update* english books in japan

in my impatience for my books to arrive i checked my shipment status today and discovered the estimated arrival date of 8/1/2005!!! i guess i shouldve paid more attention to all the chinese characters under the book titles. but i cancelled that order and actually found some books that ship in 24hours instead of 9 months. so amazon.co.jp is not as perfect as it first appeared but it`s still a pretty good resource.