eBay My World: jack.amano( 144)

An American expat living and working in Japan for nearly a decade.

pop-culture Japanese goods, ghost in the shell, japanese movies, japanese DVDs, anime, manga, figures, ebooks, comics, Hello Kitty, ASK ;)

English, Japanese

PayPal and International/Domestic money orders in US Dollars only.

Japan is an expensive country. Period. It's unfortunate that is it, but that's the way things are. I do my best to offer as many shipping choices as possible, depending on the item. The shipping prices you see listed in my auctions are not padded. They are the price it costs me to ship. If you have an honest concern about shipping from Japan, you can easily research the Japan Post website (in English) for their shipping rates. It is the same exact site I use when determining pricing. Thank you for understanding.

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Hello, my moniker is Jack Amano, it's a play on the Japanese phrase, Ama No Jaku (天邪鬼) which roughly translates as: someone who does the opposite of what you expect. Japanese culture is about expectations of duty and normality for the better good of the overall group of which a person is a part -- to call someone Ama No Jaku can be both playful and mean depending on the situation. On eBay, it's nothing more than a clever moniker for fun; the last name Amano (天野) is common enough in Japan, so I simply stuck Jack in front of it, to reflect both my playful and American sides.

Feel free to contact me through my email address with questions about auctions or Japan. Also, if you would like to learn about what it's really like to live in Japan, check out my blog: The Moped Ronin @ http://mopedronin.tumblr.com. It's work-friendly, though it doesn't pull any punches. I don't believe Japan to be a haven of complete goodness where nothing ever goes wrong, so I try to put everything into a framework of: humanity at work. We are all just human after all, for better or worse.