Greetings from Japan, the home of "soft cream" and "Pal Sweet Diet."
Racism and bias are always bad things, and with population of foreigners in Japan rising -- the official number of registered foreigners is about 1% of the country, which means that the actual number is higher, counting foreigners who are not registered -- that can put pressure on a country. Recently, in Gunma, a man who accidentally killed an acquaintance while wrestling with him tried to blame the crime on foreigners, saying that they were attacked by a gang of Iranians. And in Hamamatsu, near Mt. Fuji, a Brazilian woman was denied entry into a Japanese-owned jewelry store because of her nationality (if she'd been from America or Europe, she'd have been welcome, but she was from Brazil). She sued and won.
On the other hand, sometimes we foreigners deserve some of the bad reputation we get. For example, a certain Korean coin with a very low value passes as a 500 yen coin (worth about $5) if holes are drilled in it. In many old vending machines, you can put in one of these counterfeit coins and get out a 500 yen coin. Theft using altered Korean coins has become a social problem throughout all of Japan, and nearly everywhere you go vending machines have the 500 yen slot disabled. Some years ago, counterfeit telephone cards with metal strips that could foil public phones were all the rage among foreigners and younger Japanese, allowing people to cheat NTT and make free phone calls. To buy the cards, you only needed to go to Ueno Park and find any Iranian -- I must admit to having bought a few myself. Most foreigners here are law-abiding, tax-paying members of Japanese society, but the ones that aren't ruin it for the group at large.
We've got a very special update for you tonight. First of all, we're extremely happy announce that JAST USA is bringing you the excellent Viper M1 hentai simulation game, by Hobibox Europe and Sogna. A positively wonderful game, with full motion animation, beautiful characters and three great hentai stories, the Viper M1 is one of the most requested games ever -- and now it's available in English and Italian!
Viper M1 is one of the best hentai games ever to be bought out in English. To "sweeten the pot" for hentai game fans, we've included the new title in our J-List "Threepack" special -- so you can get any three English games, including Viper M1, shipped to you for just $105 (or $120 outside of US/Canada). See this title on Hentai Games Page 1.
Oh, and one more item -- by customer request, the widescreen Laserdisc of Star Wars Episode 1, the only digital version of the excellent movie that will be released -- but only in international markets, not in the U.S.! Since we received several requests to carry this item, we've made the Japanese version of Episode 1 available to J-List customers for pre-order. It comes out April 7, but order your copy soon to make sure it's available.
Saturday, February 19, 2000
Thursday, February 17, 2000
Greetings from J-List February 17, 2000
Hello again from Japan, where seemingly all girls rank Audry Hepburn as their favorite actress, and The Bodyguard as their favorite movie.
Japanese pop music is very popular throughout Asia. Recently, the Kinki Kids (a two-man singing team, named after the Kinki region of Japan, not for any sexual deviance they might have) were mobbed by fans in Hong Kong. Singer/idol Noriko Sakai's popular in Asia got so great that she released some singles in Chinese, which was completely unheard of at the time. I saw a commercial for a L'Arc~en~Ciel album recently that consisted of a Thai pop news broadcast about the group, in Thai with Japanese subtitles.
There's a new law in Japan, or at least in Gunma, where we're located -- the Millennium Recycling Law. In an effort to enforce recycling, companies will be charged according to the amount of garbage they generate, and penalized for not using recycled materials. All of the packing materials J-List uses are made from recycled fiber, as we ship nearly everything from the U.S.
Tonight's update features some nice items, including:
The manga & dojinshi sale continues apace, as a lot of items are picked up by people wanting to take advantage of the 10-20% off all items. We've got a lot of stock, but many items won't be available after we sell our existing stock, so please stop by and check out the many great items we have.
The CM-Watch site has been updated with Esumi Makiko's smart shampoo commercial, the Pokka Got it!" canned coffee commercial, Amuro Namie's husband drinking corn soup, and more, so check it out at http://www.cm-watch.com .
Japanese pop music is very popular throughout Asia. Recently, the Kinki Kids (a two-man singing team, named after the Kinki region of Japan, not for any sexual deviance they might have) were mobbed by fans in Hong Kong. Singer/idol Noriko Sakai's popular in Asia got so great that she released some singles in Chinese, which was completely unheard of at the time. I saw a commercial for a L'Arc~en~Ciel album recently that consisted of a Thai pop news broadcast about the group, in Thai with Japanese subtitles.
There's a new law in Japan, or at least in Gunma, where we're located -- the Millennium Recycling Law. In an effort to enforce recycling, companies will be charged according to the amount of garbage they generate, and penalized for not using recycled materials. All of the packing materials J-List uses are made from recycled fiber, as we ship nearly everything from the U.S.
Tonight's update features some nice items, including:
- A wonderful new video by the blazing hot Miura Aika, a lovely new item that features not just the erotic sights of the lovely Aika-chan, but the sounds as well (headphones are recommended, so Aika can whisper sweetly in your ear)
- Many great regular magazines, including excellent new issues of Video Boy and Best Video, and the new issue of Okay!!
- A new magazine item we hope to see more of at J-List, Birei, featuring the lovely Sena Wakana (all new magazines are posted on magazine page 1)
- Several lovely new photobooks, including a great hardcover photobook by the lovely Hitomi Ryo, a "virtual weekend" with your virtual girlfriend, Mizuno Ai, and "Kiss me!" (see photobooks page 1)
- An update to our popular gouka-bon photobook page, some interesting but potentially disturbing new items
- For dojinshi fans, more copies of both Dopyu (large-breast fetish dojinshi) and Takashi Fujiyama's lovely Vier
- On the hentai manga page, more copies of the popular "How to draw manga girls" illustration book
- For fans of J-List's new Japanese gum, we've added Lotte's "No Time, a refreshing square gum that has little particles that brush your teeth for you while you chew it (on the Japanese snacks page).
The manga & dojinshi sale continues apace, as a lot of items are picked up by people wanting to take advantage of the 10-20% off all items. We've got a lot of stock, but many items won't be available after we sell our existing stock, so please stop by and check out the many great items we have.
The CM-Watch site has been updated with Esumi Makiko's smart shampoo commercial, the Pokka Got it!" canned coffee commercial, Amuro Namie's husband drinking corn soup, and more, so check it out at http://www.cm-watch.com .
Monday, February 14, 2000
Greetings from J-List February 14, 2000
Hello from Japan, where love and chocolate is in the air. Today is Valentine's Day, and in Japan, that means men getting chocolate from women. I got a nice box of chocolate pretzles from my wife, but my son Kazuki made out much better, getting chocolate from half a dozen girls in his class, as well as his teachers. Men who get chocolate on Valentine's Day are obliged to give a gift (usually white chocolate) on White Day, which is on March 14.
In Japan, the #1 and #2 music producers who are vying for the public's music dollars are Tetsuya Komuro (creator of TRF, Globe, Suzuki Ami, and so on) and Tsunku, creator of Morning Musume. Now Tsunku has taken Morning Musume and two other bands he produces (a four-girl group Taiyo and Cisco Moon and Coconuts Musume, a group of gaijin women from Hawaii) and mixed them up into three new units (in Japanese a "unit" is a musical group): Blue Seven, Yellow Five, and Red Four. All three new units will release singles on the same day in March. Should be good to see.
We've got a lot of great new items for you this evening. The new items include:
And speaking of Manga... Announcing the February Manga & Dojinshi Sale! We've got too many manga & dojinshi in stock, and we'd like your help in getting it out the door so we can make room for new items. To help you out, we'll offer a 10% on all manga & dojinshi if you order three or more items. Order six or more items, and get a 20% discount. Since we've got lots of stock of the popular Viper manga, as well as the Lunatic Party and Angelic Impact, it's a great chance to get a lot of manga or dojinshi and save $$$. This offer will run through the end of February.
Also, a simplification on our snacks and cards policy. In the past, we've sold both single-unit and full-box version of snacks and cards/stickers but keeping track of the number of each we had in stock was a challenge. Effective immediately, if you order 10 or more single units of any card, snack or gum item, we'll give you a flat 15% discount (whether it's a full case or not).
That's today's update -- see you on the web!
In Japan, the #1 and #2 music producers who are vying for the public's music dollars are Tetsuya Komuro (creator of TRF, Globe, Suzuki Ami, and so on) and Tsunku, creator of Morning Musume. Now Tsunku has taken Morning Musume and two other bands he produces (a four-girl group Taiyo and Cisco Moon and Coconuts Musume, a group of gaijin women from Hawaii) and mixed them up into three new units (in Japanese a "unit" is a musical group): Blue Seven, Yellow Five, and Red Four. All three new units will release singles on the same day in March. Should be good to see.
We've got a lot of great new items for you this evening. The new items include:
- We got gum! By customer request, we've added unique and hard-to-find Japanese gum to the Japanese Snacks page -- including the caffeine-loaded Black Black, Lotte's Green Gum (the gum that tastes like an evergreen), Sweetie Grapefruit gum, and more
- Excellent new idol videos, including JPOP music videos by Morning Musume, Pucchimoni and the ultra-popular Utada Hikaru, as well as Fujiwara Norika's idol video
- By popular demand, we've gotten Digimon cards (the Japanese starter set) as well as excellent Digimon stickers (11 to a pack, just $2)
- For fans of Pokemon cards, we've got more stock of the English cards, and are closing out our stock -- so check out the prices
- On the anime & toys page, we've got a Color Change Aki-chan, a doll with hair that changes color when you touch it, and a new Hello Kitty clock item
- New in-stock adult videos, courtesy of Kaori (who is in charge of the videos)
- For fans of J-List's high-end S&M photobook page, a great new item, Stupid Angel, featuring an excellent selection of great fetish photos
- All-new adult wide manga, both normal Hentai Manga as well as a nice Yaoi wide manga.
