Greetings from Japan, still a very cold place, although it’s gotten a little warmer in the past few days.
The big news in Japan is the death of Kin-san, one of two twin sisters who are known and loved througout Japan as “Kin-san and Gin-san.” Kin, who was the mother of 11 children during her life, died at the age of 107. Her funeral was today, and the morning wide shows covered the surviving Gin-san, dressed in black, unable to speak out of grief for her sister. The two ancient sisters were twins, born back during the Meiji era, and have been icons of the 1990’s in Japan, appearing on TV and in commercials regularly.
Restaurants that serve kaiten-zushi, or sushi served on a conveyor belt, are feeling the pinch of the ongoing Japanese recession, and owners are fighting back, trying to find ways of capturing more customers. They’re pioneering new ideas, such as providing plastic covers that you lift before you take a dish of sushi off the belt (to counter worries over sanitation), or keeping the fish live in tanks in the restaurant, so the customers can watch as the fish is gutted and sliced fresh right before their eyes. One chain of kaiten-zushi restaurants even operates convenient stores in the same building, allowing customers to sit down and enjoy some sushi while doing their “conbini” shopping.
We’ve got some really nice new items tonight. The new items include:
- The new issue of Urecco, which is a wonderful issue, featuring many of the girls J-List fans want to see
- More stock of the best-selling Immoral Lesson, starring Fubuki Akira, the #2 selling video in J-List’s history (second only to Baby Oil)
- Fresh stock of many of the manga volumes that had sold out in the past, including more copies of “King of Sperm” — see the Hentai Manga page for the new items
- An update to the S&M/Fetish photobook page, with some nice new items for fans of bondage and “cosplay” and women from the “hitozuma, or married women genres
- A great update of special-order adult videos, including Race Queen, Contrary Soap Heaven, let fetish, and more
- For collectors, we’ve got in a great supply of English-language Pokemon cards, that are in stock and ready to go out to you now.
We hope you’re having a warm and pleasant middle of the week. See you on the web!
