Hello again from J-List
Breakfast cereal is one of the major staple foods in the U.S., and it’s slowly growing in popularity here in Japan, too. It was slow going, though — Japanese consumers preferred Japanese food, like fish, miso soup and natto (fermented soybeans), to what looked to them like “bird seed.” Now, several brands of cereal compete for share the Japanese cereal market, lead by Kellogg’s, who markets Corn Flake, Corn Frosty, Choko-wa (chocolate loops), and All-Bran. Unfortunately, Kellogg’s products are very expensive here — about $4 for a box that contains only 2-3 American-sized bowls of cereal, so I usually choose Ciscorn or Calbee’s cereal products. Amazingly, Japan is a huge consumer of rice, but no one sells Rice Crispies or a copycat product here.
Japanese is an interesting language grammatically. In Japanese, you have various “particles” which you use to mark words — a subject particle, an object particle, and so on. Related to this are the many Japanese “counters” you use to count things. There are hundreds of these counters, each used with different kinds of objects. To count thin, flat objects like cards or sheets of paper, you use “mai” (e.g. ichi mai, ni mai, san mai). To count long, cylindrical objects like an umbrella, you use “hon” (ippon, ni hon). There are special counters for birds (wa), small animals like dogs (hiki), larger animals like cows (tou), and so on — similar to words like “gaggle” “herd” and “flock” in English, but extended to virtually all countable nouns. It’s quite fun to try to learn them all.
Japan had a large quake on Saturday which destroyed thousands of homes and left several dead around Hiroshima and Ehime Prefecture, on the smallest Japanese island of Shikoku. J-List is about 1500 km from Hiroshima, so we were quite far from the damage — I didn’t even know about the quake until I read it in the Daily Yomiuri. It was a terrible tragedy, but we’re glad there wasn’t more loss of life.
We had some server problems on Saturday, Japan time, which resulted in the shopping cart not adding items that were added to the cart properly. We are very sorry for for the inconvenience. The site is working fine now, and we think the problem are over, but if you have any problems with the J-List cart, you can order via our secure email form at https://rook.axnet.net/pages/virtual/jlist/orderjlist_secure.html . Currently, most of the larger images have been removed from the server to keep he drive from filling up while we move servers, so please use “thumbnail view” when browsing the J-List site.
For the new update, we’ve added some excellent items for you, including
First, some excellent adult magazines from Japan, including the stellar new issues of Penthouse Japan and Penthouse Special, a super new Gal’s Dee for fans of busty Japanese girls, and the very erotic amateur magazine High-Teen Nessha Boy
For photobook fans, we have A5 format color photobook of the popular CD-ROM series Yellows 2.0, Yellows 3.0 ~ China and Yellows 1.0 ~ Americans, which are mostly out of print
Als for photobook lovers, a special item: From the Bathroom with Love, which contains fabulous nude shots of Japan’s most famous AV gals, but also pictures of their own homes with maps to their homes — features virtually every popular AV girl in Japan today
For bondage and discipline lovers, an interesting magazine + dual Video CD sampler item with footage from Brain Trust and others
We have two excellent new dojinshi in stock for you: the very sexy 12 Kaiten, an exploration in Japanese “waitress fetishism,” and Energya’s fabulous new collection of hentai Sailor Moon
We’ve got a bunch of excellent erotic manga that have been posted, with many new all-new volumes, including books from IC, Do and Oak Comix — also a super new issue of Electric Fighting Daughters, the “game girl” hentai parody dojinshi anthology manga
Also for manga fans, we have fresh stock of the truly excellent Paradise Lost erotic dojinshi anthologies from Fusion Product
For DVD lovers, another excellent re-issue DVD for fans of classic gals — Ozawa madoka’s sexy “18 Dreams”
Also for DVD fans, we’ve posted the Masterpiece of SOD collection DVD, which features killer samples from 64 titles released between May and August of 2000
If you love the pure and virginal Minori Aoi, check out her “Lucky Creamy Girl” video offering, from the famous Uchu Kikaku, on our video pages
From Soft on Demand’s Deep’s label, an excellent compilation video featuring 120 minutes of their excellent tekoki, cosplay and other video works
For fans of Takara’s very lovely Licca-chan doll series, we’ve got a cool set of keychains featuring Licca dressed for a summer festival — Asakura Licca-chan — on the anime & toys page
We’ve got fresh stock of one of my favorite foods from Japan, konnyaku jelly, on the Japanese snacks and food page. Konnyaku is a vegetable-based food that is very solid and firm, and is used as a diet food here because it fills you up while providing very few calories. Check out our konnyaku jelly items before we sell out again
Also on the snacks page, a delicious new twist on furikake: kimchee flavor (yum)
We’ve got several very cute things for you for the Wacky Things from Japan (cute stuff) page, including two new Hello Kitty chopsticks, and a really nice set of Kitty-chan bags of different sizes — great for giving gifts or eating your lunch
We’ve got two sets of lovely collectible cards for you — for lovely idol fans, the deluxe and very popular swimsuit and high school uniform cards of Nagai Luna, and for anime fans, the excellent Love hina trading card series
For our T-shirt fans, we’ve got a few leftover “I’m a virgin killer” Japanese kanji T-shirts
For our Wacky Things from Japan customers, some really cool new items, including traditional bamboo ear cleaners (they feel so good!), more extra-long cooking chopsticks from japan, origami paper for kids, a bamboo mat that has many uses, and the “ultimate” slly container for your desk!
