, and we'll pay the shipping!

For the new update, we've got some great items from Japan for you, including:

• First, a great item for Star Wars fans: a talking R2D2 game in which 2-4 players put "tools" into R2's body as the game progresses -- select the wrong slot, and R2 "explodes," shooting Luke's lightsaber from the top of his head. It's cool, and only released in the Japanese market by Tomy!
  
• For Japanese toy fans, we've got a super-deluxe Fujiko Mine from the Lupin III universe, complete with three outfits to put on
  
• Also, a cute set of "trading figures" of the cute character Ruri, from Martain Successor Nadesico
  
• For Hello Kitty fans, a beautiful Sanrio Kitty digital watch made by Casio that's really cool
  
• Hamtaro is heating up in the U.S., and we've got a cute item for you: little plush hamster mascots that are useful as keychains and come with delicious Ramune candy (full sets available)
  
• We have new and back-in-stock swimsuit idol, Race Queen and other photobook items for you, including the very sexy photobook of Yu Abiru
  
• For fans of our Japanese snacks, we have many new items for you, including delicious Japanese "Puchirin" hard candy, Japanese soy sauce candy (they taste better than they sound), and more
  
• Also, a huge restock of snack items, including Hamtaro Candy w/ Figure, delicious Ramune candy, spicy wasabi, and more
  
• Japan has many cool things, and one category we like are the very cool eyedrops which wake you up by stimulating your eyes. We've gotten in some nice new eyecare items for you, including one suitable for kids (non-stimuilating)
  
• We love things with funny English on them, and we've got some fun and functional pencil cases for you (on our "study items, notebooks" page)
  
• For Kubrick fans, an esoteric item: figures from the French film Amelie, that was a big hit here in Japan
  
• Finally, look for a little fashionable backpack popular with kogals in Japan, a Japanese "inviting cat" lucky phone strap, fresh stock of Japanese "fude-pens" (pens that let you write as if you were using a Chinese brush), Hello Kitty spoons, bento boxes, unique Japanese ear cleaners, "The Dog" items, and more!
  

For our adult customers, we've got many new 18+ products, including:

• For fans of Japan's famous adult magazines, we've got new ones for you, including the new Gokuh, a great oversized issue filled with lovely AV idols
  
• For sexy photobook fans, enjoy an erotic new leg fetish photobook with lost of "costume play," as well as an erotic rip-off of the famous Yellows series
  
• Also, the incredibly beautiful model "Aoba" who not only poses elegantly in a new photobook, she goes far beyond
  
• In a rare item, we've got an all-gaijin book for fans who want to see beautiful blonde Western women through the eyes of the Japanese
  
• For hentai manga artists, we have some great new books, including a superb one by Bijogi Junction and a dynamite new work by Takuma Harazaki (!)
  
• Also, a big restock of adult manga, including the Blue Eyes series from Tohru Nishimaki and the excellent Sex Beast Vaginass series!
  
• We've posted even more high-quality hentai DVD titles and boxed sets from Nutech, which ship out of our San Diego office for your
  
• For Japanese adult DVD lovers, we've got an extra-good lineup for you today, starting with a superb selection of 150 minutes of her works, from Kuki, with never before released photos, too (region free)
  
• From Soft on Demand, a superb new Deep Kiss Contest with eight drop-dead girls, exploring the deep eros of lesbian "deep kissing" (region free)
  
• Also from SOD, a wacky new "Magic Mirror" release in which girls do outrageous things inside the one-way-mirror windows of the Magic Mirror box car (region free)
  
• In a new offering from Dogma and famous AV director Tohjiro, Kurumi Morishita is your "M sister," receiving whatever cruelty you want to dish out (region free)
  
• Also from Dogma, the lovely Ai Hiyoshi plays an erotic female doctor in a great new fetish production (region free)
  
• The lovely and busty Sakura Sena looks beautiful as she performs in a new release from Marx Bros.
  
• Finally, we've restocked many DVDs, including back-in-stock lesbian titles, excellent works by Soft on Demand and other studios, and several of our most popular soft porn DVD releases (Mai Hagiwara, Anna Ohura, Maiko Kazano, etc.).
  

We get a lot of questions about the sizes of our funny Japanese T-shirts. All our shirts are 100% cotton shirts purchased and printed in the USA, using 6.1 lb cotton, the same as Hanes Beefy T. The sizes are standard USA sizes, so hopefully it's not difficult for you to select the size you need. Because we want to serve all our customers, J-List goes out of our way to stock all sizes for our shirts, from size S all the way up through XXXL. All sizes are in stock at all times in our San Diego shipping center, so please let us know how we can serve you?

The J-Mate site has been updated yet again, with a review of the just-posted Deep Kiss, one of their best works in the series ever. You can also read a new English interview with the director of the Deep Kiss series, Chie Sugawara. Only from J-List and J-Mate! The J-Mate site's URL is http://www.jmate.com/

Greetings from J-List August 12, 2002

Greetings from Japan! I had an uneventful trip back to Japan, and it's nice to be home again. Although I'd forgotten how hot and humid Japan is in August...

