This is a blog showcasing any and all advertising that I can find that originated in Japan. Some are hilarious, some are weird, and others are pretty much normal.
Check out this Windows 7 Whopper! Looks delicious in a ridiculous way. No clue if this is real or not, or what it says for that matter, but this showed up on my Facebook wall and I just had to share it with you all.
UPDATE: If they made this Texas style (with cheese, bacon, and jalapenos) I would totally attempt to eat it.
This is one of the post that shows how some Japanese are complete insanity. It seems to be for some sort of supplement, or drink. I'm sending it to my friend to see what he can tell me. This also demonstrates the Japanese habit of putting American (I know Arnold isn't American by birth) actors and actresses into their ads. Until then enjoy!
UPDATE: My Japanese friend got back to me and explained what this commercail's about. Here's exactly what he had to say about it.
"OK this is an old commercial for a kind of energy drink.they are playing chinese traditional board game. but in this case, they are playing a game so-called customer game, that is , playing with business clients. The point is that Arnold won that game although they had to make the clients win. and the contract got cancelled because of him. so he took the energy drink to chin up."
I Like Softbank. It's a cellular provider in Japan that has an interesting brand image that features clean white motifs, and dog that is the father of a family. Also, the family has a black brother who has his japanese down pat.
check out a few ads I stole from some other blogs.
After our trip to Singapore last summer we swung back by Tokyo to visit for a few more days, to find that although we'd been gone for a month Tokyo had changed a bit. The most noticeable thing was the release of the iPhone 3GS worldwide, and SoftBank was pushing it hard. I'll never forget the Japanese man in the iPhone section of the huge store in Akiba shouting about the iPhone while wearing a mantle/cape that had the soft bank dog on it.
Well I've been away for awhile since school has been crashing down on me the past few weeks. I've finally got a breather here for a few days which is nice, but shortly the cycle will start all over again. But Enough about school, let's talk about Japanese advertising. Today we're talking about Dentsu the largest advertising giant in Japan and surrounding areas.
Via wikipedia: "Dentsu's sales are more than double its nearest competitor, Hakuhodo or ADK, in the Japanesemarket. Dentsu's success and dominance in Japan stems from Dentsu's origins as a media representative during the early part of the 20th Century. Dentsu produced the first newspaper advertisements as well as the first television commercials in Japan. Dentsu now offers a range of services, all in-house, from traditional marketing and creative, to specialty disciplines such as sports marketing, entertainment rights, PR, digital contents, and a growing range of communications services.
Dentsu has a Digital hub for Europe and global communications, called Dentsu Digital, based in Brussels."
Basically if you want to be a part of advertising in Japan, Dentsu is your go to place. My Japanese contact's sister is in advertising in japan and somehow does not work at Dentsu. (It's pretty competitive I hear) But she'll get there eventually I assume. Also Taichi, (my contact) is at sea for a month, so finding ads is kind of tough at the moment.
I'm going to keep this short since I need to get back and just dump some links at the end here
