Hello and Happy Monday from Japan, where screwdrivers come in “plus” and “minus.”
Whenever I go to the U.S., I stock up on all the comforts of home: Pop Tarts, Cocoa Puffs, exotic herbal teas, salsa, you name it. Japan is a great place, but nothing ever supplants your home. I think that living away from your home country is a wonderful way to appreciate the little things that everyone else at home takes for granted, and whenever possible, I advise young people to experience life abroad for a year or more in their teens or twenties. When you visit a country for a week or two, you see a lot of the people and places
When learning any language, it’s fun to compare what’s similar and what’s different compared with your native language. In Japanese, the names of the fingers are cute. They are, the pointing-at-people finger (hitosashi-yubi, the forefinger), the middle finger (naka-yubi), the medicine finger (kusuru-yubi or ring finger), the little finger (ko-yubi), the the parent finger (oya-yubi, or the thumb). In case any of these comes up in Trivial Pursuit.
For this evening’s update, we’ve got some great items for you, including:
- First, the excellent new issue of Urecco, the wonderful magazine filled with lovely Japanese women
- For photobook fans, we’ve got several all-new titles in, including limited stock of Tani Risa’s beautiful My First Heart
- J-List has the best selection of Japan’s unique leg, mini-skirt and “panty stocking” fetish photobooks, and we’ve got fresh stock of several new items, including “Legend of Stairs – Peeping Inside of Mini-Skirt”
- For more refined fetish tastes, we’ve got a nice color photobook for fans of “medical fetish” images, entitled “Medical Accident File”
- Manga fans will enjoy the all-new titles posted today, including books by Tsukasa Comics, Mujin Comics and our #1 favorite, Hit Comics
- We’ve got another excellent “sperm fetish” video from the fine folks at Soft on Demand, the new Sperm Angel, featuring the lovely Wakabayashi Juri
- Also very cool, a super DVD featuring the erotic performance of the lovely and busty Japanese AV idol, Yamasaki Akari
- For fans of “dojin-soft, the fan-created CG images and more, we’ve got a volley of new items on the dojinshi page
- One of the least known but coolest robot anime shows of the 80’s was Aura Battler Dunbine, a show that’s enjoying quite a comeback in Japan today. We’ve got two very rare robots from this cool show on the Anime Toys page
- One of the most popular categories in our Wacky things from Japan” pages are our wooden signs with wacky Japanese messages on them. We’ve got several more posted!
- Also on the Wacky Things from Japan pages, several cool new items, including stylish bamboo forks (great for when you have guests over and want to impress them with your Japanese stuff) and a new non-stick rice scoop, with matching holder (just stick it on the side of your rice cooker)!
Well, I’m off to Tokyo now for another night in a Japanese capsule hotel. Arrrgh!!
