# Japanese Dopers! (and others who just feel helpful) I need suggestions!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 18, 2002, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-dopers-and-others-who-just-feel-helpful-i-need-suggestions/137288 "2002-11-18T08:00:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![ratty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ccd318/32.png) [@ratty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratty)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-dopers-and-others-who-just-feel-helpful-i-need-suggestions/137288/1 "2002-11-18T08:00:34Z")

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I’m calling on you guys for some Christmas gift suggestions. I have a good friend who lives in Japan with whom I periodically exchange wacky stuff. She sends me crazy Japanese stuff, like Hello Kitty vibrators and Domo-kun calendars, and these awesome hard candies called kuro ame. I send her crazy American stuff like Skippy peanut butter and Jesus figurines. Christmas is coming, and I really want to surprise her with some crazy US stuff that you can’t get in Japan, so she can be the envy of everyone on her block. 😛 (The ‘Jesus playing sports with small children figurines’ were a massive success.) So what wacky hard-to-get American things are popular in Japan right now? It’s so difficult, because we have so much of the same stuff in both countries, and I can’t ask her what she wants because it’s supposed to be a surprise. So does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![CRorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CRorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CRorex)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-dopers-and-others-who-just-feel-helpful-i-need-suggestions/137288/2 "2002-11-18T17:30:28Z")

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You’re never going to top those jesus figurines.

Althought, I’d check out [dispair.com](http://dispair.com)’s ‘demotivators’.

I suggest insanity for one.  
FYI: Demotivators are those inspirational posters with horrible soul crushing slogans under them.

I LOVE them!