Greetings from J-List September 22, 2000

Greetings again from that wackiest of places, Japan.

The movie Schindler’s List was a very touching story. Japan had their own little-known Schindler, a man named Chiune Sugimoto, a Japanese consulate in Estonia who used his special status to grant tens of thousands of travel visas to Jews who were fleeing the coming Nazi terror. Ignoring orders from his home country, he issued visas relentlessly in the months before the Soviets invaded, allowing refugees to travel first to Japan, then onto their final destinations in Canada, the United States and South America. His efforts allowed over 40, 000 people to reach safety.

The Japanese are great innovators, and they’ve really picked up the DVD ball and are running with it. Now Hitachi (whose slogan in Japan is “Inspire the next”) has made the first DVD video camera, a video camera which records onto a DVD-RAM disc. It’s being marketed by star pitcher Matsuzaka Daisuke of the Seibu Lions, the baby of Japan’s baseball league because he’s a good pitcher and he’s got such a cute face. You can see this camera at http://dvd.hitachi.co.jp/ (Japanese site).

We have some very nice new items for you this evening, including:

Several all-new magazines, including two ones that I like a lot, Video Boy and Best Video, which offer great birds-eye views of the entire Japan AV world, and all currently popular AV stars

For photobook fans, we’ve got the wonderful first photobook of one of my favorite idols, Tanaka Rena — on photobook page 1
Also for photobook fans, we have several back-in-stock items, including some really excellent leg fetish books that had sold out before — see these books on the photobooks (page 1) photobooks (leg fetish) pages
We love Japan’s unique hentai manga here at J-List, so we’ve got more manga for you: on manga (new releases) we’ve got several excellent new adult manga, and on manga (best-sellers) you can find fresh stock of some of our most popular books, including the dynamite Innocent Age 1-3 sets
Yaoi fans, we’ve got great new items for you — see the 12+ new yaoi works posted to the yaoi manga & dojinshi page (but remember we have limited stock of each one)
For bishojo game fans, find more copies of the excellent E-Login (the best-selling bishojo game magazine in Japan) on the magazines (hentai) page, and also more copies of Ohno Tetsuya’s “Pussy Cat” hentai artbook
We have fresh stock of some of our most popular adult videos from Soft on Demand, including the very popular Idol Shower “bukkake” theme video series
Also for video fans, we have a dozen or more new items posted to the special order videos (new releases) page — you can browse these great titles and pre-order the ones you want, and we’ll send them to you as soon as they come in
We love those funky reflective Japanese stickers with silly slogans on them. We have a new one that features a picture of a cute car and warns drivers to “drive safely”
There’s a new, longer version of the “plus cord” that lets you bridge bulky power supplies so they don’t take up too much room on your power strip — this one is 1.5 meters long (very handy to have these around your computer setup)
For fans of our unique Japanese gum, a cool new item — Xylets, a delicious sugarless gum bursting with flavor, made with xylident, a new product that fights cavities as you chew. As the package says, Xylets is your teeth friendly, with fresh and juicy flavor.
Finally, autumn is here, which means it’s time for a great new lineup of one of our most popular categories, Glico’s delicious Pocky snacks! Two new flavors of the excellent “Mousse Pocky” have been added to the Pocky & Pretz page, chocolate and white. They’re both delicious, and since they’re incredibly popular in Japan this season, we aren’t sure if we’ll be able to keep them in stock. Check them out!