I thought Jap imports are the bees knees???

Might be - I've never bought an entire container from Japan. I have imported LCL, and they were not as good as the majority of games I've bought from Germany. Having said that, the last two containers from Germany were by far the best I've seen. The last German import was 50% from a spotter of mine, and those games were the best I've ever seen. Literally "From a private collection in Germany" - now you know where that saying comes from !

I purchased an EM/SS container from another country which had some absolutely mint games.

There are still many good games out there, the prices have gone up which has slowed things down a bit. I was recently offered a container from Japan, but it looked like they were all from the gamesroom of the nuclear plant that had the tsunami disaster.