Before I came to Japan ten years ago, I had many pre-conceived notions about what I would find. One was that the Japanese were very cool on the subject of religion and I would not find many Japanese with strong religious beliefs. Although this has held true for the most part, I was surprised to find that there were many religions active in Japan, including Baptists (I was asked to play "Santa-san" at the Maebashi Baptist Church my first Christmas here, because they thought it was more authentic to have a gaijin Santa), Catholics (there's a Catholic church in Maebashi that was mysteriously saved when the city was bombed in the final days of World War II), Mormons (they give free English lessons to get converts), even Jehova's Witnesses. The Church of Scientology exists in Japan (it's called "Koufuku no Kagaku" or "The Science of Happiness"), as well as several Japanese religious movements, some of which are quite dangerous, the most famous of these being the Aum Shinrikyo group that was responsible for nerve gas attacks in Tokyo in 1995 as well the tragic murder of a lawyer named Sakamoto and his family.

One powerful religion that has its roots in Japanese Buddhism is called Soka Gakkai, the only "evangelical" Buddhism I've seen. It's quite easy to compare Soka Gakkai to Mormonism, as it is a relatively new religion that claims roots going back thousands of years (it aims to recreate what members consider to be the "true" Buddhism, Nichiren, established in the 13th century AD); and members actively work to spread the religion to others. Soka Gakkai exploded as a religious movement after World War II, and grew so powerful that they made their own political party, the Komeito, which is the third largest party in Japan (although there are supposedly no longer any official ties between the party and the religion). There's a lot of criticism of some of the tactics the group has used in the past to get new members, and a quick search on Google brought up pages that were both very much for and against the group. If you're interested in seeing the official homepage of Soka Gakkai International and its form of Buddhism, the URL is http://www.sgi-usa.org/

For the new update, we've got a huge list of cool new items from Japan just for you. They include:

• First, we've got a most excellent item for Star Wars fans, a series of five characters and vehicles released in the Japanese market by Tomy -- only sold in Japan, and extremely cool for fans of classic Star Wars moments!
  
• Also, a drop-dead cool item for fans of Hayao Miyazaki's popular film Spirited Away, we have limited stock of the Spirited Away Collector's Edition, featuring a very detailed recreation of Yubaba's inn, three beautiful posters, a dynamite book *in English* with background on the film and Miyazaki's other movies, the movie on DVD, and more
  
• We love the excellent hardcover swimsuit and sexy idol photobooks Japan prints, and we have new ones for you, including the very sexy Ayu Okakura, and more
  
• For anime and toy collectors, we've got some nice from-Japan-only items, including an excellent (and huge) Bastard!! "high end figure," and a cool Gio Gio's Excellent Adventure item as well
  
• Also, another excellent "wedding Kitty" set of plushes, featuring Hello Kitty and her hubby, Daniel, getting married in traditional Japanese style (we've recently restocked the other one we had in stock, too)
  
• For fans of Hello Kitty, we've got a super new Hello Kitty "Pet Bottle" (Kitty is your pet, get it?) featuring one of 12 very cute Kitty characters and delicious fruit-flavored hard candies inside
  
• Also for Japanese snack fans, we've got several new items, including delicious blueberry candy, sweet mints, new delicious miso soup, and much more!
  
• If you love the popular anime Love Hina, we've got a very nice set of collectible trading cards that are lovely
  
• Finally, see many new "wacky things from Japan" including fans, a spiffy Hello Kitty toothbrush for your little ones, a Doraemon water balloon maker, a super way to shine shoes, and more!
  

For our adult customers, we've got many new 18+ products, as you can probably imagine. They include:

• First, the excellent new issue of Urecco, overflowing with dynamite AV idols and nude models that are just beautiful
  
• Other great magazines too, including the very sexy Nurse no Oshigoto (A Nurse's Job), and more
  
• We have new and restocked nude photobooks, including a great new pocket-sized erotic photobook that features fabulous photography with an "nameless" amateur model
  
• Also, a great leg-and-costume fetish photobook featuring a huge A-list of top AV stars and great sexy lingerie
  
• For collectors of Japan's unique erotic comics, we've got another update of great titles for you, along with restocked titles for you, too
  
• J-List now stocks U.S. release hentai DVDs from Nutech and other companies, all translated into English and totally uncensored -- we've posted boxed sets of some great titles, including Welcome to Pia Carrot 1 and 2, EL and the famous Cool Devices (all are region 1)
  
• For erotic DVD lovers, see many new items posted for you, starting with a superb performance by Akira Watase, who is hunting male virgins in a new release from SOD (region free)
  
• Also very cool, Ruri Anno learns how to eat "bukkake" in the hilariously named "How do you do, Mr. Semen?" (region free)
  
• The lovely Nozomu Momoi is fucked and teased for four hours straight in a great release from Million (region free)
  
• See the "virgin performance" (the first on-camera hardcore sex) of four dynamite AV idols in an *English subtitled* release from HMP (region free)
  
• For lesbian fans, we've got a really lovely all-female performance from Glory Quest (region free)
  
• For indies fans, a very nice erotic "Nama Guerilla" performance by Yuuna Mizusawa, who willingly has sex in public places (region 2)
  
• Finally, Tomo's done a restock of many popular DVDs, including Holed Panties vol. 1 (fun with scissors, panties and CCD cameras), new tekoki and bukkake DVDs, Airi Kago having sex in a dancing school, and more!
  

Remember that J-List carries many cool things from Japan. One category we like a lot are the bilingual manga from Kodansha, which feature real Japanese comics with dialogue both in English and Japanese. Great for students of Japanese or anyone who just wants to enjoy the comics in English, you can enjoy titles like Love Hina, Cardcaptor Sakura, Ah My Goddess, and more.

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Greetings from J-List July 20, 2002

[Apologies if you are receiving this message twice. We had a problem with our mail server and have had to resend last night's J-List update.]

