As a little girl I can remember wanting to be a Japanese Mommy. I would watch old Japanese movies and dream about going to their country to be a Mommy. The truth was that I never could because as a little girl I didn't know how to talk to people, couldn't write or read English and had the shortest legs (as a result my height was limited to 5' tall). But as I grew older I thought about going back to Japan and becoming a Japanese Mom, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. So in 1996 I found out that they had an online store that sold Japanese toys and I purchased my first toy there.