Japanese DS games usually sell for around 4000 -ish yen over in Japan anyway, which is pretty much the equivelant of 40-45 dollars, so the mark-up for importing a game isn't all that much. You're pretty much paying the same price.
Hah, the Japanese supermarket near where I live sells Famitsu for like five dollars an issue.
And yeah, they usually have a cute girl on the cover, but other than that, there's not much in Famitsu that you couldn't get from reading EGM or Edge, even if you can read the Japanese.
It has to work well, considering what Japanese people eat-- Have you ever seen your crap after you eat sushi? That soft, soggy crap (literally) gets everywhere. The water jets in their bidets must be tsunami-strong.
And don't they use those toilets that you have to squat over rather than...