Greetings from Japan, where they love to invent words like "amenity communicator."

Well, the existence of God has proven -- we have our very first Starbuck's in Isesaki. Ever since the company entered the Japanese market five years ago, Starbuck's has quickly become a household name, bringing their coffee beans and delicious beverages to all corners of Japan. They're so popular in Japan that it's uncommon to wait in a line for 30 minutes in Tokyo just to order, and it's very rare that you can sit down and relax in a Starbuck's. Actually, in more crowded restaurants, they have "standing tables" that have no chairs -- you just lean against the table as you drink your matcha frapachino. Starbuck's are by no means rare or special in America, so I'm sure no one gets excited by yet another one opening. But to a foreigner living in rural Japan, it's great news. We were also fortunate enough to happen by the store during their "open house," where they gave out free coffee to everyone that wanted some. Incidentally, Japanese Starbuck's drink sizes start with "small," a small 8 oz cup, which would be far too small for Americans to drink.

Often, when products from America or Europe are marketed in Japan, they are sold by Japanese companies who license the brands from their owners. I can enjoy drinks like Canada Dry Ginger Ale or Bireley's orange drink, but they don't come from Canada or the UK -- they come from the good old Asahi Beverage Company, and you can see the little Asahi corporate mark, hidden somewhere in the packaging. Nabisco goods are popular in Japan, but products like Ritz crackers are really made here by Yamazaki Bread Company and sold under the Ritz brand name. Recently, Tic Tacs (a word which sounds like "tick tock" to the Japanese) have appeared in Japan, courtesy of the Morinaga Confectionery Company. Oh well, they taste the same.

For the new pre-weekend update, we've got an extra special volley of items for you, including:

• First and foremost, we're happy to announce that the film that sunk Titanic as the top-grossing film in Japan's history, Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away, is in stock! A great 2-DVD set featuring English and French subtitles and much more, this is a wonderful film we hope you will not miss!
  
• Speaking of Studio Ghibli, we've got extremely limited stock of a super item: the Studio Ghibli DVD player, a beautiful compact region 2 DVD player that comes with many extras, including a copy of Spirited Away -- you have to see this thing to believe it!
  
• Everyone in Japan knows there are some cool Hello Kitty items made in Japan, like Kitty refrigerators and even a limited edition Hello Kitty car made by Daihatsu. Well, we're happy to announce that we've gotten in two excellent Hello Kitty toasters that brighten your kitchen toast your bread with Kitty's face on it
  
• We have some nice new hardcover photobooks for fans of Japan's lovely swimsuit idols
  
• We have some great new snack and food products for you, including a giant box of delicious Morinaga milk caramels, CC Lemon vitamin C candy, and cold Matcha drink mix that is just great
  
• Also, restocking of many items, including our popular mugi tea deluxe set, chocolate covered sunflower seeds, Shigekix sour "hard gummi," Meiji's Banana Choco, and more!
  
• Also, we've got stock of Wata Gum, a great Japanese gum that is like cotton candy (wata means "cotton" in Japanese), but when you put it in your mouth it turns to gum
  
• We have some cool toys in stock for, including toys based on Kellogg's cereal's characters, a positively cool Kubrick Bible, and a cool deluxe "The Dog" ashtray
  
• Other Hello Kitty items include Hello Kitty straws, more of those popular Kitty mayonaise cups which have so many uses, a Hello Kitty mechanical pencil, and more Kitty bento boxes
  
• Also, fresh stock of Hamster Club chopsticks, more bento related items like the fish soy sauce bottles, little cutters that turn sausages into cute little penguins, Buddhist incense, a handy little shaver, and more!
  

For our adult customers, we've got many new 18+ products. They include:

• First, we're happy to announce that our best-selling Hentai Anime Poker, a game in which you take on lovely girls of anime in five games of strip poker (including Texas Hold 'Em), now comes with all 12 expansion pack girls free (a $25 value) -- so you can enjoy everything about this great game!
  
• We have new magazines for fans of Japan's lovely ladies, including the new Chibikkuri, devoted to short girls (under 5 feet or 150 cm), which is a major fetish in Japan
  
• We have new erotic photobooks, including a great item from Aida Garo, the famous Japanese nude photographer, and more
  
• For hentai manga collectors, enjoy the new works we've got in stock for you, including new "dick girl" comics (always a popular theme), a great game girl parody manga, and more
  
• Also, a great new yaoi manga featuring the works of 14 different talented artists -- great for fans of Japan's famous homosexual comics
  
• For fans of U-Jin, perhaps the single most famous Japanese hentai artist, we have more copies of that excellent Candy art book
  
• In San Diego, we've gotten in fresh stock of the popular Blue Eyes English-language manga, all ready for you to order
  
• We have more of the cool plastic paper protectors and shitajiki (plastic paper underlays) that have beautiful bishoujo game images on them
  
• For DVD fans we have many new items for you, starting with the "younger sister" of Kurumi Morishita, the lovely Ringo Kihara, age 19, who appears in her debut production (region free)
  
• The lovely and experienced Yukari Sakurada stars in "Endless Semen," a very erotic new festival of bukkake by Dogma and Tohjiro (region free)
  
• From Soft on Demand, a great new exploration of "obscene kissing of amateur girls," great for fans of Deep Kiss (region free)
  
• Also, yet another cool "Amateur Bukkake" DVD release, in which naive girls learn about bukkake and semen and more (region free)
  
• Finally, the lovely Sayaka Tsutsumi is an erotic ninja in a great new offering Natural High (region free).
  

