Wax n' Sushi

Back in May I wrote a post about mini Humpty Dumpty baseball and hockey cards found in bags of potato chips.
Ryan from Chaos and Kanji sent me an email asking about the availability of them. I said no problem, which ones did he want? He only wanted one of them. Just one. So I mailed it off to him. Easy Peasy.
A few days ago I received an envelope from Japan. Ryan had sent me some cards from Japan.

Although I don't even consider tennis a sport, getting cards of Caroline Wozniacki and Maria Sharapova is always a good thing.

I cleaned my scanner before scanning these.... not like you can tell. I hate foil.

Of course you knew there were going to be Japanese baseball cards.... looks like there's going to be a play at the plate!

Anybody been wondering where Kaz Ishii went?

I also got a couple of Japanese football cards.

Some of you may remember watching Yuji Nakazawa in the 2010 World Cup.....

some of you just may remember chasing after his sticker trying to complete your Panini 2010 World Cup sticker book.

Thanks for the cards Ryan... it's great to see my hobby from a different perspective.

Woot!

Japan is through to the round of 16!!! Thanks in large part to this dude with the funny hair...
Suck it fellow JD's Cards World Cup Contest contestants! The Blue Samurai are unstoppable!

btw, I have my stickers sorted, so if anyone is up for trading, lmk...

Nippon!

There's a World Cup contest going on over at JD's Cards. And I ended up with Japan. *sigh* I'm going to do about as well as I did in his Olympic contest.

But nevermind that. Time to introduce you to these young fellas. At least most of them. I haven't bought any stickers in almost two weeks, so this is all I have.
Keeper Eiji

this guy is all business...

Monsieu Honda. No relation. I checked.

and my favourite of all... love the tuft of hair up top....

Go Japan! Beat Cameroon! Now excuse me as kickoff is in 3 minutes.

Yeah, I know I phoned this one in, but kickoff is in 3 minutes!