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Yotsubato! Comic 2
The 2nd volume in Azuma Kiyohiko's brilliant work of "slice of life" child's-eye view manga is here. Yotsuba is the wide-eyed and naive protagonist, the little girl for whom everything is exciting and new, surrounded by a cast of...
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Kanji Entry Pen for Elementary School
The brand Magic Ink has a long history in Japan, and everyone is familiar with these versatile markers. The magic lies in this marker's ability to write on anything -- plastic, glass, metal, wood -- and especially paper, leaving...
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KURU-TOGA ~ Automatic Spinning Mechanical Pencil for Super Smooth Writing
The folks at Mitsubishi Japan don't just make cars... here's a revolutionary mechanical pencil that works to ensure smooth writing every time. This is a 0.5 mm point pencil that utilizes the Kuro-Toga engine, which spins the lead...
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Comic Coro Coro Reserve Subscription
By popular request, J-List is proud to offer one of the most popular comic & presents manga, Comic Coro Coro. This super-thick (over *800* pages!) manga is great not just because of the regular installments of Pokemon, Doraemon...
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Hiragana Times Reserve Subscription
Hiragana Times is the premiere magazine for students of Japanese and anyone who wants to follow Japan every month. Each issue features articles both in English and in Japanese (complete with furigana pronunciation) to help those...
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Japanese Custom Made Stamp ~ Square 0.5 inch Hanko
In Japan, hanko (name stamps) are used in lieu of signing your name as the way of signifying agreement, and the culture of these stamps has always been fascinating to gaijin unfamiliar with Japanese ways. Now you can get any...
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Yotsubato! Comic 8
By customer request, we've gotten in stock of the popular Yotsubato! (sometimes written Yotsuba& or With Yotsuba), the incredibly popular manga from Kiyohiko Azuma and Dengeki Comics. Each volume follows the story of the...
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Young Ace May 2013
It's time for another fresh volume of Young Ace, Kadokawa's vivid monthly manga serial packed with dozens of popular titles in easily readable format, with furigana kanji readings throughout! It's a great magazine not only...
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Zebra Red "Check Set" ~ Best for Memory Retention
There's a reason why the Japanese consistently students are able to score among the world's best students: they have excellent study techniques, and are good at rote memorization. Here's a super item for all students who want to...
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Japonica Kanji Japanese Practice Notebook(100 squares)
The way to learn to write Japanese is to write -- repeatedly -- until you get it. Here is a wonderful Japanese notebook that offers a great way to practice writing Japanese -- either hiragana , katakana or kanji. Each page...
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Black Lacquer Shaft Ear Cleaner with Origami Happy Bird
Mimikaki are the traditional ear cleaners of Japan, a personal healthcare tool with a scoop-like end used for getting the wax out of ones ears. There's a large variety of mimikaki in use and available in Japan, with everything...
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Dengeki Daioh Reserve subscription
One of the most long-lived and successful manga magazines of the past decade, Dengeki Daioh has thrived since the " moe boom", rising to prominence with some of the best titles of any of the monthly manga magazines we carry. Now...
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Genki 2 (Second Edition) Textbook ~ An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese 2 Textbook
The Genki Japanese textbooks series is the most successful Japanese study textbook series in the world because it gives the best results, and with the new second edition, the series is even better! This is the Genki II Second...
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In Case of Emergency, Commit Seppuku Here (T-Shirt)
Ancient samurai were famous for committing ritual suicide by disemboweling themelves with their swords, which was called seppuku or harakiri (two ways to read the same kanji characters). Our latest J-List T-shirt features a wacky...
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Yotsubato! Comic 9
By customer request, we've gotten in stock of the popular Yotsubato! (sometimes written Yotsuba& or With Yotsuba), the incredibly popular manga from Kiyohiko Azuma and Dengeki Comics. Each volume follows the story of the...
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Zebra Green "Check Set" ~ Best for Memory Retention
There's a reason why the Japanese consistently students are able to score among the world's best students: they have excellent study techniques, and are good at rote memorization. Here's a super item for all students who want to...
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Campus Notebook with Special "Dot" Guide ~30 Sheets
Japanese notebooks are the best in the world, and J-List sells a ton of them. Here's a unique notebook designed by a Tokyo University Student that features dots on the lines (dot grid notebook). These are great for using as a...
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Certain Victory ~ Hisshou Large Hachimaki
Headbands, or hachimaki as they are known here in Japan, are famous for carrying great slogans. They were a big deal with everyone from kamikaze pilots to student ralliers in the sixties and still today with students studying to...
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Yubisashi mini ~ Japan (Tabi no Yubisashi Kaiwacho)
A useful travel book for someone coming to Japan, this is a great yubi-sashi (lit. "finger-pointing") book that you can use to travel, go shopping, visit tourist areas, greet people and make friends, and generally have a great...
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Ichinichi 15 Fun no kanji Renshu (Jou) ~ Fifteen Minutes a Day Kanji Practice (Volume One)
Beginning kanji study needn't be difficult -- this new series by Alc (who also produce the only monthly magazine for Japanese language study directed at students, the Nihongo Journal) allows us to master the essentials of kanji...
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Basic Kanji Drill New -- 1st Grade
For students of Japanese who want another way to increase their kanji skills, or for those who just want a good way to practice, here is a kanji workbook to get you up to speed starting from the Japanese first grade school level...
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Ninja Hachimaki -- Japan Ninja Headband
The Japanese have long worn hachimaki kanji headbands to show their determination and spirit, whether it's passing a difficult entrance exam for a university or bombing Pearl Harbor. This awesome headband shows the kanji...
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"Certain Victory" Pencil Board ~ Hisshou
This is a cool pencil board, used to keep what you're writing in a notebook from being impressed on the page below, called shitajiki in Japanese. They're very handy to have around and also improve your penmanship as you write...
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Japanese Custom Made Stamp set ~ Circle 0.7 inch DX Hanko
In Japan, hanko (name stamps) are used in lieu of signing your name as the way of signifying agreement, and the culture of these stamps has always been fascinating to gaijin unfamiliar with Japanese ways. Now you can get any...
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Blue Hana-Yuzen Chopsticks & Case Set
Here's a really nice set of chopsticks that are very traditionally Japanese. The chopsticks themselves are plastic, an extra long adult length chopsticks are extremely easy to hold and use. They also have rough patches at the...
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Shinsengumi Lantern Strap
Take home with you a part of Japanese tradition and history. This lantern has written the words "Shinsengumi" in Kanji, known as the samurai "police" for the shogun who suppressed any who opposed the will of the shogun. It...
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Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai + (Plus) vol. 2
Here's a fun official "side story" manga called I Have Few Friends Plus, featuring an original story written Yomi Hirasaka (the original writer of the novels), featuring all your favorite characters, including Kodama, Yozora...
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I Have Few Friends 6 ~ Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai 6
Based on the light novels by Hirasaka Yomi and Buriki, Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai ("I Don't Have Many Friends") tells the story of Hasegawa Kodaka, a newly transferred student who arrives at his new school and has trouble...
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Oreimo Middle School English Study ~ Yarinaosu Chugaku Eigo
Learn Japanese through this bilingual study aid featuring the characters from Oreimo. In this study guide, fully named Ore no Imouto Ga Konnani Kawaii Wakeganai to Yarinaosu Chugaku Eigo , you will learn all the basics of English...
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I Have Few Friends 7 ~ Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai 7
Based on the light novels by Hirasaka Yomi and Buriki, Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai ("I Don't Have Many Friends") tells the story of Hasegawa Kodaka, a newly transferred student who arrives at his new school and has trouble...
$8.00