J-List is very happy with the popularity of our wacky Japanese message T-shirts, which are selling very well. We get questions from customers regarding the T-shirts, some of whom are afraid that the T-shirts come in Japanese sizes. Happily, our T-shirts are all printed in the USA, on 100% cotton T-shirts (6.1 weight, the same as Hanes Beefy-T). To better serve you, we now stock all sizes of shirts, from size S all the way up to XXXL, and T-shirts ship out daily from our San Diego office.

Greetings from J-List July 15, 2002

Hello again from the land of the rising sun!

The war for control of Japan's beer market continues to rage. The two biggest companies, Asahi and Kirin, keep taking the lead back from each other, as each tries to come up with new ways to steal market share from their rival. Currently, Asahi has 39 per cent of the market, and Kirin 35 per cent. The market has undergone many changes since the emergence of happo-shu, a kind of beer that is made slightly differently than normal beer, although I don't understand the difference at all (happo-shu just tastes like beer to me, although it's not terribly good). Because the taxes on happo-shu are much lower than on beer, it's much cheaper for consumers, and this has sparked a price war that has brought the prices of virtually all alcoholic beverages down to as much as half what they were a few years ago, contributing to Japan's deflationary spiral. The current price leader is Suntory, though, with their new "Ad Draft Happo-shu." To lower the cost of the beer, other companies can advertise right on the front of the can. It's about $1.10 a can.

Do you have a cat's tongue? If so, it means that you can't eat hot food or drink hot drinks, just like a cat. The Japanese say that anyone who avoids hot food has a cat's tongue (neko jita). What is you have lazy eye? If so, then you are "rom-pari" which is Japanese for "Rome, Paris" -- i.e. one eye is looking at Rome and the other is looking at Paris. If you're thinning on top, you might have "bar code hair," as the Japanese say. Opening a bag of chips along its spine, so that the bag is spread out with the chips sitting on top, is called "omanko ake" (oh-MAHN-ko AH-kay), which literally means "to open so that it resembles the female private region." And if you sneeze, the Japanese say that someone must be gossiping about you (this comes up in anime quite often).

First of all, we're happy to announce that we'll be carrying U.S. release hentai DVDs in our San Diego office. We've got a few nice items in stock now, and will add more and more as time goes by. All DVDs will be stocked in San Diego for your ordering convenience. Feedback on the new Hentai DVD (USA) category is welcome.

Also, we've located the last remaining stock on the earth of our best-selling game Season of the Sakura, a very detailed love simulation game from the DOS era in which you interact with eight different girls (who look suspiciously like the characters from Evangelion, Rayearth and St. Tail). As a service to our loyal fans, we are making the last stock available at just $5. Also, look for an announcement of interest to fans of the early JAST USA games in week or so.

For the new update, we've got a lot of very nice wacky and bizarre items, starting with:

• First, our very popular T-shirt line continues to sell well, and we've got a new one for you: a famous Japanese insult ("Your mother has a protruding navel") captured in one of our unique and bizarre T-shirts
  
• We have some nice items for fans of beautiful swimsuit idols, including a gotta-have hardcover photobook for fans of Yuko Oguro, the charming 18 year old lovely idol
  
• We've been bowled over by the popularity of the only-released-in-Japan items like the deluxe Light Saber and Star Wars lighting necklaces, so we've gotten more -- everything is now in stock, ready to go out to you
  
• We've got some excellent new toy items, including a cool Gundam posable figure and cool toys from a popular manga in Japan, Gio Gio's Bizarre Adventure
  
• Restocked toy items include the Reservoir Dogs Kubrick sets that sold out so fast, fresh stock of the popular Totoro Doll Collection, new figures and other items from Spirited Away, and more
  
• For Hello Kitty fans, we've got fresh stock of the Hello Kitty Ping Pong set, along with many new items, including Kitty chopstick holders, Kitty hand mirrors, and much more
  
• Also, we have fresh stock of the very cool Cup Noodle coffee cups that so just so cool
  
• New snack items include delicious "Beer Pretz," spicy pretz that are made to taste extra good when eaten with beer
  
• Also fresh stock of many items, including the long gummi strings called Himo-Q, tasty fried rice from Japan, Hamutaro onigiri mix, new miso soup, and more!
  
• We've got the excellent trading cards of a super cute idol group called "Last Alive" too
  
• We've got a cool "fortune egg," a egg that you break to reveal a different "lucky cat" inside that tells your fortune
  
• Finally, new "wacky things from Japan" include a large bento box, cool sakura rice bowls, a dandy keychain which will keep you from losing your keys, more wacky erasers, and more!

For our adult customers, we've got many new 18+ products. They include:

• First, we have the new Urecco, and it's a great issue, filled with Japan's top AV idols and models for you, including Megumi Osawa and Misa Nishida!
  
