Hello and greetings from Japan, on this quiet Friday evening.
There are many interesting things you notice about the Japanese when you live in Japan — all highly subjective, of course. They tend to not eat bread crusts, for one thing, and in fact, Japanese bread is sold in supermarkets without the heels — which might explain why Japanese women are seemingly all constipated. Japanese people never drink root beer, but most can drink Dr. Pepper. Japanese who try Mexican refried beans usually don’t like them, because they’re not sweet as Japanese beans are — but if they live overseas for a year or more, they usually come around. And for some reason, all Japanese girls’ shoe sizes seem to be either 23 or 23.5 centimeters.
Money is another interesting issue. Discussing money is quite a delicate thing, and the subject is always wrapped in layers of Japanese politeness and “keigo” (polite language) when it is brought up. It’s not always necessary to talk money directly though. As an English teacher, I’ve accepted jobs without even mentioning money at all — and when my pay envelope came, I trusted that it would be sufficient. Similarly, I’ve hired Japanese artists to do work without bringing up payment. In situations like this, of course, there’s a lot of trust on both sides, and neither would want to hurt that trust by taking advantage of the situation. It’s all part of living in Japan.
We’re just a little big happier, thanks to the opening of our very own freeway. The North Kanto Jidoushado is a freeway that branches off of the Kanto Expressway, allowing us to drive quickly to nearby Maebashi and Takasaki, and take the freeway all the way to Tokyo if we want. In Japan, where city driving is far more common then freeway driving, it takes hours to get anywhere — a big difference from San Diego, I can tell you. Now we have a little more freedom to go places on the weekends in our Bongo Friendee. Of course, Japanese freeways aren’t “free” at all — if they were, people would use them too much, and they’d be clogged with cars all the time. To go to Takasaki the toll is about $6; to go all the way to Tokyo, it’s around $30.
The “top 5” for the past week has been updated, too.
For the weekend’s update, we’ve got an extra special update for you, including:
- First, some killer and rare magazines from Japan, including Cho Very Good!! (kogals doing bad things), Mecha ike! Hot Breast Girls (very nice amateur magazine), and more
- We have some very nice all-new photobooks for you, including Yanagi Asuka’s very sexy hardcover photobook, fresh stock of several popular items, and more!
- If you like Japanese leg fetish books, we’ve got fresh stock of several items on the leg & stocking fetish photobook page
- For fans of Japanese amateur “indies” AV, we have a great new issue of MPEG Indies, featuring two super Video CDs filled with great amateur sex, as well as a full color magazine!
- In addition to several all-new volumes of excellent erotic manga from Japan, we’ve posted a very special item: the complete set of Furita ni Omakase, the masterful erotic manga about Sayuri and Jun, two policewomen who always managed to get into some bizarre sexual situations (the manga is on order with the publisher, please order your copies to ensure you can get your set)
- We have some very nice one-shot erotic dojinshi for you, posted to the dojinshi page — check these out quickly, before they disappear
- For fans of busty Japanese AV actresses, we’ve got a super new video in the “Menu” (lit. “woman’s breast”) series. This super video features and busty and delicious Kitahara Erika in a great sexual performance for you
- For fans of the bold, refreshing Soft on Demand, we’ve got not one, but two new videos in their popular All Nude Challenger series, in which 108 lovely nude Japanese girls participate in wacky and bizarre nude sports to get money — very cool!
- Also for Japan AV lovers — a huge volley of sale and discount items, posted on the Videos (discount) page, all with *free shipping*
- For erotic DVD fans, we’ve got a super item — a new 120 minute sexual performance featuring the hopelessly “kawaii” Hijiri Sayaka, a fresh, lovely Japanese AV performer
- Lovers of Japan’s elegant and sexy Race Queens should check out the DVD and Idol pages, for two wonderful Race Queen DVDs by Pony Canyon
- We have fresh stock of several of our unique Japanese snack & food items, including sake candy (with real sake!) and Sakura Drops, the delicious hard candy that comes in an old-style tin, and boasts over 100 years of history
- Also on the snacks & food page, two new flavors of our surprisingly popular Japanese furikake
- For fans of beautiful things from Japan, we’ve posted a very cute Hello Kitty puzzle, along with a fantastic deluxe puzzle featuring a gold reproduction of Haruyo Morita’s “Oboro-zuki”
- Finally, we’ve got fresh stock of some cool things from Japan for you, on our Wacky pages — including the ultimate way to squeeze all the tooth paste out of your
J-List sells the finest selection of Wacky Things from Japan that we know of — and it’s not hard finding new things to sell, since Japan is such a Wacky place. We have it all — everything from Japanese notebooks with funny English on them to clamps for your futon to Hello Kitty toilet paper to rice scoops to handy things for your bath and laundry. We enjoy selling some of these things because it allows you to touch a little piece of Japan. Since most of the items on our Wacky Things from Japan pages are extremely affordable — from $2 — we hope you’ll check out our stock regularly. We also can’t help thinking that many of the bizarre things we’re able to bring you from Japan would make perfect gifts for the Japanophile in your life ^_^
