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Japanese Mini-LPs
What's an Obi?

The 'Obi' means the 'Belt' in Japanese.
Originally, the obi is one of the essential components of traditional Japanese dress for fixing the kimono to one's body.
As for mini-LPs, it is a small slip of paper with a title and song lists printed in Japanese, inserted between a shrink-wrap and a jewel case.
Normally, an obi strip provides information about the current release. 

Japanese paper sleeve reissue from The Who featuring a Japan-only edition of the original album. 
Features highly-realistic replica artwork on cardboard sleeve jacket and recreated obi.
 Part of a two-album The Who cardboard sleeve reissue series featuring the albums "I'm a Boy" and "Exciting The Who." 
     



    

                                                     
Miniture replica artworks - Everythings is as it was before (even misprints)                     My Generation Girl's sleeve


Disk Union



The Disc Union (DU in short) is a record shop in Japan. They often have their original promotions.
Typical DU surprises are their beautiful promo box sets, and it is very popular on ebay or auctions around the world.
Unfortunatey, they will never ship to worldwide, but you can see their fantastic jobs at their website.

          
  My Generation Promo Boxes Odds and Sods Box


Boxes and obis 
More details coming soon!

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