And speaking of Manga... Announcing the February Manga & Dojinshi Sale! We've got too many manga & dojinshi in stock, and we'd like your help in getting it out the door so we can make room for new items. To help you out, we'll offer a 10% on all manga & dojinshi if you order three or more items. Order six or more items, and get a 20% discount. Since we've got lots of stock of the popular Viper manga, as well as the Lunatic Party and Angelic Impact, it's a great chance to get a lot of manga or dojinshi and save $$$. This offer will run through the end of February.
Also, a simplification on our snacks and cards policy. In the past, we've sold both single-unit and full-box version of snacks and cards/stickers but keeping track of the number of each we had in stock was a challenge. Effective immediately, if you order 10 or more single units of any card, snack or gum item, we'll give you a flat 15% discount (whether it's a full case or not).
That's today's update -- see you on the web!
Saturday, February 12, 2000
Greetings from J-List February 12, 2000
Greetings from Japan, the home of Aloe yogart (one of my favorites).
Well, a chapter has ended in the childhoods of Japanese little boys everywhere: after a run of about 10 months, Go Go Five, the current "five team" show, has ended. The evil demonic Saimer made one final attempt to destroy Tokyo, but the Go Go Five members teamed up with their transforming train/robot mechs Liner Boy, Victory Mars and Max Victory Robo, to save the day. The show is replaced by the new five-team show, Time Ranger.
The genre of the five-team show may have seemed new to American kids when Power Rangers came out, but it's been a staple of Japanese kids since time out of mind. About every year the powers that be (Bandai) roll out a new show to replace the old, to keep toy sales strong. Before Go Go Five were Gingaman and Mega Ranger, and years ago, Go Ranger, Change Man, Car Ranger, and so on. It'd be interesting to see Saban adapt some other Japanese five-team themes in the future.
Starting alongside Time Ranger is a new installment of the venerable Kamen Rider (Masked Rider) series, Kamen Rider Couger. This series is made to appeal to adults as well as well as kids, it's rife with high production values and lots of cool effects. On the other hand, it's by far the most violent show in its class ever to be shown on Japanse TV, and this is causing concerned parents to question why such a show would be put on during the "kids's slot, Sunday morning at 8:00 am.
We've got some really nice new items for you this weekend. First, by customer request, we've been able to carry the very exciting and popular Deep Kiss" video series by Soft On Demand. These videos explore lesbian themes by asking female friends to kiss for the camera, then give their reactions. A related item, Deep Kiss Special, has 19 of Japan's most famous AV idols (including Miura Aika) perform their best "deep kiss" against a glass sheet, with a camera on the other side. The effect is most interesting. See these on in-stock video page 1.
Also, after a long drought, we've been able to get some great new idol items for the Idol & Soft Porn page. After the bankruptcy of one of our distributors were weren't able to get any good idol videos, etc. but we've found a new company that has a lot of great items. For starters, we've got six lovely idol videos of the popular idol/actress Fukada Kyoko and busty idol Yuka on *DVD*, for your viewing pleasure. Look for more quality items on the idol page soon.
Other updated items include:
Remember that J-List offers 6- and 12-month subscriptions to the most popular Japanese magazines: Urecco, Bejean, Dela Beppin, Gokuh, Video Boy, Best Video, and Gal's Dee. It's a great way to get each issue as soon as it becomes available, and get free issues, too! See the subscriptions page for more information.
Well, a chapter has ended in the childhoods of Japanese little boys everywhere: after a run of about 10 months, Go Go Five, the current "five team" show, has ended. The evil demonic Saimer made one final attempt to destroy Tokyo, but the Go Go Five members teamed up with their transforming train/robot mechs Liner Boy, Victory Mars and Max Victory Robo, to save the day. The show is replaced by the new five-team show, Time Ranger.
The genre of the five-team show may have seemed new to American kids when Power Rangers came out, but it's been a staple of Japanese kids since time out of mind. About every year the powers that be (Bandai) roll out a new show to replace the old, to keep toy sales strong. Before Go Go Five were Gingaman and Mega Ranger, and years ago, Go Ranger, Change Man, Car Ranger, and so on. It'd be interesting to see Saban adapt some other Japanese five-team themes in the future.
Starting alongside Time Ranger is a new installment of the venerable Kamen Rider (Masked Rider) series, Kamen Rider Couger. This series is made to appeal to adults as well as well as kids, it's rife with high production values and lots of cool effects. On the other hand, it's by far the most violent show in its class ever to be shown on Japanse TV, and this is causing concerned parents to question why such a show would be put on during the "kids's slot, Sunday morning at 8:00 am.
We've got some really nice new items for you this weekend. First, by customer request, we've been able to carry the very exciting and popular Deep Kiss" video series by Soft On Demand. These videos explore lesbian themes by asking female friends to kiss for the camera, then give their reactions. A related item, Deep Kiss Special, has 19 of Japan's most famous AV idols (including Miura Aika) perform their best "deep kiss" against a glass sheet, with a camera on the other side. The effect is most interesting. See these on in-stock video page 1.
Also, after a long drought, we've been able to get some great new idol items for the Idol & Soft Porn page. After the bankruptcy of one of our distributors were weren't able to get any good idol videos, etc. but we've found a new company that has a lot of great items. For starters, we've got six lovely idol videos of the popular idol/actress Fukada Kyoko and busty idol Yuka on *DVD*, for your viewing pleasure. Look for more quality items on the idol page soon.
Other updated items include:
- New and back-in-stock photobooks, including Photoshot, Best Shot, Eichi Bauko's "H-B, and more
- An update of JPOP singles, including some really nice Amuro Namie, Aikawa Nanase, Puffy, and more
- For anime toys fans, a kise-kae" (changeable clothes) version of Card Captor Sakura, with all accessories, on the anime page
- More copies of Bikyaku Queen, a lovely pantyhose-fetish photobook
Remember that J-List offers 6- and 12-month subscriptions to the most popular Japanese magazines: Urecco, Bejean, Dela Beppin, Gokuh, Video Boy, Best Video, and Gal's Dee. It's a great way to get each issue as soon as it becomes available, and get free issues, too! See the subscriptions page for more information.
Friday, February 11, 2000
Greetings from J-List February 11, 2000
Hello from Japan and J-List. It's a relatively warm day today, as we get the update out a few hours earlier than usual.
J-List had technical difficulties during parts of Tuesday and Wednesday, which caused temporary problem viewing the J-List site. Also, some orders that were processed by the shopping cart weren't actually processed. If anyone made an order or left email via the secure email link and didn't get a reply from us, please contact us immediately.
Today is a holiday in Japan, National Foundation day, the date of the enthroning of Japan's first emperor according to legend and adopted by the creators of Japan's first constitution in 1880's. The holiday was made illegal by MacArthur after World War II as part of the outlawed "Emperor System, but was reinstated some years ago.
One thing I've noticed in Japan -- few Japanese think deeply about what a given holiday is all about. Contrary to the image Americans had of Japan in the 80's, all Japanese will gladly take a holiday, and generally don't think deeply about the point of the day. November 23rd is Labor Thanksgiving Day, but you never seen any laborors being thanked -- actually, they all seem to go out of their way to work on this day so they can earn extra money. In America, there are holidays to remember veterans who have both fought and died in past wars, but in Japan, there are few similar customs.
We've got some nice items for you today. Partially in commemoration of the holiday (?), we've got four new wacky Japanese T-shirts, including our most bizarre yet, a shirt with the 9th Amendment to the Japanese Constitution, which proclaims that Japan as a nation denounces war as a tool of state policy and promises to work for peace with all the nations of the world. There are three more wacky shirts posted as well -- Looking for a Japanese Girlfriend" "I want to be Japanese" and "Dare to be Stupid." See them on the Japanese T-shirt page.
Other new items include:
That's all, see you on the site!
J-List had technical difficulties during parts of Tuesday and Wednesday, which caused temporary problem viewing the J-List site. Also, some orders that were processed by the shopping cart weren't actually processed. If anyone made an order or left email via the secure email link and didn't get a reply from us, please contact us immediately.
Today is a holiday in Japan, National Foundation day, the date of the enthroning of Japan's first emperor according to legend and adopted by the creators of Japan's first constitution in 1880's. The holiday was made illegal by MacArthur after World War II as part of the outlawed "Emperor System, but was reinstated some years ago.
One thing I've noticed in Japan -- few Japanese think deeply about what a given holiday is all about. Contrary to the image Americans had of Japan in the 80's, all Japanese will gladly take a holiday, and generally don't think deeply about the point of the day. November 23rd is Labor Thanksgiving Day, but you never seen any laborors being thanked -- actually, they all seem to go out of their way to work on this day so they can earn extra money. In America, there are holidays to remember veterans who have both fought and died in past wars, but in Japan, there are few similar customs.
We've got some nice items for you today. Partially in commemoration of the holiday (?), we've got four new wacky Japanese T-shirts, including our most bizarre yet, a shirt with the 9th Amendment to the Japanese Constitution, which proclaims that Japan as a nation denounces war as a tool of state policy and promises to work for peace with all the nations of the world. There are three more wacky shirts posted as well -- Looking for a Japanese Girlfriend" "I want to be Japanese" and "Dare to be Stupid." See them on the Japanese T-shirt page.
Other new items include:
- A super new item, the Cho Very Good!! which features eleven of the most popular Japanese AV gals in lovely sailor costplay
- New magazines, including the new Nippon Mini-Suka Club
- A bunch of new erotic dojiinshi, including a great new offering from the fine people at Okachimentaiko, as well as more stock of all Okachimentaiko dojinshi
- For Hello Kitty fans, two wonderful large-size wall clocks (on the Anime & Toys page)
- Two great new "reserve subscription" magazines for J-List fans: Comic Coro Coro, an 800+ managa magazine with highly collectible Pokemon and other items inside each month, and the fashion magazine JJ, filled with great information on what's trendy among Japan's lovely young ladies
- G-Net, a super new dual-Video CD & magazine sampler item
- For DVD-philes, two great new DVDs contaiing the entire erotic works of the lovely Asakura Mai
- More!