• We have some nice rare older issues of magazines in stock, including a great item for Natsuko Tohno fans (very rare)
  
• Also, cool new love hotel and kogal magazines for you to check out
  
• We have great erotic photobook items for you too, starting with a new photobook in the bad-assed Yinling of Joytoy series, featuring Yinling, the knock-down gorgeous Taiwanese Race Queen
  
• For manga lovers, we have a bunch of great new manga volumes for you, including fantasy erotic manga from Akane Comics, an incredible "dick girl" offering from Angel Comics, fun with cosplay, and much more
  
• Also, for fans of bishoujo games and anime, see the dynamite paper protectors, beautiful plastic sleeves which you can keep important papers inside, but printed with incredible bishoujo artwork
  
• For DVD collectors, many more items, starting with the erotic "The Idol" series release from Kuki, featuring three full video productions on a single DVD for you -- 180 minutes! (region free)
  
• For fans of anime cosplay erotica, see the great new Cosplay Hunter from Big Morkal, with Capcom game cosplay sex, elevator girl costumes, and more (region free)
  
• Kurumi Morishita has had one of the most amazing careers of any Indies AV idol, and you can see the best of her works from 1998-1999 in a new 120 minute release by SOD (region free)
  
• See the lovely Sayaka Tsutsumi be teased and bullied by everyone around here in another great offering by SOD (region free)
  
• For indies DVD fans, enjoy the incredibly sexy and bold "hip and vagina" performance by Mai Kuramoto, just dynamite (region 2)
  
• Also, a really cool "Erosty Dance" DVD featuring incredibly sexy girls who do nothing but dance erotically for 90 minutes -- it's one of the coolest concepts we've seen in a long time (region 2)
  
• Finally, Tomo has added a bunch of new-in-stock DVDs for you, including Lesbian Girls' School, Ayaka Fujisaki's excellent Bondage DX, Love Shake with Mirai Hoshizaki, the best-selling DVD by busty Kimiko Matsuzaka, and more!

J-List sells many cool things from Japan, including the low-priced boxes anime toy and snack sets like the Captain Harlock and Thunderbirds toys. Availability is always very limited on these items, so please hurry lest we run out before you can get the items you wanted. The full sets of the Harlock toys are running out fast, so we recommend you get them soon if you're interested.

Remember that until the end of the month, or while supplies last, you will get a free DVD present from us for every $100 in DVDs you spend at J-List, as our way of saying thanks. Each free DVD will be worth at least $10. Thanks for your support and enjoy your gift from J-List!

Greetings from J-List July 10, 2002

Hello from a very wet Japan. We're about to be visited by Typhoon No. 6, a big, mean storm that's set to touch down in the Kanto region (where Tokyo and Gunma are) sometime during the night. Hope we don't get washed away!

You may be familiar with the word "otaku." A formal word which really means "you" or "your family," it's come to describe people who get carried away with their hobbies. The most famous otaku are the anime otaku, fans of Japanese anime who fill their rooms with anime goods in an attempt to get "the perfect collection." There are many other kinds of otaku, from military otaku to perfume otaku to train otaku, and so on. There seems to be something about the Japanese psyche that opens them up to going all-out in the pursuit of their hobbies. Unfortunately, while foreigners are often happy to use the word otaku to describe themselves, I really have to advise against using the word in front of Japanese people. In Japan, the concept of people getting carried away collecting doujinshi, Zippo lighters, and little stuffed dogs is cute, but the idea of being an otaku is really not a positive one to the Japanese mind -- just as you might not know what to think about a person who boasted about what a "Trekkie" he was. My advice is to hide your otakuism from Japanese people until they know you better, to avoid misunderstandings.

One thing I admire about the Japanese is their single-mindedness and ability to stay focused on a goal. When I married my wife and moved to Isesaki, I noticed a man in a nearby field, spending his Sunday afternoon with his RC helicopter (one of the expensive ones), flying it around the field and landing it. (He is an RC otaku.) Well, it's been eight years since then, and that man is still in that field every Sunday afternoon, playing with his RC helicopter (sometimes his friends bring various airplanes, too). Over the past eight years I've gone through many changes, but I have to respect that man for his steadfast adherence to his true love. Likewise, this steadiness can be seen in Japanese TV, with anime staples that have been on the air for decades and thousands and thousands of episodes -- mainly Doraemon (the "robot of cat type" who comes from the future to be with his friend, Nobita-kun) and Sazae-san (which follows the happenings of the Isono family every week, brought to you by the Toshiba Corporation). The longest running movie series in history is also from Japan -- "Otoko wa Tsuraiyo" ("It's Tough Being a Man") followed the traveling salesman Tora-san around Japan year after year, for a total of 48 installments (it's in the Guiness Book).

We've got good news for bishoujo gaming fans: we are going to be carrying the great new games from G-Collections. A new company translating some of the best games from Japan, the first four titles are going to be excellent, with superb graphics, compelling and emotional game stories and more. You can preorder "Kango Shicyauzo ~ I'm Gonna Nurse You", "Kana ~ Little Sister", "DOR" and "Chain ~ The Lost Footprints" now and get free shipping when the games come in!

For the new update, we've got lots of nice items for you, including:

• First, we're happy to see the reaction to our newest wacky Japanese T-shirts, "I want to be Japanese" and "Sexual Power" -- we've posted a white version of the Sexual Power shirt for you, too
  
• We have a very special item for Hello Kitty fans: the very cool Hello Kitty ' Daniel "Wedding Kitty" plush sets, with several versions available
  
• Also for Hello Kitty fans, several new items, including new mayonnaise cups (use them in bento boxes, or to store just about anything), as well as more of the beautiful kimono-clad Kitty toys we posted last time
  
• We have a great new My Neighbor Totoro music box in stock, featuring all three Totoros doing their "dance of the acorns"
  
• We have new items for your kitchen including new adult-sized chopsticks, a great item for fans of Ojamajo Doremi, and more
  
• Newly posted snack items include super spicy Japanese potato snacks, delicious Japanese Ramune candy, herbal throat candy, and more popular chocolate covered sun flower seeds
  
• Also, fresh stock of Kitty hot cake mix, and an item we recommend to everyone, delicious Japanese barley tea (mugi cha)
  
• For fans of Japanese Race Queens and swimsuit idols, see the new photobooks and other items we have for you, including a great photobook for Morning Musume fans
  
• Also in stock, a funky and wholly Japanese way to clean your ears
  
• We have fresh stock of the deluxe Hamster Club bento box and related items, always popular with J-List customers, and other bento items as well
  
• Finally, find soft and fun things to hold, a new Japan-only Hot Wheels Mach 5 version for Speed Racer fans,
  

For our adult customers, we've got many new 18+ products. Check out:

• First, see the above-mentioned new bishoujo games which you can order right now!
  
