Greetings from J-List January 22, 2001

Hello again from Japan, where a condom is also called a “skin.”

Have you ever wondered what all the suffixes on Japanese names mean? Well, I’ll tell you. The most well-known Japanese suffix is -san, and it goes on the last name (sometimes the first name) and works like “Mr” or “Mrs.” It’s a polite term, and places a degree of distance between you and the person you’re speaking to. In Japanese organizations, or in school settings, lowerclassmen would use “-san” when referring to their upperclassmen, or “senpai”; senpai would tend to use “-kun” when referring to students younger than them. In business settings, you treat a company as a person, when it comes to speaking. If I called Million Publishing to check on J-List’s latest magazine order, I’d refer to the person I was talking to as “Million-san.” Two more suffixes are “-chan” and “-kun.” These are “cute” suffixes which are used when talking to children. In my children’s school

For tonight’s update, we’ve got an extra special bunch of new items for you, including:

First, several excellent new magazines for you, including the new Urecco (an excellent issue!), the new Peach Water, and a super all-new erotic magazine, Million Publishing’s Extreme Love (recommended for Hazuki Arisa fans)
We’ve got some great photobooks for you, both new items as well as some great back-in-stock items — Asagi Sumiere’s lovely “Umteen” erotic nude photobook, fresh stock of Miyazawa Rie’s “Santa Fe, and more
Also on the photobooks page, we’ve got great fresh stock of the most popular photobook in recent J-List history, Ohura Anna’s iNude”
We’ve got a bunch of really excellent erotic manga posted to the adult manga pages, including two volumes of the super “Kangofu Rock” series (fantastic erotic nurse manga) and several other great items
We’ve got some copies of Comic Jumbo, the popular large bust manga, on the manga page, too
If you love dojinshi and fan-produced dojin-soft (including CD ROMs of computer images), we’ve posted another volley of a twenty or so all-new dojinshi books — with some very cool items for you
We have two fabulous erotic videos from SOD’s “Deep’s” label — Cosplay Doll Special, a *90 minute* video featuring the best cosplay performances of this great series; and Les Hospital 2, with the super Hazuki Arisa (directed by female AV director Kaori Kobayakawa)
For our DVD customers, see the lovely new 100 minute DVD by Akina Riko — a wonderful production for DVD
Another dynamite item — Deep Kiss Best Selection, a fantastic collection of SOD’s most popular erotic video series, on DVD (region 2)
For fans of the lovely AV idols of the past, we’ve got another great video featuring the pure and angelic Ikegami Misa
For fans of Japan’s lovely Race Queens, see our idols page for a nice photobook
We have some great in-stock issues of Japan’s most interesting magazines, including Kindai (current JPOP scene), JJ (a fantastic Japanese fashion magazine, posted to the Anime -> Anime & JPOP magazines
On the Japanese snacks & food page, we’ve got authentic Japanese wasabi from Japan!
On our Wacky Things from Japan page, we’ve got fresh stock of many cool items, including our our best-selling perfect-bound Japanese notebooks (complete with funny English on them), a “back roller, the plug extender” (handy extension cord for those annoying power bricks), and Japanese warming pads for your shoes
New Wacky Things from Japan items include a cool item for Hello Kitty fans — paper lunch bags, beautiful full-color paper bags with beautiful printing of Kitty-chan on them
Finally, when the Star Wars Special Edition was re-released on video last month, it was re-released on Laserdisc here in Japan. We’ve got this wonderful set of CLV LDs at J-List, a wonderful item for collectors. See it on the DVD page!