Getting Back into Baseball Cards....in Japan

  I made a bit of a fuss on here in April when the first Series of Calbee cards/potato chips failed to materialize on store shelves on sched...

  Some neat 1951 Osato Gangu set stuff recently sold on Yahoo Auctions and has sparked my curiousity. The set (which Engel catalogues as JGA...

In addition to my giant 1977 Yamakatsu boxes , I also recently picked up a partial box of 1978 Yamakatsu cards. I actually completed the 197...

  I've picked up a few more Isao Harimoto menko cards recently.  I'm a big Harimoto fan, for reasons I outlined in this post here so...

  Another interesting recent pick up (from my guy in Hiroshima with the shampoo from the 70s ) is this two card menko panel, featuring Hanky...

Yesterday the writer of this blog made the foolish mistake of trying to carry some 1977 Yamakatsu Premium cards unassisted. He is survived b...

  I picked up three cards from one of the many oddball sets from the 60s the other day - the 1960 JBR 230 set ( referred to as "Toshiba...