• For fans of beautiful Japanese AV idols, see the new Cospet, a fabulous all-cosplay magazine by the makers of Urecco that's got 20 of Japan's top gals for you
  
• Also for cosplay fans, a very special "sexy cosplay" photobook that features top gals like Megumi and Yuko Ogura, and comes with little paper dolls you can play with!
  
• For photobook fans, enjoy several new nude photobooks, including the lovely hardcover offering of Sayaka Yoshino and some new "petite eros" series books (very small all-color photobooks that are pocket-sized)
  
• Japan is always interested in "new half," e.g. chicks with dicks, and we've got a nice new photobook of authentic dick girls in stock
  
• We have an excellent lineup of great manga for you, including top-quality works by Angel Comics, Mujin Comics and more
  
• Also, yaoi fans, check out fresh stock of several items posted for you
  
• For fans of KITE, the hentai anime, we've restocked the popular art book for you, as well as the Bishoujo Anime Catalog RX
  
• There's a top-quality series of adult trading cards posted, too, based on the Rhythmic Gymnastics bishoujo game
  
• For DVD collectors, we have many new items as usual, starting with a "graduation AV debut" of a girl fresh out of high school (region free)
  
• Naive rich girls engage in "penis study" in a great Soft on Demand DVD, seeing and touching a man's penis for the first time -- their reactions are great to see (region free)
  
• For Ai Nagase fans, a super 2-DVD powerhouse release, that comes with an extra gift: a piece of fabric cut off the actual uniform she was wearing (region free)
  
• For fans of lesbian themes, two gorgeous ladies star as "The Sensual Sisters" in a new erotic release from HMP, and this is subtitled in English, Chinese and Korean! (region free)
  
• Enjoy the sweet costume play of Asuka Ozora, as she wears many great anime costumes for your fantasy-fulfillment (region 2)
  
• Finally, we've got a large update several DVD titles for you, including the excellent DVDs of Mai Hagiwara, Maiko Kazama, Kaori Kuraishi, and many more!
  

Remember that J-List is the only place you can get the excellent and authentic high school uniforms from Matsukameya of Nagoya. These are extremely well made uniforms that are famous all over Japan, and they're just beautiful. They're not cheap, unfortunately, but we know that you will be totally satisfied with the high quality of Matsukameya's products. And coming soon! By customer request, we'll soon be offering men's high school uniforms!

My kids and I are currently enjoying the excellent Walking with Dinosaurs and Walking with Prehistoric Beasts DVD series by the BBC, which are "documentaries" of animals that lived long ago. If you've got kids who dig dinosaurs, the DVDs are very educational, and really fun to watch as well. I recommend them 100%!

Greetings from J-List July 8, 2002

Hello and Happy Monday from all of us in Japan!

Summer has arrived, and that means that one of Japan's twice-yearly gift-giving seasons is here again. In July and again in December, people all over Japan buy gifts, called Chugen (in the summer) and Oseibo (in the winter), to give to certain people. Students and the parents of students give gifts to teachers to foster goodwill, for example, and companies give gifts to the companies they do business with as a way of saying thanks for the past year of business, and "korekara mo yoroshiku" (a phrase that is difficult to translate, it basically restates the hope that they continue to help you in the future). Selling the boxed gift sets is big money in the downtrodden Japanese economy, and Japanese companies compete to make the most attractive packages of cooking oil, detergent, canned drinks, vacuum-packed hams, to attract consumers' attention. Starbuck's Japan has started selling its much-renowned coffee beans in handy Japanese gift sets in its stores, and even HagenDaaz is getting into the act: you can send a box of delicious ice cream to anyone in Japan, and it will be delivered via Yamato Transport Company's "cool" delivery trucks, which keep the contents at a frosty temperature.

Another aspect of the Japanese "kokumin-sei" (their "national personality") is the Japanese attitude towards seasons. First, the Japanese are keenly aware that Japan has four very distinct seasons and (as humorist Dave Barry has pointed out) are likely to stop you on the street without warning to tell you about them. The Japanese are finely tuned to their seasons, and naturally know when to dress more or less warmly depending on the weather, unlike the poor gaijin living here, who are always dressing out of season and sticking out. The Japanese only do certain things in certain seasons, too. After August 3st, when summer vacation officially ends, virtually no one goes to the beach because "summer is over." I remember taking a trip by train to Enoshima, a beach near Yokohama, to take in the waves in early September. For some reason, what I was doing seemed to be crossing some invisible line to the Japanese, and several people tried to stop me from going. In a similar fashion, there is a very narrow window from September to November or so, when really cool anime, JPOP and idol calendars are available in Japan (and through J-List, too). Outside of this very small "calendar season," it's nearly impossible to find a calendar for sale in Japan for love or money.