That's all, see you on the site!
Thursday, February 10, 2000
Greetings from J-List February 10, 2000
Hello from Japan and J-List. It's a relatively warm day today, as we get the update out a few hours earlier than usual.
J-List had technical difficulties during parts of Tuesday and Wednesday, which caused temporary problem viewing the J-List site. Also, some orders that were processed by the shopping cart weren't actually processed. If anyone made an order or left email via the secure email link and didn't get a reply from us, please contact us immediately.
Today is a holiday in Japan, National Foundation day, the date of the enthroning of Japan's first emperor according to legend and adopted by the creators of Japan's first constitution in 1880's. The holiday was made illegal by MacArthur after World War II as part of the outlawed "Emperor System, but was reinstated some years ago.
One thing I've noticed in Japan -- few Japanese think deeply about what a given holiday is all about. Contrary to the image Americans had of Japan in the 80's, all Japanese will gladly take a holiday, and generally don't think deeply about the point of the day. November 23rd is Labor Thanksgiving Day, but you never seen any laborors being thanked -- actually, they all seem to go out of their way to work on this day so they can earn extra money. In America, there are holidays to remember veterans who have both fought and died in past wars, but in Japan, there are few similar customs.
We've got some nice items for you today. Partially in commemoration of the holiday (?), we've got four new wacky Japanese T-shirts, including our most bizarre yet, a shirt with the 9th Amendment to the Japanese Constitution, which proclaims that Japan as a nation denounces war as a tool of state policy and promises to work for peace with all the nations of the world. There are three more wacky shirts posted as well -- Looking for a Japanese Girlfriend" "I want to be Japanese" and "Dare to be Stupid." See them on the Japanese T-shirt page.
Other new items include:
J-List had technical difficulties during parts of Tuesday and Wednesday, which caused temporary problem viewing the J-List site. Also, some orders that were processed by the shopping cart weren't actually processed. If anyone made an order or left email via the secure email link and didn't get a reply from us, please contact us immediately.
Today is a holiday in Japan, National Foundation day, the date of the enthroning of Japan's first emperor according to legend and adopted by the creators of Japan's first constitution in 1880's. The holiday was made illegal by MacArthur after World War II as part of the outlawed "Emperor System, but was reinstated some years ago.
One thing I've noticed in Japan -- few Japanese think deeply about what a given holiday is all about. Contrary to the image Americans had of Japan in the 80's, all Japanese will gladly take a holiday, and generally don't think deeply about the point of the day. November 23rd is Labor Thanksgiving Day, but you never seen any laborors being thanked -- actually, they all seem to go out of their way to work on this day so they can earn extra money. In America, there are holidays to remember veterans who have both fought and died in past wars, but in Japan, there are few similar customs.
We've got some nice items for you today. Partially in commemoration of the holiday (?), we've got four new wacky Japanese T-shirts, including our most bizarre yet, a shirt with the 9th Amendment to the Japanese Constitution, which proclaims that Japan as a nation denounces war as a tool of state policy and promises to work for peace with all the nations of the world. There are three more wacky shirts posted as well -- Looking for a Japanese Girlfriend" "I want to be Japanese" and "Dare to be Stupid." See them on the Japanese T-shirt page.
Other new items include:
- A super new item, the Cho Very Good!! which features eleven of the most popular Japanese AV gals in lovely sailor costplay
- New magazines, including the new Nippon Mini-Suka Club
- A bunch of new erotic dojiinshi, including a great new offering from the fine people at Okachimentaiko, as well as more stock of all Okachimentaiko dojinshi
- Two great new "reserve subscription" magazines for J-List fans: Comic Coro Coro, an 800+ managa magazine with highly collectible Pokemon and other items inside each month, and the fashion magazine JJ, filled with great information on what's trendy among Japan's lovely young ladies
- G-Net, a super new dual-Video CD & magazine sampler item
- For DVD-philes, two great new DVDs contaiing the entire erotic works of the lovely Asakura Mai
- More!
Monday, February 07, 2000
Greetings from J-List February 7, 2000
Hello again from Japan, the country that loves to wrap cookies individually.
The case of the poor seven-year-old boy who was murdered in Kyoto has been solved. The murderer, a troubled 21-year-old youth, turned himself in to investigators, only to run away during questioning. He climbed to the top floor of a nearby apartment complex and jumped to his death. The story has been all over the morning wide shows (they seem to love to show camera views peering down from the balcony where the man jumped, to show what his last view would have been). Unfortunately the man left no diary or notes to give a clear indication as to why he did what he did. It's a sad ending to a sad story.
The Japanese government continues its policy of lending money to banks at 0%, in order to keep interest rates ultra-low and promote growth in the economy. It's therefore cheap to borrow money -- if you can find a bank willing to lend it to you -- but the return on savings is the lowest in the world. A standard bank saving accounts account gets you .02% annually -- so if you keep $1000 in a bank for a year you'll get just $2 for your trouble. American-style money market funds have become popular, but they still only offer around 2-2.5% to investors. Meanwhile, E*Trade is pushing online investing strongly here, as Japan continues to change as a result of outside pressure.
We've got some nice items for you today. Updated items on J-List include
We've gone through and reduced prices on nearly all of our in-stock manga and dojiinshi, to help make room for great new items. There are some cool items there, in stock and ready to go out to you, so please take a look at the reduced items. Thanks!
The case of the poor seven-year-old boy who was murdered in Kyoto has been solved. The murderer, a troubled 21-year-old youth, turned himself in to investigators, only to run away during questioning. He climbed to the top floor of a nearby apartment complex and jumped to his death. The story has been all over the morning wide shows (they seem to love to show camera views peering down from the balcony where the man jumped, to show what his last view would have been). Unfortunately the man left no diary or notes to give a clear indication as to why he did what he did. It's a sad ending to a sad story.
The Japanese government continues its policy of lending money to banks at 0%, in order to keep interest rates ultra-low and promote growth in the economy. It's therefore cheap to borrow money -- if you can find a bank willing to lend it to you -- but the return on savings is the lowest in the world. A standard bank saving accounts account gets you .02% annually -- so if you keep $1000 in a bank for a year you'll get just $2 for your trouble. American-style money market funds have become popular, but they still only offer around 2-2.5% to investors. Meanwhile, E*Trade is pushing online investing strongly here, as Japan continues to change as a result of outside pressure.
We've got some nice items for you today. Updated items on J-List include
- The new issue of Urecco, which features some of the hottest and most beautiful AV idols and models in Japan today
- A slew of new adult manga to the hentai manga page, including some very nice S&M and bondage manga (and a new offering by the popular Araki Kyoya)
- A selection of new special-order videos, including several nice new "costplay" (costume fetish) and bondage videos
- New JPOP CD singles, for fans of our low-priced JPOP CDs
- More!
We've gone through and reduced prices on nearly all of our in-stock manga and dojiinshi, to help make room for great new items. There are some cool items there, in stock and ready to go out to you, so please take a look at the reduced items. Thanks!
Friday, February 04, 2000
Greetings from J-List February 4, 2000
Hello again from Japan, the Origin of the Sun (as seen from China, who thought up the name).
The convenience the Internet brings is no secret to anyone reading this list, but for people like me, ex-pats living abroad, being able to buy any books, music, and computer equipment from my computer, with only a slightly longer delay than if I lived in the U.S., is just wonderful. While the Blair Witch Project is in the theaters here, I've got it on DVD from the States.
I think back to what Japan was like when I arrived, in 1992 -- someone would find a small store that stocked import food, maybe Pringles or M&M's, and all the foreigners would rush over and buy everything they could -- a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos was worth more than its weight in gold to foreigners in Japan back then. Now that Japan's markets have opened, partially as a result of pressure from the U.S. government, there are far more foods and products from the U.S. here. It's good to see the change.
We've got a fine update for you tonight, just in time for the weekend. First and foremost, we've started carrying Licca-chan (Rika-chan) fashion dolls on J-List, starting with the very lovely Kimono series. These are very nice fashion dolls by Takara, designed to be more petite than American dolls, with Japanese girls in mind. After Christmas, when we gave my daughter a Licca-chan doll and some accessories, my wife and I have wanted to carry them on J-List and evangelize Licca-chan to J-List customers ever since. See them on the Anime & Toys page.
Other new items include:
We've also got stock of the popular Yellows CD ROM series, through which Japanese photographer Akira Gomi documents the female nude body. We've got new stock of Yellows 2.0, Yellows 20 Years Old, and for people who want to see American women through the eyes of the Japanese, Americans 1.0 (see all on the CD ROMs page).
The convenience the Internet brings is no secret to anyone reading this list, but for people like me, ex-pats living abroad, being able to buy any books, music, and computer equipment from my computer, with only a slightly longer delay than if I lived in the U.S., is just wonderful. While the Blair Witch Project is in the theaters here, I've got it on DVD from the States.
I think back to what Japan was like when I arrived, in 1992 -- someone would find a small store that stocked import food, maybe Pringles or M&M's, and all the foreigners would rush over and buy everything they could -- a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos was worth more than its weight in gold to foreigners in Japan back then. Now that Japan's markets have opened, partially as a result of pressure from the U.S. government, there are far more foods and products from the U.S. here. It's good to see the change.
