Greetings from J-List March 28, 2000

Hello again from Japan, home of the American Dog (someone must have thought a Corn Dog would sell better with this name).

Grand Master Takatoriki has won the latest sumo tournament, taking the sumo world utterly by surprise. A less well-known rikishi, he’s been wrestling for 18 years, and has never won a tournament in his life. In a TV interview, he broke the normal rules sumo wrestlers have against showing emotion openly by crying tears of joy over winning. In other sumo news, Wakanohana, one of the most famous of all the current crop of wrestlers, announced his retirement due to poor emotional and physical health. Wakanohana and his younger brother, Takanohana, are well known and popular in the sumo world. Both achieved the rank of Grand Master (Yokozuna)

My wife and son are in the U.S., enjoying a much-deserved dose of American culture — everything they can’t get here in rural Japan, from Starbucks to Taco Bell to good old American shopping malls. We all like living in Japan of course, but there’s nothing like going to California and speeding down the wide, straight freeways, eating Hawaiian-style shave ice on the beach in Mission Bay… Since we both can’t leave J-List along, we take turns, taking one kid at a time to make sure they get enough exposure to their “other” country, America. With my wife gone, I’m free to putter around (only married men know the fun of “puttering around”)

Tonight’s update features some good new items, including:

A fistful of new magazines, including several excellent rare and “one shot” items, on all magazine pages (but most of the new single-issues are on page 2)
The new “Aishite ageru” (I’ll Love You), a nice “wet”-themed magazine from Million Publishing
Several lovely new photobooks, including some excellent leg, skirt and high-heel shoe fetish items
And on the gouka-bon page, several nice new S&M-themed all-color photobooks
For dojinshi fan types, more copies of the popular “Effecter” and “Limit Break” dojinshi
New hentai “wide” manga on the manga pages, and lower prices for all our stock of the excellent Colorful Moon & Electric Fighting Daughters manga series
New adult videos in-stock, including some rare one-shot videos (see pages 1 and 4 for the new items)
For our idol video fans, we’ve got a rare Kahala Tomomi gravure video, and a lovely new Race Queen offering from Pony Canyon (on the idol page)
New JPOP “maxi-singles” (long-playing singles with several tracks), including new CDs by Suzuki Ami, Hide, and more
Finally, for that young Pokemon fan with a birthday coming up, some new Pikachu children’s puzzles (on the cards & puzzles page)