Announcing the J-List Summer DVD Gift Sale! Until the end of the month, or while supplies last, we'll be giving away free DVD gifts for every $100 in adult DVDs you buy. It's our way of saying thanks for supporting J-List!

For the new update, we've got a bunch of interesting items for you, including:

• First, we have two great new wacky Japanese T-shirts for you, which say "Completely Confident in my Sexual Power" (a great item for guys looking for Japanese girls), and "I Want to be Japanese" (for anyone who secretly wish they were born in Japan) -- in stock now!
  
• We love the beautiful swimsuit models Japan has to offer, and have several new photobook (and a magazine + DVD item!) for fans of Sayaka Uchida, May Iikubo and more
  
• For anime and toy fans, we've got a major restocking of some of our most popular items, including the Totoro tin toy series, all the Love Hina SkyLuv dolls, and the oh-so-popular Japan-only Star Wars items (including the Light Saber)
  
• Also, a restocking of the popular Love Hina bilingual comics which allow you to read both the English and the Japanese
  
• We love the series of character goods and plush toys called "The Dog" and do our best to bring these great items to you all. There's a new line of very nice coffee mug, saucer and spoon sets for dog lovers, in stock
  
• For Macross fans, stock of the very cool transforming VF-1A Valkyrie from Bandai (Rick Hunter/Hikaru Ichijo Skull-1)
  
• For lovers of Gamera, we have a nifty "Gamera Special Graphix" book filled with pictures and behind-the-scenes shots of the Gamera films
  
• Also from Bandai, two really cool female robots from the Mazinger Z (Tranzor Z) universe, with extra-cool breast missiles that really shoot
  
• Also, we always carry lots of only-found-in-Japan Hello Kitty goods, and we've got a cool new series of kimono-clad Hello Kitty stuffed toys that will brighten any room!
  
• Also, other cool Hello Kitty items for you, including new fork and spoon sets, a cool "holder magnet," and fresh stock of the very popular Hello Kitty Collector's Mascot series, featuring little Kitty characters from all over Japan
  
• Also for fans of My Melody, the popular Sanrio character, we've got a suntanned "Hawaiian My-Melo" that's so cute
  
• We've got new snack items, including new miso soup, fried rice mix, tasty rice crackers, more onigiri, furikake, and more
  
• Also: fresh stock of delicious mugi tea, the #1 drink of the Japanese during the summer
  
• For collectors of music boxes or fine Snoopy items from around the world, we've got a very rare and special item, a beautiful Snoopy leather music box that is just too cute!
  
• Finally, look for cool items for your kitchen, a great cloth and wood shopping bag, traditional Japanese green tea cups, and more!
  

For our adult customers, we've got many new 18+ products. The new items include:

• For magazine fans, we have several new items for you, including new amateur items, kogal magazines, and new bargain magazines for you
  
• For photobook lovers, we have some great new erotic photobooks for you, including the dynamite new Rio Sannomiya release for you, and more
  
• Also, a unique item for fans of female nude tattoo photography, however stock is limited (if our stock sells out, we'll be able to order more)
  
• We've been receiving more requests for new manga from Japan, so we're posted a nice update today, with several new volumes from several different artists and manga studios
  
• For DVD fans, we've got many new items, including the new Deep Kiss and "Would you like a hand job?" DVDs that were accidentally not posted on Friday (sorry about that) (both are region free)
  
• If you love the sweet face of the new "good girl of Japanese AV," Hitomi Hayasaka, enjoy her new DVD release (region free)
  
• By Tohjiro and Dogma, there's a new White Sexual Desire, a great exploration of bukkake themes by one of Japan's best indies studios (region free)
  
• Nao Oikawa goes back to the love hotel where she first lost her virginity to relive those memories again in a great new production from Moodyz (region 2)
  
• And forfans of the bold and erotic Wanz Factory, there's a new "Super Angle of Manko" release which is shot almost entirely with a fish-eye lens positioned between Ruu Hoshino's legs (region 2)
  
• Finally, various new in stock DVD items posted by Tomo!
  

J-List customers tell us that the #1 way they hear about J-List is through word-of-mouth. We're very glad to hear this, and we're always happy to accept referrals! If you've got a friend who might be interested in our unique brand of Japanese pop culture, why not tell them about J-List, or ask them to sign up to our J-List updates? Thanks! Hello and Happy Monday from all of us in Japan!

Greetings from J-List July 5, 2002

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Greetings from J-List July 3, 2002

Hello again from all of us at J-List!

With all that's different between Japan and the West, you can bet that there are some toilet-related differences, too. When Japanese women use a public toilet, they're very nervous about others hearing the sound of their tinkling, so some Japanese public bathrooms often have machines to make white noise that drowns out the sound. My five-year-old daughter went into one of these restrooms and was too afraid of the sound to do what she had gone in there to do, so I had to help her. Similarly, Japanese women don't want others smelling the toilet after they've used it, so they often carry portable cans of air freshener to spray the area and make it fresh and clear. Conveniently, we happen to have gotten some of these in stock for you today.

When learning Japanese, it's always fun to learn the "gitaigo," a group of words similar to onomatopoeia, which describe a certain situation (and because they consist of repetitions of words, they are cute and fun to use). If you're really hungry, the Japanese would say that you're "peko peko," a word which describes the way you feel when your stomach is very empty. If you get soaking wet in the rain, you're "bisho bisho." If you get indigestion, your stomach is "muka muka." If your skin is especially smooth and clean, someone might say it's "sube sube" (a word which comes from suberu "to glide"). And if you're a little on the plump side, you might be described as "puyo puyo," a word which sounds cute to the Japanese, but if you're really fat, someone might say that you're "buyo buyo," a which wouldn't be very nice of them at all.