We've got a fine update for you tonight, just in time for the weekend. First and foremost, we've started carrying Licca-chan (Rika-chan) fashion dolls on J-List, starting with the very lovely Kimono series. These are very nice fashion dolls by Takara, designed to be more petite than American dolls, with Japanese girls in mind. After Christmas, when we gave my daughter a Licca-chan doll and some accessories, my wife and I have wanted to carry them on J-List and evangelize Licca-chan to J-List customers ever since. See them on the Anime & Toys page.
Other new items include:
- New magazines, including the new Gal's Dee, Milky Dolls, and a new monthly, Ai shite ageru (I'll Love You)
- New official Pokemon cards, in English, as well as our full-deck sets of Japanese cards, all in stock
- New items on the deluxe S&M & fetish book page, including a lovely bondage book featuring some of J-List's most popular idols
- A healthy update of our popular adult manga, on the hentai manga page, with a half-dozen new additions
- The new DVD & Video CD Soft Catalog, a great magazine with two full VCDs and nearly 2 hours of sampler footage
- For fans of our "reserve subscriptions, two additions: Colorful Manpukusei (the first monthly hentai manga magazine with all-CG content) and Shojo Kakimei (erotic manga for women) -- see them on Reserve Magazines page 2.
We've also got stock of the popular Yellows CD ROM series, through which Japanese photographer Akira Gomi documents the female nude body. We've got new stock of Yellows 2.0, Yellows 20 Years Old, and for people who want to see American women through the eyes of the Japanese, Americans 1.0 (see all on the CD ROMs page).
Thursday, February 03, 2000
Greetings from J-List February 3, 2000
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Monday, January 31, 2000
Greetings from J-List January 31, 2000
Hello to all from Japan on this cool, quiet evening.
Tragedy has struck J-List again, with the sudden death of Kiki, our American Shorthair cat. My mother in law found him dead in the lot behind our house (which is a liquor shop). Our favorite of our three cats, we liked him for his intelligence and the way he would always crawl into our laps. He is survived by Rin Rin and Ran Ran.
We've always kept cats, mainly because my Japanese family believes that if you have cats around, they die in place of the humans if there's some bad luck in store for the family. I'm not sure if it's a Buddhist idea, or just a belief that my family got on their own, but all I know is that right after each of our children were born, one of our cats died (which my wife calls "migawari, a passing of one life in the household as a new one comes in).
It's one of many beliefs (one might say superstition" but I won't, since my wife is on this mailing list) that I'm exposed to, living in a Japanese family, and I always do my best to reserve judgement as best I can. One such belief that my wife and mother follow strongly
We've got some nice additions to the J-List site tonight. Newly added items include:
Remember that in addition to our "reserve subscriptions" that allow you to reserve issues of current Japanese magazines, J-List has great 6- and 12-month subscriptions to most of our popular magazines, including Urecco, Bejean, Dela Beppin, Gal's Dee, Video Boy and Best Video. And with your subscription, you get 1 or 2 issues, free! See the Magazine Subscriptions page for more information.
All the J-List product pages were broken during Saturday, U.S. time, due to a glitch in our scripts in Japan. Everything was up and running about twelve hours after they went down, and we apologize to anyone who was inconvenienced. Thanks to everyone who emailed us about the problems with the page. (That's what I get for staying up til 2 am making improvements to the site...)
Tragedy has struck J-List again, with the sudden death of Kiki, our American Shorthair cat. My mother in law found him dead in the lot behind our house (which is a liquor shop). Our favorite of our three cats, we liked him for his intelligence and the way he would always crawl into our laps. He is survived by Rin Rin and Ran Ran.
We've always kept cats, mainly because my Japanese family believes that if you have cats around, they die in place of the humans if there's some bad luck in store for the family. I'm not sure if it's a Buddhist idea, or just a belief that my family got on their own, but all I know is that right after each of our children were born, one of our cats died (which my wife calls "migawari, a passing of one life in the household as a new one comes in).
It's one of many beliefs (one might say superstition" but I won't, since my wife is on this mailing list) that I'm exposed to, living in a Japanese family, and I always do my best to reserve judgement as best I can. One such belief that my wife and mother follow strongly
We've got some nice additions to the J-List site tonight. Newly added items include:
- Two absolutely lovely soft vinyl recreations from Princess Mononoke, whose creation was overseen by Miyazaki himself, on the Anime Page
- Also on the Anime Page, a nice selection of several new only-in-Japan Hello Kitty items, for the little Hello Kitty fan in you
- New magazines, including new issues of DD Toppers and D Cup Japan (see magazine page 1), in addition to some cool older one-shot magazines (including some cool issues from 1988!)
- Hentai illustation and "digital comic" magazine/CD ROM combination items, for Mac and Windows, on the CD ROM page
- A host of new and back-in stock photobooks, including more copies of Tickle, by Horiuchi Nana, and Last Song, by Miura Aika
- For fans of really cool old things from Japan, a complete set of 13 historical magazines from the 1950's looking back on World War II from the Japanese perspective (on the photobooks page)
Remember that in addition to our "reserve subscriptions" that allow you to reserve issues of current Japanese magazines, J-List has great 6- and 12-month subscriptions to most of our popular magazines, including Urecco, Bejean, Dela Beppin, Gal's Dee, Video Boy and Best Video. And with your subscription, you get 1 or 2 issues, free! See the Magazine Subscriptions page for more information.
All the J-List product pages were broken during Saturday, U.S. time, due to a glitch in our scripts in Japan. Everything was up and running about twelve hours after they went down, and we apologize to anyone who was inconvenienced. Thanks to everyone who emailed us about the problems with the page. (That's what I get for staying up til 2 am making improvements to the site...)
Sunday, January 30, 2000
Greetings from J-List October 30, 2000
Happy Monday, everyone, from your friends at J-List.
For a country that loves English enough to come up with adjectives like "towny, cars with names like Bongo Friendy" and "Super Saloon, and song titles like Body feels EXIT, you'd think there'd be a lot of English in use here. Well, there isn't any more English in daily use in Japan than there is French in the U.S., despite general agreement that French is tres cool." Although every beer and coffee can has an English description of the quality of the item -- "Sapporo beer is made from the finest hops for a delicious taste and refinement" -- you'd be surprised how easy it is to find yourself standing on a train platform with not even a sign in English telling you where the train is headed. Since I read Japanese, I tend not to notice it that much, but whenever I've got friends from the U.S. here, it hits me -- while the Japanese try their best to make foreigners feel welcome here, they don't do that good a job when it comes to marking things in English. It's also quite rare to find someone who can help you in English in a shop, if you need it: despite a massive six years of study in Junior High and High School, and four more if the person went to college
Just a last call for calendar pre-orders -- we'll have to stop taking orders for calendars as of the end of October 31st, much as we regret it. J-List has over 150 great 2001 calendars for you to choose from, with great JPOP calendars (former Speed girls, L'Arc~en~Ciel), super anime calendars (Ah My Goddess, Gundam Wing, Sailor Moon), sexy idol calendars (Race Queen Suzuki Fumika, Asakura Megumi), lovely nude calendars (Kanabun)
For this evening, we've got some cool new items for you, including:
Okay, that's all for now!
For a country that loves English enough to come up with adjectives like "towny, cars with names like Bongo Friendy" and "Super Saloon, and song titles like Body feels EXIT, you'd think there'd be a lot of English in use here. Well, there isn't any more English in daily use in Japan than there is French in the U.S., despite general agreement that French is tres cool." Although every beer and coffee can has an English description of the quality of the item -- "Sapporo beer is made from the finest hops for a delicious taste and refinement" -- you'd be surprised how easy it is to find yourself standing on a train platform with not even a sign in English telling you where the train is headed. Since I read Japanese, I tend not to notice it that much, but whenever I've got friends from the U.S. here, it hits me -- while the Japanese try their best to make foreigners feel welcome here, they don't do that good a job when it comes to marking things in English. It's also quite rare to find someone who can help you in English in a shop, if you need it: despite a massive six years of study in Junior High and High School, and four more if the person went to college
Just a last call for calendar pre-orders -- we'll have to stop taking orders for calendars as of the end of October 31st, much as we regret it. J-List has over 150 great 2001 calendars for you to choose from, with great JPOP calendars (former Speed girls, L'Arc~en~Ciel), super anime calendars (Ah My Goddess, Gundam Wing, Sailor Moon), sexy idol calendars (Race Queen Suzuki Fumika, Asakura Megumi), lovely nude calendars (Kanabun)
For this evening, we've got some cool new items for you, including:
- First, we've got new Japanese adult magazines, including the new Cho Very Good!! (cogals), Iketeru Peach Ass Girls (for fans of "wet" themes), The Sperm Oneesan, and more
- For photobook fans, we've got several nice items on the photobook pages, including the Waffle Super Collection, featuring a great selection of lovely Japanese girls
- On the leg fetish photobook, a great item, Windoh! 96, showing what fun you can have with sexy women in skirts and wind machines
- The very hardcore bondage photobook series Black continues, on the high-end S&M photobook page
- For hentai fans, some excellent in-stock copies of PC Angel -- see them on the Magazines (Hentai) page
- Erotic manga fans will enjoy the deluxe size 250+ page hentai manga, Forbidden Meat, on Manga (new releases)
- We've also got additional fresh stock of manga on the manga pages, mostly new releases and best-sellers, including some very cool items that have sold out in the past months
- Do you love dojinshi? We've got not one, but *two* new erotic dojinshi works from Okachimentaiko -- great!
- We have two great new DVDs for you: AV 2000 vol. 1, featuring 20 of Japan's hottest AV gals in a super 120 minute gallery; and Bikini & Underwater Fuck Special, featuring underwater sex, bikini fetishism -- and *English subtitles!*
- More copies of the New Age Girl's Comic Shojo Kakumei can be found on the yaoi page
- For fans of our extremely popular wacky Japanese headbands, we've got fresh stock! See them on the Stickers & Headbands page
- Finally, we have fresh stock of several popular items, including handy Japanese cooking chopsticks, our unique wooden signs ("It is forbidden to urinate here" and "My room"), and the extremely cute "door message" plaques that allow you to tell others when you're in your room or "out of door."
