Hello from J-List, now officially banned in all Santa Cruz city facilities and Saudi Arabia!
One interesting aspect of the Japanese people is their developed sense of humility. If you’ve ever complimented a Japanese person and had them deny the compliment (most likely with an accompanying gesture of waving their hand back and forth in front of their face, meaning “no”), you’ve run into the Japanese habit of “kenson” or humility. It shows itself in many forms, but one of the most odd and interesting is when a Japanese person gives someone else a gift. They’ll often say “This is an uninteresting gift, or if it’s food, they’ll say, I’m not sure if this is delicious or not.” I remember the first time I was complimented on my Japanese. I was happy, and thanked the person, but I should have disagreed with them.
If you’ve ever been to Japan and used a toilet here — either a Western one or a Japanese-style “no seat” toilet (which is a shock to use for the first time), you may have noticed the Chinese characters for “small and “big” which are and respectively. The toilet handle moves two ways: if you’ve done just a little “number one, turn the handle towards small” and hold it for a few seconds while the water flows. If you’ve done the other thing, push the handle towards “big” for a full flush. It took me a few months of living in Japan to figure out that these characters stood for the words for “number one” (shoben, or “little toilet”) and “number two” (daiben, or “big toilet”). Another mystery solved.
For this evening’s update, we’ve got some very special items for you, including:
- First, to help you help us move our remaining stock of excellent 2001 Japanese calendars, we’ve done two things: one, made one final round of price cuts, dropping the prices on all remaining in-stock calendars; and two, we’ve taken digital shots of the insides of all remaining calendars, so you can see a little better how good the inside photos are — so please check out our dwindling stock of calendars, as they are going fast!
- We have many excellent new magazines on the J-List site, including the excellent new Sennin Giri (kogal erotica) and “Go! Go! Delivery Busty Girls” (love that English)
- For hentai lovers, we’ve got several items for you, including the new Bug Bug (very nice!) and the excellent current issue of Kairakuten, the wonderful erotic manga magazine
- For our photobook customers, we’ve got several new items, as well as fresh stock of several of the “Bishojo Nude Photo Gallery” series photobooks that have such high quality photos inside
- For our leg fetish customers, the Day and Night Lives of the Rich Girl OLs (gotta love that)
- Speaking of manga, we’ve got a wonderful new volume in by the highly talented and stylized artist Doman Seiman, by our favorite adult manga publisher, Hit Comics
- Yaoi fans should check out Dear Plus, a super 500+ page yaoi manga anthology for fans of “boy’s secret love”
- For Japan’s erotic adult video fans, we’ve got the Distinguished Private Girls’ School of Adult Video, a super offering with nine lovely cosplay lovelies playing out an erotic fantasy — on the videos (new releases) page
- Also new, we’ve got a super new “tekoki” (hand job) video in from Soft on Demand, featuring seven lovely nurses in the “Tekoki Clinic”
oFor Japan’s erotic DVD fans, a super item — a 110 minute anthology of the best moments in the “Give Up Human Being” erotic series, featuring Kano Mizuho, Miura Aika, Yazawa Yoko, Komuro Yuri and Wakana Sena! On the DVD Main page
- For those looking for beautiful Japanese girls, make your message seen with our latest wacky Japanese sticker — on our Stickers & Signs page
- We’ve got several new items on our Wacky Things from Japan page, including a super new version of our popular Buddhist Beads, which are useful as cool jewelry, too!
- Finally, a super cool new item — Lotte’s delicious Japanese “umeboshi” flavored gum, with the tart and tasty zest of pickled plum. It’s a delicious and uniquely Japanese taste, available now on J-List’s snacks and gum pages!
Kaori is taking the day off to go to “Nezumi Land” tomorrow. This is a joke in Japanese — “nezumi” means “mouse” or “rat, and Disneyland is home to the most famous mouse in the world, ergo the nickname for Tokyo Disneyland. We hope she has a fun date with her boyfriend.
