Hello again from your friends in Japan!
There’s been some concern that some of the terrorists responsible for the World Trade Center attack might have snuck into Japan, and might possibly be trying something. It honestly wouldn’t surprise me — sadly, Japan has a bit of a complex about foreigners, and aside from checking their entry documents carefully when they enter the country and occasionally hassling a gaijin about the ownership of the bicycle he happens to be riding, foreigners living in Japan are not watched very closely. In Japan as a whole, about 1% of the population are foreigners, mostly from Korea, Peru, Brazil, and Pakistan (gaijin from America or Europe are actually quite rare). In Isesaki, where we live, the foreign population is much higher, at 3%. Before the attack, it was quite common to see foreigners walking together, often (in the case of those of Muslim religion) wearing the traditional clothing of their countries. If some unsavory terrorists have managed to get inside Japan, I think it would be rather easy for them to do damage to the country in some way. Considering that almost no police officers here even speak English, getting information on suspects speaking another language would be very difficult.
In Japan, the new rice crop is it. New rice is supposed to taste much better than last year’s crop, although I doubt if I could tell the difference. With the new rice, Japanese makers of home electronics are trying to capture consumer’s dollars with new high-tech rice cookers. Zojirushi (“Mark of the Elephant”) has a new model that uses a special iron pot to distribute heat to the cooking rice more smoothly. Mitsubishi is counting with a model that sends supersonic sound waves into the rice as it cooks, to make better-tasting rice, the company says. The staple of all Japanese people, Japanese eat rice with two or three meals a day. The bes rice comes from Niigata Prefecture, the “rice basket” of Japan, and the best-selling brand of rice is called Koshi-Hikari. After living in Japan for nine years, I eat rice and all other Japanese foods all the time, and couldn’t live without them. I’ve also adapted some of my old favorites: Chef Boy-ar-dee Ravioli is really good on rice — try it sometime!
We’ve been working hard to bring you some of Japan’s best bishoujo (hentai) games in English for some years. During that time, we’ve made a lot of games with a lot of genres in it. Still, one of my favorites of all time is Season of the Sakura, a year-long romance simulation game in which you must choose which of 8 girls you want to have fall in love with you. It’s extra fun, because all the characters are blatantly stolen from three famous anime shows: Evangelion, Magical Knight Rayearth and St. Tail. Watching Evangelion was great fun — I got to get all the wacky inside jokes that were put in by the game designers. Now I’ve just gone done watching the Rayearth anime series, and I get to enjoy a whole new slew of new puns that the game offers. Since this is such a great game, and since we’re a bit overstocked, we’re lowering the price to by $10. If you haven’t played this very enjoyable game, why not give it a try?
For this long weekend’s update, we’ve got some special items for you, including:
- First, we’ve got some nice new magazines, including the new Cream, for fans of lovely young Japanese women, a new Idol Hakkutsu Magazine with embarrassing and rare shots of Japanese idols, Namper, and more
- For hentai game fans, we’ve got some single issues of Bug Bug with lots of screenshots and information on Japan’s latest games
- For fans of magazines that come with video CDs filled with sampler footage, we’ve got the new DVD Perfect Guide, featuring 3 VCDs from 216 titles — 200 minutes of footage for a super low price
- If you love Japan’s unique panty stocking and let fetishism, check out the new Panst Best, a dynamite softcover photobook of Japanese women in high skirts shot from a low angle, with sexy panty stockings, high heeled shoes and more
- For photobook fans, we’ve got new hard- and soft-cover photobooks, including Akari’s “Himitsu” nude hardcover photobook, a great item for race queens, and more
- We have a major update of doujinshi, with many nice new books for fans of hentai Evangelion, Love Hina, Nadesico, Air, Kanon and more — and with good stock of all books
- We also have a very nice update to our erotic manga pages, with several all-new offerings by Tsukasa Comics, Mujin Comics and more
- For yaoi fans, we’ve got two new volumes in the b-Boy Zips series, dealing with many interesting classic yaoi erotic themes
- For fans of our DVDs, we’ve got some nice new ones. The new Semen Gokkun Series features excellent bukkake and sperm-eating fun as only SOD can bring it to you. For fans of sexy panty stockings, we’ve got the great Panty Hose Lovers DVD from Atlas 21
- For fans of SOD’s excellent video offerings, see The First Cock Suckin’ and Finger Shakin’ Contest, a great battle of fellatio and tekoki (hand job) to determine which girl is the Queen! This item was requested by many J-List customers so we think you’ll like it
- If you love Japan’s lovely swimsuit idols, and who doesn’t, we have fresh stock of one of the most often-requested items in recent memory: Bururun Club vol III, which features tons of cards signed by the models, and even special cards that contain pieces of the actual swimsuit used in photography
- For fans of traditional Japanese chopsticks, we’ve got some nice items for you, posted to the Wacky Things -> Traditional page, as well as fresh stock of the popular traditional Japanese tray
- If you love the cute “super deformed” Star Wars toys we offer, we’ve got fresh stock of several of them — Darth Vader, Boba Fett, and the Stormtrooper
- On our Japanese snacks & food page, we’ve got many nice items, including all-new traditional Japanese hard candy varieties, Cupie mayonnaise, tart Japanese dried plums, and more
- We’ve got a new wacky Japanese headband on the Signs & Stickers page: “Now in training” (Shugyo-chu), good for anyone trying to reach a goal, as well as fresh stock of our “Do not throw trash away here” and more
- On our Study Items, we’ve got some high-quality Japanese pencils and new notebooks with silly English on them
- Finally, new and updated items on our Wacky Things from Japan pages include a cool new way to clean your ears, Japanese style, a nifty machine to take length measurements, fresh stock of our popular no-stick rice scoop (with case), more Hello Kitty chopsticks and toilet paper, new onigiri makers, and more!
Well, it’s not the best time to think about flying right now, my my neice is getting married in San Francisco, and my wife and I are off tomorrow to attend the wedding. Like many in America, we’re determined to make sure barbaric acts by people outside our World Society don’t change the way we live or act. While we’re gone, Tomo, Yasu, Kaori and Harumi will make sure things run smoothly.