Okay, that's all for now!
Friday, January 28, 2000
Greetings from J-List January 28, 2000
Hello again from Japan, where Nutrasweet is known as "Slim Up Sugar."
The Japanese do love to bathe, and most foreigners living here get caught up in this passion. Going to onsens (hot springs) is the national leisure activity of Japan, and billions are spent annually. Since Japanese have the highest longevity in the world, it would be interesting to see a scientific test done, to see if the daily relaxation gotten from the daily bath had long--term beneficial effects on a person's health.
My kids and I love baths, too -- we have a fancy computer console in our bathroom that fills the bath for you to the preset level and temperature then beeps when it's ready. I also take the kids out to our favorite public bath/sauna, Furo 21, at least once a week. Parents bathing with their kids provides what the Japanese have come to call "skinship" -- the important skin-to-skin relationship between parents and children.
Since the weekend is upon us, we've got an extra good update for J-List readers. The new items added to the site include:
To better serve our customers and protect your privacy, we've made some changes to the order form, allowing you to better specify how you want your package sent from J-List. Gift wrapping is now an option (either for sending gifts to a friend, or as added protection against customs agents in certain countries). You can opt for a completely hand-written label, too, in addition to the "no J-List return address" option. We hope these improvements will serve you!
Thanks for checking out J-List. We hope you have a great weekend!
The Japanese do love to bathe, and most foreigners living here get caught up in this passion. Going to onsens (hot springs) is the national leisure activity of Japan, and billions are spent annually. Since Japanese have the highest longevity in the world, it would be interesting to see a scientific test done, to see if the daily relaxation gotten from the daily bath had long--term beneficial effects on a person's health.
My kids and I love baths, too -- we have a fancy computer console in our bathroom that fills the bath for you to the preset level and temperature then beeps when it's ready. I also take the kids out to our favorite public bath/sauna, Furo 21, at least once a week. Parents bathing with their kids provides what the Japanese have come to call "skinship" -- the important skin-to-skin relationship between parents and children.
Since the weekend is upon us, we've got an extra good update for J-List readers. The new items added to the site include:
- A large volley of new parody game manga, including several volumes of the Electronic Fighting Daughter and Electronic Love Daughter series, in stock!
- For fans of dojinshi and fan-created computer images, we've got a nice new selection of floppy and CD-R-based "dojin-soft" with some really excellent images, including some playable games, on the dojinshi page.
- New magazines, including some excellent new "one shot" magazines on Magazine pages 1 and 2, as well as more of the popular $5 magazine on page 3 (including some "lost" Urecco issues)
A bunch of new in-stock videos, including Asakura Mai, Yumeno Maria, and the lovely Ozawa Madoka (see in-stock videos page 1) - More special-order videos, for people who want to reserve their own copies of the newest, most popular before they come in stock -- we've got some nice ones, including Sakurai Fuka, a nice Elevator Girl item, and more
- A fresh infusion of some all-new Year 2000 calendars, including some unique "beauty of Japan" ones that we're interested in getting feedback on. See most of the calendars on photobook page 1, although some of the anime/JPOP calendars are on those respective pages.
- New puzzles, including a new lovely artwork puzzle by Morita Haruyo (a character from traditional Japan) as well as a super puzzle item for Morning Musume fans
- Finally, a long-deserved update to our Japanese Snacks page, with fresh stock of the delicious "Mogi Mogi Fruits" (Gummi fruit trees) at a lower price, as well as two all-new items: Delicious Gummi Pokemon candy, and one of my all favorite snacks of all time, Shigekix, the incredibly tart lemon "hard gummi" candy. We're very happy to be able to bring these cool treats to people living outside of Japan.
To better serve our customers and protect your privacy, we've made some changes to the order form, allowing you to better specify how you want your package sent from J-List. Gift wrapping is now an option (either for sending gifts to a friend, or as added protection against customs agents in certain countries). You can opt for a completely hand-written label, too, in addition to the "no J-List return address" option. We hope these improvements will serve you!
Thanks for checking out J-List. We hope you have a great weekend!
Thursday, January 27, 2000
Greetings from J-List January 27, 2000
Greetings from Japan, still a very cold place, although it's gotten a little warmer in the past few days.
The big news in Japan is the death of Kin-san, one of two twin sisters who are known and loved througout Japan as "Kin-san and Gin-san." Kin, who was the mother of 11 children during her life, died at the age of 107. Her funeral was today, and the morning wide shows covered the surviving Gin-san, dressed in black, unable to speak out of grief for her sister. The two ancient sisters were twins, born back during the Meiji era, and have been icons of the 1990's in Japan, appearing on TV and in commercials regularly.
Restaurants that serve kaiten-zushi, or sushi served on a conveyor belt, are feeling the pinch of the ongoing Japanese recession, and owners are fighting back, trying to find ways of capturing more customers. They're pioneering new ideas, such as providing plastic covers that you lift before you take a dish of sushi off the belt (to counter worries over sanitation), or keeping the fish live in tanks in the restaurant, so the customers can watch as the fish is gutted and sliced fresh right before their eyes. One chain of kaiten-zushi restaurants even operates convenient stores in the same building, allowing customers to sit down and enjoy some sushi while doing their "conbini" shopping.
We've got some really nice new items tonight. The new items include:
We hope you're having a warm and pleasant middle of the week. See you on the web!
The big news in Japan is the death of Kin-san, one of two twin sisters who are known and loved througout Japan as "Kin-san and Gin-san." Kin, who was the mother of 11 children during her life, died at the age of 107. Her funeral was today, and the morning wide shows covered the surviving Gin-san, dressed in black, unable to speak out of grief for her sister. The two ancient sisters were twins, born back during the Meiji era, and have been icons of the 1990's in Japan, appearing on TV and in commercials regularly.
Restaurants that serve kaiten-zushi, or sushi served on a conveyor belt, are feeling the pinch of the ongoing Japanese recession, and owners are fighting back, trying to find ways of capturing more customers. They're pioneering new ideas, such as providing plastic covers that you lift before you take a dish of sushi off the belt (to counter worries over sanitation), or keeping the fish live in tanks in the restaurant, so the customers can watch as the fish is gutted and sliced fresh right before their eyes. One chain of kaiten-zushi restaurants even operates convenient stores in the same building, allowing customers to sit down and enjoy some sushi while doing their "conbini" shopping.
We've got some really nice new items tonight. The new items include:
- The new issue of Urecco, which is a wonderful issue, featuring many of the girls J-List fans want to see
- More stock of the best-selling Immoral Lesson, starring Fubuki Akira, the #2 selling video in J-List's history (second only to Baby Oil)
- Fresh stock of many of the manga volumes that had sold out in the past, including more copies of "King of Sperm" -- see the Hentai Manga page for the new items
- An update to the S&M/Fetish photobook page, with some nice new items for fans of bondage and "cosplay" and women from the "hitozuma, or married women genres
- A great update of special-order adult videos, including Race Queen, Contrary Soap Heaven, let fetish, and more
- For collectors, we've got in a great supply of English-language Pokemon cards, that are in stock and ready to go out to you now.
We hope you're having a warm and pleasant middle of the week. See you on the web!
Greetings from J-List October 27, 2000
Happy Friday from J-List, now with 20% more Pocky!
The Japanese bishojo game Tokimeki Memorial is one of the most popular games ever to come out of Japan, and has sold over 1.1 million copies in its various forms, making Konami one of the major game companies in the country. Now Japanese investors can own a piece of the Tokimemo legacy, with a new Tokimemo Fund that was recently created. Basically, investors buy shares of the fund, which is tied to the future performance of the Tokimeki Memorial licensing franchise. The more popular the games and characters become, the higher the shares will rise.
The Sogo department store chain is the latest casualty of the beleaguered Japanese economy. The massive debt run up by the unprofitable chain finally caught up with it, causing closure of dozens of the company's stores all around Japan. As part of a government-assisted bailout, the chain's creditors will receive payment for the massive debts, but the total bill comes out to $15 for every Japanese citizen. One factor in the chain's failure is probably slowness in adapting to changes in the world around it. Typing www.sogo.co.jp into a web browser brings up nothing -- the company had not even created a homepage. Close competitor Takashimaya, however, has a highly developed web (www.takashimaya.co.jp) that you can even buy products from.
For this weekend's update, we've got some extra special items, including:
We've received word from our calendar distributors that we will have to close orders on Oct 31st -- in past years, we've kept them open into November, with a disclaimer that calendars ordered later in "calendar season" might not be available. Since we'll have to close calendar orders early this year, we again hope -- at the risk of repeating ourselves -- that anyone who is interested in getting a beautiful, large-format, glossy Japanese calendar for 2001 get their orders in ASAP. Thanks!
We hope you have a fun weekend wherever you are. Until next time, we'll see you on the web!
The Japanese bishojo game Tokimeki Memorial is one of the most popular games ever to come out of Japan, and has sold over 1.1 million copies in its various forms, making Konami one of the major game companies in the country. Now Japanese investors can own a piece of the Tokimemo legacy, with a new Tokimemo Fund that was recently created. Basically, investors buy shares of the fund, which is tied to the future performance of the Tokimeki Memorial licensing franchise. The more popular the games and characters become, the higher the shares will rise.