Some of the coolest products J-List sells are the Japanese DVD releases of Hayao Miyazaki's popular anime films, like My Neighbor Totoro and Princess Mononoke. The DVDs are region 2 (so you need special hardware to watch them, such as a region free DVD player, which we also happen to stock), but since they're subtitled and/or feature English soundtracks as well as many extra features, they're really the best way to enjoy the anime movies of Hayao Miyazaki. By customer request, we've posted screenshots of all menus from the Studio Ghibli DVDs we stock, with translations, (since the menus are in Japanese), as well as screenshots and information on the special features in the DVDs.

Also, we've made some changes to the organization of our DVD pages, basically simplifying the layout so you can find items more easily. The new categories are Adult DVD Main (for general adult DVD releases), DVD $30 and under (for lower-price releases), Soft on Demand (all SOD, Deep's and Natural High releases), Indies DVD (all region 2 DVDs), Lesbian DVD (all DVDs with lesbian themes), and Soft Porn (the popular Bauhaus titles). Indies DVDs that are region free (such as Dogma titles) can be found on DVD page 1. Also, in a J-List first, we now no longer have a VHS video section -- we've moved all our VHS titles to a single section of the DVD master category. With the quick ascent of DVD in Japan, helped along by the popularity of Playstation 2, almost no new titles are being release on video. Tomo has asked me to let you know, though, that we can often special order titles on VHS (and DVD) if there's something you're looking for.

Well, for the new update we've got a bunch of excellent items for you, including:

• First, a very cool series of soft vinyl anime figures based on Dirty Pair, with six different figures capturing three eras of the lovely anime characters -- and full sets of the figures are available
  
• We've been pleased by the popularity of the very advanced magnetic light-up Star Wars necklaces made by Tomy for sale in Japan (we actually sold out of all we posted), but we've got more for you: R2D2 and Boba Fett (the ones that sold out will come in tomorrow)
  
• Also, a Japan-only deluxe light saber that glows, and has extra-cool sound and gyro effects as well as many special effects (including "deflect the laser blasts" effects on demand), which I personally recommend as a Star Wars fan
  
• Also for only-from-Japan-toy fans, we've got a major restocking of Hot Wheels, as well as more popular Kubrick Evangelion figure sets
  
• A very nice set of collector's books of toys sold in Japan 100 years ago
  
• For fans of Japan's lovely swimsuit idols and Race Queens, we've got new items, including Rie Miyazawa's rare Pour Amitie photobook
  
• We have a nice item for people with sore feet, a good way to massage all the sensitive pressure points on your feet
  
• Cute items in stock include a Hamutaro child's bath sponge, a super Hello Kitty train pass case (which you can use for many purposes), and more
  
• We have some nice luncheon mats that match the i.Kotoba line of bento boxes, as well as fresh stock of authentic Japanese chopsticks for you
  
• We have fresh stock of Japanese snack items, including delicious miso soup, traditional "hakka" candy and delicious "Pucca" (chocolate and caramel filled little fish thingies)
  
• Also, more of that really Hello Kitty "heart candy" in the cool container and "soba meshi" (yakisoba and rice) snacks
  
• Also, even more only-available-in-Japan gum products, Bourbon's tasty peach gum and Natchan, a delicious orange sugarless gum
  
• We've got more unique Hello Kitty products for you, as well, including pocket tissue
  
• Finally, we're happy to announce that one of our most popular T-shirts ever is in stock, the red "I am Hentai" shirt -- back by customer request, and in all sizes (small through XXXL)!
  

For our adult customers, we've got many new 18+ products. They include:

• New magazines, including the very bold and very, ahem, detailed, Shuffle
  
• For fans of indies productions, we've got the new Video Indies magazine, along with other great amateur sex-in-love hotel magazines for you
  
• New photobooks, including a very special item for Nao Hirosue and busty idol Ayu Okakura
  
• We have some excellent new manga in stock for you today, including very erotic "tentacle sex" manga that is always popular, and many more
  
• Also, a major restocking of popular books, with fresh stock of the Pururun Seminar series, Chataro's Nami SOS and many others
  
• The Japanese Blue Eye vol. 5 is shipping, and in the U.S., we've got stock of issue 5 of the English Blue Eyes, ready for your order
  
• We've got some great new DVDs, too, including an excellent new lesbian production by the excellent new Movie Castle (region free)
  
• From Dogma, a great new item for bukkake fans, a new "White Sexual Desire" release featuring Sayaka Hijiri (region free)
  
• We love the pure face and sexy body of Shizuka Ichii, and now we have her DVDs in stock (region free)
  
• One of the brightest stars in the Japanese adult video world is Megumi Osawa, who entered the world of hardcore AV a few months ago -- see her newest release (region free)
  
• Finally, we just love the bold and erotic sassiness of Taiwanese Race Queen Yinling, who stars in a great new Yinling of Joytoy DVD release (region 2), highly recommended by Peter and Yasu.
  

J-List stocks delicious gum from Japan, like the popular Black Black caffeine gum, or the delicious Blue Berry delicious chewing gum. With every piece you get chewing satisfaction, but you also get funny English! In each pack of Lotte chewing gum, there are sticks that say "Yes, Chewing!" on them. Amaze your friends with funny stuff from J-List!