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Greetings from J-List November 8, 1999

Peter Payne by Peter Payne
26 years ago
in Your Friend in Japan

It’s a dark, quiet night in Japan as we finish up tonight’s update. If you are in the States, you may not like setting your clock ahead and behind one hour when Daylight Savings Time rolls around, but it’s better than having it get dark at 4:30 every day. I’m off to Tokyo tonight, to stay in my favorite capsule hotel in Shibuya, but first — an update.

Last night’s broadcast brought Chuuyan and Hitomi to Salt Lake City, where a kind Japanese American woman gave them a place to stay and made them onigiri (rice balls) for them to eat while they were hitchhiking — kindness which brought tears to the eyes to the eyes of Chuyan. Then they were off again. Currently, they’re in the New York area (the broadcast is about a week behind their actual position), looking for a way to get across the Atlantic for free. See their progress at http://www.ntv.co.jp/denpa/sekai/index.html (all in Japanese, click on the date links on the left of the screen to call up that day’s broadcast). Email them at [email protected] .

Yesterday was Sunday, so of course my family and I watched the longest running anime show (perhaps the longest running show in history?), Sazae-san. Sazae-san is a classic anime show about a normal Japanese family that has various educational adventures each week — somehow reminiscent of a simpler Japan of the 1960’s and 1970’s. Running for more than 35 years, it’s older than my wife and I. It’s been on channel 8 at 6:30 since time out of mind, and Japanese children know that the weekend has come to an end when the theme song starts.

Tonight’s update is a nice one. We’ve got lots of cool and rare magazines and photobooks and magazines that were out of print before — including 20+ older issues of magazines that had sold out. There are several super-rare items, such as several copies of Fubuki Akira’s photobooks, as well as several other cool items. Look for new magazines on magazine pages 2 and 3, and new photobooks on photobook page 1. Kaori’s added another 6+ in-stock adult videos, including cool titles from Ozawa Madoka and the “Slave Secretary.” There are 15+ JPOP CD singles and albums, including some cool ones by Amuro Namie, My Little Lover, Ribbon and more (remember that our buy-4-get-1-free sale is still on). And there are more Japan-CD ROM items on the CD ROM page.

Some people still had email problems with our list server. If you get multiple copies of this, or have funny line feeds, please let me know and we’ll get it figured out… Thanks.

Well, I’m off to happy, bustling Tokyo — until next time, see you on the web.

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