The Sogo department store chain is the latest casualty of the beleaguered Japanese economy. The massive debt run up by the unprofitable chain finally caught up with it, causing closure of dozens of the company's stores all around Japan. As part of a government-assisted bailout, the chain's creditors will receive payment for the massive debts, but the total bill comes out to $15 for every Japanese citizen. One factor in the chain's failure is probably slowness in adapting to changes in the world around it. Typing www.sogo.co.jp into a web browser brings up nothing -- the company had not even created a homepage. Close competitor Takashimaya, however, has a highly developed web (www.takashimaya.co.jp) that you can even buy products from.
For this weekend's update, we've got some extra special items, including:
- First, even more of our extremely popular $5 magazine items -- help us clear out our overfilled stock room
- Also for lovers of Japanese adult magazines, the new Gal's Dee, the bust fetish magazine for fans of lovely, busty Japanese women
- For photobook fans, we've got not one, but two lovely new photobooks capturing the #1 AV idol in Japan today, Kawashima Azumi
- For fans of our high-end bondage photobooks, we've got the excellent new Slave Mania, as well as the new Anal-ko Club, for fans of "Hip and Anal"
- We've got fresh stock of the Crystal Card nude AV idol collectible cards, on the Photobooks page 1
Fans of the excellent erotic illustrations of Hawazaki Takuma, creator of Golden Stage and Innocent Age, will love his super new manga, Doctorine of the Sailor Suit (on Manga -> New releases) - Also of interest to manga fans, limited stock of three special volumes of the popular "How to draw manga girls" art books, on Manga -> New releases (and cross posted to the art book pages)
- Love erotic dojinshi? We've got fresh stock of several red-hot books from Okachimentaiko, as well as stock of their newest release, Gorippa 2 (take note, busty female fans)
- On the newly christened Hentai Magazines page, we've got new in-stock hentai magazines, including extra copies of the newest E-Login
- Very cool for Yaoi fans, copies of the extremely popular Be-Boy Gold
- For fans of Japanese snacks, we've got a major update to our snacks, including fresh stock of original as well as the best-selling Men's Pocky, Strawberry Pocky (with real strawberry bits), Milky Candy, the excellent Chelsea Butterscotch candy, and of course, our popular sake candy (with real sake!)
- Fans of the old classic Johnny Socko and his Flying Robot (a childhood love of Peter's) should check out the Giant Robo Miracle Action Figure toys, on the Anime Toys page
- We have some copies of the current Newtype in-stock on the Anime & JPOP Magazines page (it's a great issue!)
- Last, but not least, we've got -- real origami paper, for making classic Japanese origami creations. Each pack contains 49 sheets of wonderfully colored paper for creating origami, and comes with instructions on how to make a Japanese crane. See it on the Wacky Things from Japan page!
We've received word from our calendar distributors that we will have to close orders on Oct 31st -- in past years, we've kept them open into November, with a disclaimer that calendars ordered later in "calendar season" might not be available. Since we'll have to close calendar orders early this year, we again hope -- at the risk of repeating ourselves -- that anyone who is interested in getting a beautiful, large-format, glossy Japanese calendar for 2001 get their orders in ASAP. Thanks!
We hope you have a fun weekend wherever you are. Until next time, we'll see you on the web!
Tuesday, January 25, 2000
Greetings from J-List October 25, 2000
Hello again from Japan!
The Japanese love seasons, and Autumn is here in full force. Throughout the country, the trees are turning beautiful shades of yellow and red, and Japanese make regular excursions to the countryside to take in the beauty. For Americans, October means pumpkins and Halloween, but in Japan, the image of the changing of the leaves, and of the full October moon, are very dominant.
There are certain changes that happen to Americans who live in Japan for a long time. For one, you get quite comfortable with the metric system, and start annoying your friends and family by referring everything in centimeters and kilometers. My shoe size is 26.5 cm, but I've long forgotten it in inches, just as I've forgotten how much I weigh in pounds. But the Japanese don't use the metric system for everything. While hectares are used for measuring land sometimes, it's far more convenient to express land in tsubo, which is a unit of measurement equal to two tatami mats. When talking about the sizes of rooms, you never use square meters, but instead refer to the number of tatami mats the room contains (or would contain, if it were a tatami room).
For tonight's update, we've got some very nice items for you, including:
J-List keeps hundreds of our popular Japanese adult videos in stock all the time, but sometimes we get overstocked on certain titles. You can find these marked down videos on the Videos -> Discount page, so check out what we've got!
The Japanese love seasons, and Autumn is here in full force. Throughout the country, the trees are turning beautiful shades of yellow and red, and Japanese make regular excursions to the countryside to take in the beauty. For Americans, October means pumpkins and Halloween, but in Japan, the image of the changing of the leaves, and of the full October moon, are very dominant.
There are certain changes that happen to Americans who live in Japan for a long time. For one, you get quite comfortable with the metric system, and start annoying your friends and family by referring everything in centimeters and kilometers. My shoe size is 26.5 cm, but I've long forgotten it in inches, just as I've forgotten how much I weigh in pounds. But the Japanese don't use the metric system for everything. While hectares are used for measuring land sometimes, it's far more convenient to express land in tsubo, which is a unit of measurement equal to two tatami mats. When talking about the sizes of rooms, you never use square meters, but instead refer to the number of tatami mats the room contains (or would contain, if it were a tatami room).
For tonight's update, we've got some very nice items for you, including:
- First, several in stock issues of some of our most popular hentai game and manga magazines, including PC Angel, Shojo Kakumei, and the best-selling hentai magazine in Japan, E-Login -- see Magazines -> Hentai and Manga -> new releases for these items
- We have some excellent new photobooks in stock, including a super one by the Queen of Soap, Sakurai Fuka
- For S&M fans, an excellent new edition of the SM Uniform Collection ("bloomer" edition), along with a very hard core "medical" fetish photobook
- If you love Japan's unique erotic manga, check out the newly added titles by EX Comics, Peace Comics and Izumi Comics, which are great
- For MPEG fans, a new magazine & dual-VCD item that gives you 130 minutes of quickie sampler material -- a great value. Find this item on DVD -> MPEG & CD ROMs
- For Japan AV fans, more excellent in-stock videos on Videos -> New releases, including the excellent panty and mini-skirt fetish video "Fuckin' Cute Mini-Skirt Land"
- Also ranking very high on the "cool" meter, another hot anime cosplay video, this one parodying Yamato/Star Blazers, Captain Harlock and Galaxy Express 999 -- see it on Videos -> Theme videos or the special order video pages if we run out of stock
- For lovers of Japan's beautiful Race Queens, a super cool collectible set of Race Queen cards, on the Idols page, and also on Anime -> Cards and Puzzle
- We have several in-stock issues of Goods Press, which follows everything that's popular in Japan today -- see these on Magazines page 2
- For this evening's addition to our Wacky Things from Japan pages, two classic Japanese posters depicting beautiful scenes from the Edo period. One is a reproduction of a beautiful Ukiyoe portrait, and the other is the famous "Red Fuji" image of Japan's most famous mountain
- For everyone who suffers from puffy or tired legs, we've got cute inflatable foot pillows that raise your feet comfortably. A great item from Japan, also on the Wacky Things page
- Finally, our JPOP CD customers will have no doubt noticed the disappearance of our JPOP page. We regret not being able to bring as many high-quality, low-price JPOP CDs as we'd like to our customers. We've got a welcome surprise for JPOP fans though -- an infusion of over 30 JPOP CD singles and albums, with lots of very nice items from some of our favorites. As always, J-List's prices on JPOP are the lowest you'll find ever, because we buy CDs from used CD shops. Find the CDs on Anime -> Anime/JPOP Mags & More!
J-List keeps hundreds of our popular Japanese adult videos in stock all the time, but sometimes we get overstocked on certain titles. You can find these marked down videos on the Videos -> Discount page, so check out what we've got!
Monday, January 24, 2000
Greetings from J-List January 24, 2000
Hello from Japan, where, as someone once said, you know no one in the kitchen is horcking in your food.
Well, the performance is finally over. I was nervous, but it came off fine, with only a few mistakes on my part. The kids were wonderful, with performances ranging from Borelo to a dramatic interpretation of the Battle of Aizu-Wakamatsu, where 40 samurai chose to take their lives in seppuku rather than surrender to the forces who were trying to turn Japan into a modern Constitutional Monarchy. See my report on the show, along with a 2.7 mb Quicktime movie, at http://www.myjapan.net/peter/happyo.html .
Newly added items in tonight's update include:
J-List is the only place we know of where you can still get the excellent Bakuretsu Hunter cold-cast figure -- and Tifa, which comes with beautiful styling and detail, and a solid oak base, is only $138 until we run out of stock. We really recommend this great figure!
Well, the performance is finally over. I was nervous, but it came off fine, with only a few mistakes on my part. The kids were wonderful, with performances ranging from Borelo to a dramatic interpretation of the Battle of Aizu-Wakamatsu, where 40 samurai chose to take their lives in seppuku rather than surrender to the forces who were trying to turn Japan into a modern Constitutional Monarchy. See my report on the show, along with a 2.7 mb Quicktime movie, at http://www.myjapan.net/peter/happyo.html .
Newly added items in tonight's update include:
- New magazines, including the new Bejeans, Gokuh and Men's Master
- Nice back-in-stock photobook items, including the popular "On the Saddle, Sawaguchi Rina's popular Incentive, and many more items
- Super new Miffy and Hello Kitty stuffed animals, including Military Kitty-chan, on the Anime & Toys page
- Great all-new items on the Hentai Manga page, as well as more copies of the popular Moon Paradise dojinshi anthology that had sold out before
- Great new dojinshi posted to the dojinshi page -- check and see
J-List is the only place we know of where you can still get the excellent Bakuretsu Hunter cold-cast figure -- and Tifa, which comes with beautiful styling and detail, and a solid oak base, is only $138 until we run out of stock. We really recommend this great figure!
