Greetings from Japan, the home of “soft cream” and “Pal Sweet Diet.”
Racism and bias are always bad things, and with population of foreigners in Japan rising — the official number of registered foreigners is about 1% of the country, which means that the actual number is higher, counting foreigners who are not registered — that can put pressure on a country. Recently, in Gunma, a man who accidentally killed an acquaintance while wrestling with him tried to blame the crime on foreigners, saying that they were attacked by a gang of Iranians. And in Hamamatsu, near Mt. Fuji, a Brazilian woman was denied entry into a Japanese-owned jewelry store because of her nationality (if she’d been from America or Europe, she’d have been welcome, but she was from Brazil). She sued and won.
On the other hand, sometimes we foreigners deserve some of the bad reputation we get. For example, a certain Korean coin with a very low value passes as a 500 yen coin (worth about $5) if holes are drilled in it. In many old vending machines, you can put in one of these counterfeit coins and get out a 500 yen coin. Theft using altered Korean coins has become a social problem throughout all of Japan, and nearly everywhere you go vending machines have the 500 yen slot disabled. Some years ago, counterfeit telephone cards with metal strips that could foil public phones were all the rage among foreigners and younger Japanese, allowing people to cheat NTT and make free phone calls. To buy the cards, you only needed to go to Ueno Park and find any Iranian — I must admit to having bought a few myself. Most foreigners here are law-abiding, tax-paying members of Japanese society, but the ones that aren’t ruin it for the group at large.
We’ve got a very special update for you tonight. First of all, we’re extremely happy announce that JAST USA is bringing you the excellent Viper M1 hentai simulation game, by Hobibox Europe and Sogna. A positively wonderful game, with full motion animation, beautiful characters and three great hentai stories, the Viper M1 is one of the most requested games ever — and now it’s available in English and Italian!
Viper M1 is one of the best hentai games ever to be bought out in English. To “sweeten the pot” for hentai game fans, we’ve included the new title in our J-List “Threepack” special — so you can get any three English games, including Viper M1, shipped to you for just $105 (or $120 outside of US/Canada). See this title on Hentai Games Page 1.
Oh, and one more item — by customer request, the widescreen Laserdisc of Star Wars Episode 1, the only digital version of the excellent movie that will be released — but only in international markets, not in the U.S.! Since we received several requests to carry this item, we’ve made the Japanese version of Episode 1 available to J-List customers for pre-order. It comes out April 7, but order your copy soon to make sure it’s available.
