Hello from J-List, safely back in Japan this time. It was a pretty routine hop across the Pacific, this time taking Malaysian Airlines, instead of Korean (no more spoons for my KAL silverware collection).
Part of my “Unified Theory of Japan” is that anything that can be different between the West and Japan, will be different. Take companies, for example. For the most part, companies in America do one thing, and don’t stray too far from their core business. Apple sells computers, but they don’t sell consumer electronics. Goodyear makes tires, but they don’t sell auto insurance. In Japan, this is not the case at all, and companies can be found in a wide variety of businesses. Japan Tobacco, the huge tobacco company that was directly operated by the Japanese government before it was privatized a decade ago
We seem to be having a streak of bad luck here at J-List. In July, Kaori’s Nissan Cube was hit by an elderly man, causing $4000 worth of damage. Two weeks ago a man rear-ended my wife in our Saturn, causing minor whiplash and doing some damage to the car bumper. And last night, Tomo’s Honda Civic was also rear-ended (the color term for this in Japanese is “Okama-horu” which means “screwed in the ass by a homosexual” by the way). Poor Tomo took the day off today to see a doctor and talk to his insurance company. Since this is my wife’s “yaku-doshi” (unlucky year) according to the Chinese sexagenary system, we think maybe her bad lucky is making its way through the company.
For our first post-vacation update, we’ve got some nice items for you, including:
- First, the new issue of the very popular Aishite ageru (“I’ll love you”), the magazine that features “pheromone onesan gals who hunt for male virgins” (and other stuff)
- Several excellent photobooks, including more copies of the previously sold-out “Bishojo Photo Gallery” series books “Light Value” “Daydream” and “Honeydew”
- Also for photobook fans, fresh stock of several popular leg and mini-skirt fetish books
- On the high-end S&M photobook and MPEG & CD ROM pages (under the DVD category), a new “medical fetish” item. You can be a gynecologist, too (features video CD)
- Also on the MPEG & CD ROM page, two very cool past issues of the highly cool MPEG Soft Catalog, which gives you two full VCDs of great sampler AV and a color magazine for a very low price
- We have several excellent new erotic manga volumes from Japan, including the excellent three-volume Victory Wave manga by Ataka Atsushi, and several other great manga for you
- We’ve got fresh stock of the excellent erotic game art book, Hiyoko Voice, filled with excellent erotic imagery
- For dojinshi fans, fresh stock of the popular English dojinshi Under the Influence (Gunsmith Cats, Gunbuster, and more)
- For DVD fans, we have fresh stock of some of our most popular “gallery” and compilation DVD titles including Kano Mizuho and Yoshino Sally
- For anime fans, we’ve got several cool items, including a great “anime strap” for your keys, camera or portible phone, featuring Sailor Moon, Mars and Mercury
- Robot pets seem to be all the rage this Christmas, and we’ve got some cool ones from Japan, with fresh stock of our best-selling T-Cat 2000, on the Anime Toys page
- On our Wacky Things from Japan page, we’ve got fresh stock of Japanese Calgary supplies, including solid and liquid ink
- Also on our Wacky Things page, the ultimate aloe bath powder to give your bath the classical scent of Japanese aloe, more Q-tips with cotton rings around them (for extra comfort), and more
- Finally, on our Japanese Snacks pages, fresh stock of several popular gum and snack items, as well as fresh stock of the sold-out Japanese “persimmon seed” spicy rice crackers — mm, mm, good.
That’s all, see you on the web!