Sunday, January 23, 2000
Greetings from J-List October 23, 2000
Greetings from Japan, the country with feminine products with names like "Charmy body fit."
Japanese as a language has many elements not found in English, which can be challenging to students of the language. One of these areas is the Japanese system of polite language (keigo), which is used occasionally in extremely formal situations and in business speech. There are two basic functions of keigo: to raise the level of the person you're talking to (called "exhaulting" speech); and to lower your own level (called "humble" speech). There are actually different verbs to use depending on the subject in a polite sentence, so if you said, What will you eat, Sensei? I'm going to eat sushi, you'd use different verbs for the two occurrences of "eat" depending on the subject of the sentence. There's a complex version of this used in business speech. If someone from an outside company calls, asking to speak to your boss, you'd use exhaulting speech to refer to the caller, but humble speech to refer to your boss, as he's a part of your "uchi" or in-group, compared with the person calling from outside.
Related to Japanese polite speech is the honorific "o" that goes in front of some words, to give them a higher status. Words like money (okane), relationships like mother or grandmother (okaasan, obaasan), and so on -- it could be translated as "honorable" in Engish, but of course it's never translated blatantly like that (thank God). It's interesting to notice the patterns of words that take this "o" -- words having to do with death or Buddhism tend to take it (otera = temple, okou = Buddhist incense), yet words related to Shinto (the original Japanese religion) usually don't. Adding the honorific "o" to words sort of "softens" the word, so words related to children or babies tend to take the prefix (omaru = child's toilet, omutsu = diapers). Perhaps for this reason
We usual, we've got a bunch of excellent items for you, including:
Remember that J-List is one of the few places where you can find the popular adult "dojinshi anthology" manga Lunatic Party (Sailor Moon parody) and Paradise Lost/Angelic Impact (Evangelion). Although these books are out of print, J-List has a special relationship with the publisher, and still have a good supply of most volumes. Anthologies of some of the best dojinishi ever released in Japan, the artwork is fantastic in these books, and each volume has 160+ pages. You can see these extremely cool items on the Manga -> Parody Manga.
Japanese as a language has many elements not found in English, which can be challenging to students of the language. One of these areas is the Japanese system of polite language (keigo), which is used occasionally in extremely formal situations and in business speech. There are two basic functions of keigo: to raise the level of the person you're talking to (called "exhaulting" speech); and to lower your own level (called "humble" speech). There are actually different verbs to use depending on the subject in a polite sentence, so if you said, What will you eat, Sensei? I'm going to eat sushi, you'd use different verbs for the two occurrences of "eat" depending on the subject of the sentence. There's a complex version of this used in business speech. If someone from an outside company calls, asking to speak to your boss, you'd use exhaulting speech to refer to the caller, but humble speech to refer to your boss, as he's a part of your "uchi" or in-group, compared with the person calling from outside.
Related to Japanese polite speech is the honorific "o" that goes in front of some words, to give them a higher status. Words like money (okane), relationships like mother or grandmother (okaasan, obaasan), and so on -- it could be translated as "honorable" in Engish, but of course it's never translated blatantly like that (thank God). It's interesting to notice the patterns of words that take this "o" -- words having to do with death or Buddhism tend to take it (otera = temple, okou = Buddhist incense), yet words related to Shinto (the original Japanese religion) usually don't. Adding the honorific "o" to words sort of "softens" the word, so words related to children or babies tend to take the prefix (omaru = child's toilet, omutsu = diapers). Perhaps for this reason
We usual, we've got a bunch of excellent items for you, including:
- First of all, even more magazines for our red-hot $5 magazine sale, to replenish items that have sold over the past few days
- In addition to another addition of books to our magazine sale page (Magazine page 3), we've got several all-new items, including the new issue of Aishite Ageru ("I'll Love You"), a popular "wet" fetish magazine from Japan
- We have several classic photobooks on the photobooks pages, including copies of the premium Santa Fe by Miyazawa Rie, and more
- For our leg fetish customers, we've got a wonderful and elegant leg, stocking and high-heel fetish book, Leg Karisma -- see the leg fetish photobook page for this item
- Like Japanese S&M books? We've got a very special on on the gouka-bon page -- with 50 models and 340 all color pages!
- J-List sells tons of unique Japanese adult manga, because they're of such incredibly high quality. For our manga customers, we've got a bunch of new, as well as "back from the dead" (previously sold out ) manga titles, with limited stock of several out-of-print items. See Manga -> New items and Manga -> Best-sellers for these items
- For dojinshi fans, we have fresh stock of the popular Kaiten erotic dojinshi (Sailor Moon and popular game gals), on the dojinshi page
- We have some excellent new videos by Soft on Demand (a company we really respect), with a new "tekoki" (hand job and penis study) offering, and two great new videos from the lovely Sakura Nana!
- Also for video fans, two great cosplay videos, with great erotic footage with characters from Eva, Gundam Wing and Japan's most popular fighting games
- For fans of esoteric toys from Japan, we've got new "Ultra Detail Figures" from the Planet of the Apes movies -- Dr. Zaius, General Urko, and a new soldier ape. Very detailed!
- Finally, for those interested in unique things from Japan, we've got some "Magic Magnets, small magnets you stick on your body, which increase bloodflow and overall health, according to the Japanese. See them on the Wacky things from Japan" page.
Remember that J-List is one of the few places where you can find the popular adult "dojinshi anthology" manga Lunatic Party (Sailor Moon parody) and Paradise Lost/Angelic Impact (Evangelion). Although these books are out of print, J-List has a special relationship with the publisher, and still have a good supply of most volumes. Anthologies of some of the best dojinishi ever released in Japan, the artwork is fantastic in these books, and each volume has 160+ pages. You can see these extremely cool items on the Manga -> Parody Manga.
Saturday, January 22, 2000
Greetings from J-List January 22, 2000
Hello from a very cold and windy Japan. The temperature is well below the freezing point as the Sea of Japan side of the country is experiencing very strong snowfall. The Japanese Alps (yes, they really call them that) are protecting the Tokyo area from the snow, but it's really cold. North Americans who are used to such staples as central heating, but in Japan, heat is provided to one room at a time via kerosene heaters (called "stoves") which invariably run out of fuel at the most inconvenient times, forcing you to go outside to pump more kerosene (and get kerosene on your hands).
I'm a little nervous before my big performance tomorrow. Sunday is the annual school show put on by our kids' preschool, and it's a huge affair, with over 20 acts performed by the children, the staff -- and parents. I'm in a group that'll be performing a taiko (Japanese drum) number, and being the only foreigner in the group, any tiny mistake I make is sure to be caught by the entire audience.
I'm rushing to get the update off so I can get home (and get warm). For your viewing enjoyment, there's an interesting site that features some Quicktime VR movies of scenes around Tokyo at http://www.Dancy.com/vr/index.html#QTVRPart01 . (Quicktime 3 or 4 with QTVR installed is required.) It's just like being here!
Newly added items to the J-List site tonight include:
Well, that's tonight's update. Have a nice weekend, and wish me luck on stage!
I'm a little nervous before my big performance tomorrow. Sunday is the annual school show put on by our kids' preschool, and it's a huge affair, with over 20 acts performed by the children, the staff -- and parents. I'm in a group that'll be performing a taiko (Japanese drum) number, and being the only foreigner in the group, any tiny mistake I make is sure to be caught by the entire audience.
I'm rushing to get the update off so I can get home (and get warm). For your viewing enjoyment, there's an interesting site that features some Quicktime VR movies of scenes around Tokyo at http://www.Dancy.com/vr/index.html#QTVRPart01 . (Quicktime 3 or 4 with QTVR installed is required.) It's just like being here!
Newly added items to the J-List site tonight include:
- New magazines, including the new issues of Dela Beppin, Video Boy and Best Vide, as well as a dozen or more $5 magazines for our $5 magazine sale (see new magazines on magazine page 1, $5 magazines on page 3)
- Several new in-stock videos, courtesy of Kaori, featuring Kawashima Azumi, Wakana Sena, and more
- New Yaoi manga on the Yaoi page o and two new Japanese puzzles on the puzzle page, including a new illustration by the excellent Yoshitaka Amano (creator of Vampire Hunter D).
Well, that's tonight's update. Have a nice weekend, and wish me luck on stage!
Thursday, January 20, 2000
Greetings from J-List January 20, 2000
Hello from Japan, home of the the original salad-flavored pretzel.
My wife and I are like a mirror reflection of each other sometimes. We were watching one of the "Natsukashii (nostalgic) Anime" TV shows they have here, and they showed some old Astro Boy anime. Kazuki, who loves robots of any kind (especially Grand Liner, a robot that turns into a train), asked what the show was. My wife answered "Astro Boy" in English at the same time I answered "Tetsuwan Atom" in Japanese. The poor boy is never going to get his languages straight...
One area that has really changed in the past few years is the world of investment and finance. Turned on its ear three years ago when one of the "big three" securities firms suddenly closed its doors, Japanese investors are now offered many more choices, with the entry of Merril Lynch, Fidelity, E*Trade and others into the Japanese market. Nowadays, commercials for investment opportunities rival the high-interest loan companies for commercial time on late-night TV.
Tonight's update is a special one, with a lot of nice new items being added to the list. First and foremost, we've added some great new manga to the hentai manga page, including a new issue of the Electronic Fighting Girls parody dojinshi anthology which should be very popular. For fans of Yaoi manga, we've got two very nice new "wide" manga, too. There are new dojinshi and "dojin-soft" items in the dojinshi section, including some floppy-based CG collections that we picked up at the last Comic Market. If you love JPOP, we've got recent singles by Amuro Namie and Globe on the JPOP page, and on the Anime & Toys page, we've got new Lodoss toys
Announcing the J-List $5 Magazine Sale. As a ways of saying thanks for all your support, and to help us clear out old stock, we're happy to announce that all items on Magazine page 3 will be just $5 -- and to make sure there's lots of good stuff, we've stocked the page with great items like Dela Beppin, Bejean, Mr. Max, Nippon Mini-Skirt Club, Gal's Dee, and Urecco -- over two-dozen listings. Most of the items are "one-shots, so they'll go fast. Make sure you check out the J-List Magazine page 3, now.
J-List has the last known stock of the excellent Lunatic Party and Angelic Impact adult dojinshi anthologies, which parody Sailor Moon and Evangelion. We've lowered all prices on these excellent series, so check out the excellent books on the Adult Manga (Parody) page, now!
My wife and I are like a mirror reflection of each other sometimes. We were watching one of the "Natsukashii (nostalgic) Anime" TV shows they have here, and they showed some old Astro Boy anime. Kazuki, who loves robots of any kind (especially Grand Liner, a robot that turns into a train), asked what the show was. My wife answered "Astro Boy" in English at the same time I answered "Tetsuwan Atom" in Japanese. The poor boy is never going to get his languages straight...
One area that has really changed in the past few years is the world of investment and finance. Turned on its ear three years ago when one of the "big three" securities firms suddenly closed its doors, Japanese investors are now offered many more choices, with the entry of Merril Lynch, Fidelity, E*Trade and others into the Japanese market. Nowadays, commercials for investment opportunities rival the high-interest loan companies for commercial time on late-night TV.
Tonight's update is a special one, with a lot of nice new items being added to the list. First and foremost, we've added some great new manga to the hentai manga page, including a new issue of the Electronic Fighting Girls parody dojinshi anthology which should be very popular. For fans of Yaoi manga, we've got two very nice new "wide" manga, too. There are new dojinshi and "dojin-soft" items in the dojinshi section, including some floppy-based CG collections that we picked up at the last Comic Market. If you love JPOP, we've got recent singles by Amuro Namie and Globe on the JPOP page, and on the Anime & Toys page, we've got new Lodoss toys
Announcing the J-List $5 Magazine Sale. As a ways of saying thanks for all your support, and to help us clear out old stock, we're happy to announce that all items on Magazine page 3 will be just $5 -- and to make sure there's lots of good stuff, we've stocked the page with great items like Dela Beppin, Bejean, Mr. Max, Nippon Mini-Skirt Club, Gal's Dee, and Urecco -- over two-dozen listings. Most of the items are "one-shots, so they'll go fast. Make sure you check out the J-List Magazine page 3, now.
J-List has the last known stock of the excellent Lunatic Party and Angelic Impact adult dojinshi anthologies, which parody Sailor Moon and Evangelion. We've lowered all prices on these excellent series, so check out the excellent books on the Adult Manga (Parody) page, now!
Greetings from J-List October 20, 2000
Hello again from Japan, where going to Kentucky means eating chicken and everyone thinks IT stands for "Internet technology."
Rice is the national staple food of the Japanese, and almost everyone eats rice with one or two meals each day. The word "okazu" means "that which goes with rice" -- fish, chicken, or "hamburg" steak -- and figures into most every evening meal. The most delicious rice is koshi-hikari, and the most famous region of Japan for growing this rice is Niigata Prefecture (the "snow country" in Kawabata's famous novel). Older Japanese often imagine that bread plays the same role to Americans as rice does to the Japanese, that we plan each and every meal around what kind of bread we have today -- but of course, this isn't usually the case. Japanese can be very silly about rice -- the exact same stalk of rice that tastes good grown in Niigata Prefecture would certainly taste terrible if grown in California or Thailand, for example -- but each nation should be permitted certain hang-ups. The economical situation of Japan's rice farmers is a major factor in politics here, and the most important sector of support to Japan's long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party are the rice farmer unions -- every once in a while they get the urge to drive their tractors through downtown Maebashi in protest of something or the other, bringing traffic in the city to a half. Virtually no young people are involved in or interested in farming here in Japan
We're happy to report that the first of the calendars have come in! The ones that came in are the first ones posted (the Joy of Sushi, Morita Haruyo collection, and so on), and more calendar pre-orders will be coming in soon. Unfortunately, the deadline for calendars is looming, and we've been told by our calendar distributor that we should stop taking orders as of the end of October. After the end of this month, many of the most popular calendars will start to sell out, and may not be available. We believe these excellent, high-quality calendars stand for much of what we love about Japan, and we hope that you'll consider getting some of them for yourself or loved ones before calendar season ends this year.
Ah My Goddess! has pulled into the lead, with Totoro, Evangelion, and Gundam Wing close behind. Kanabun's nude calendar is at the head of the pack, with the surprising "Hot springs nudes" in second place. Lovely Race Queen Suzuki Fumika is in first place in the "lovely ladies of Japan" category, followed by swimsuit idol Satoh Eriko, Fukuda Kyoko and "mini-skirt police" idol Asakura Megumi. Other popular calendars this year are the Joy of Sushi and Joy of Soba, The Way (different slogans in Kanji), and the excellent Japanese scroll paintings 2001 calendar.
For this evening's update, we've got a bunch of very nice items for you, including:
Okay, go check out the items!
Rice is the national staple food of the Japanese, and almost everyone eats rice with one or two meals each day. The word "okazu" means "that which goes with rice" -- fish, chicken, or "hamburg" steak -- and figures into most every evening meal. The most delicious rice is koshi-hikari, and the most famous region of Japan for growing this rice is Niigata Prefecture (the "snow country" in Kawabata's famous novel). Older Japanese often imagine that bread plays the same role to Americans as rice does to the Japanese, that we plan each and every meal around what kind of bread we have today -- but of course, this isn't usually the case. Japanese can be very silly about rice -- the exact same stalk of rice that tastes good grown in Niigata Prefecture would certainly taste terrible if grown in California or Thailand, for example -- but each nation should be permitted certain hang-ups. The economical situation of Japan's rice farmers is a major factor in politics here, and the most important sector of support to Japan's long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party are the rice farmer unions -- every once in a while they get the urge to drive their tractors through downtown Maebashi in protest of something or the other, bringing traffic in the city to a half. Virtually no young people are involved in or interested in farming here in Japan
We're happy to report that the first of the calendars have come in! The ones that came in are the first ones posted (the Joy of Sushi, Morita Haruyo collection, and so on), and more calendar pre-orders will be coming in soon. Unfortunately, the deadline for calendars is looming, and we've been told by our calendar distributor that we should stop taking orders as of the end of October. After the end of this month, many of the most popular calendars will start to sell out, and may not be available. We believe these excellent, high-quality calendars stand for much of what we love about Japan, and we hope that you'll consider getting some of them for yourself or loved ones before calendar season ends this year.
Ah My Goddess! has pulled into the lead, with Totoro, Evangelion, and Gundam Wing close behind. Kanabun's nude calendar is at the head of the pack, with the surprising "Hot springs nudes" in second place. Lovely Race Queen Suzuki Fumika is in first place in the "lovely ladies of Japan" category, followed by swimsuit idol Satoh Eriko, Fukuda Kyoko and "mini-skirt police" idol Asakura Megumi. Other popular calendars this year are the Joy of Sushi and Joy of Soba, The Way (different slogans in Kanji), and the excellent Japanese scroll paintings 2001 calendar.
For this evening's update, we've got a bunch of very nice items for you, including:
- First, even more magazines for our extremely popuylar $5 magazine sale --
- On magazines page 1, a great new issue of the high-value Top Video
- The first calendars have come in, and we've got stock of several of them -- see the tops of the Calendars pages (nudes and beautiful views of Japan) for the in-stock items
- For photobook fans, the dynamite hardcover photobooks of Takamatsu Ai ("Cosmos") and Mochizuki Karen ("Prologue")
- S&M and bondage photobooks will enjoy the two excellent new gouka-bon format books, on the S&M photobooks page
- If you like hentai manga, we've got several excellent all-new books for you (Manga -> New releases), in addition to some really excellent back-in-stock manga that have come back in (Manga -> Best-sellers) -- over a dozen new items in all
- Several back-in-stock photobooks are posted, including Privacy 004, Kajiwara Norika's erotic nude photobook (she looks like the popular actress Fujiwara Norika), and for Fubuki Akira fans, fresh stock of the sold-out So Long photobook (photographed in Great Britan!)
- If you love amateur AV, check out Peepers, a fun all-amateur magazine and Video CD item with 70 minutes of footage -- on DVD -> MPEG CD-ROM
- For Japan AV video fans, we've got several excellent new titles in stock (Videos -> New releases) including Kanazawa Bunko's excellent "Mouthful of Ejaculation"
- For DVD lovers, the excellent History of Crystal, with 220 minutes of footage from the last five years of this company's history (region 2 encoded)
- If you love Japan's excellent SF films, check out Uchusen, a super item filled with information on Godzilla, Kamen Rider, and much more -- on Anime -> Anime & Manga magazines
- For Japanese snack fans, more stock of the very cool only-from-Japan Digimon toys
- Back in stock on our popular Wacky Things from Japan page are more wooden signs ("do not urinate here"), more Hello Kitty chopsticks (amaze your friends!), more Japanese vocabulary study cards, and more "socks glue" to hold your "loose socks" up with!
- Finally, another delicious snack item that I've loved for years -- Japanese "persimmon seed" rice crackers with peanuts! So spicy, so tasty. See them on the Snack pages.
- We've added a selection of links on how to view region-2 encoded DVD players, on our region-2 DVD page. Included is information on code-free DVD players, hacks and kits for your current DVD player, and firmware for DVD ROM drives. We also recommend a very nice DVD code-free player that we recommend for all fans of international DVD. Thanks to all J-List customers who helped us assemble the list.
Okay, go check out the items!
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