Kitsuné Maison, the musical minds behind some of the biggest acts of 2009 including La Roux, obviously weren’t happy with ridding you of all your money on music downloads, and look set to empty your wallet of even more cash with the opening of the new Kitsuné temporary clothes store on Omotesando in Tokyo.
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Kitsuné - But not as you know it
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Whaling protester secretly boards Japanese boat to attempt citizen's arrest
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Pete Bethune, the former captain of the now defunct Ady Gil, "planned to hand over a bill for $3 million, the cost of replacing the Ady Gil, [... and] wanted to make a citizen's arrest of the captain of the Shonan Maru 2 for the Ady Gil's destruction, and the attempted murder of six Ady Gil crew members".
Read more »Maison Hermes Scarves in Shop Window - c/w video
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Maison Hermes in Japan is experimenting with a shop front window art installation designed by Satoshi Asakawa. Each window shows a Hermès scarf apparently being blown about by the breath of a Japanese actress. The illusion is achieved by venting air from a small hole in the wall near the mouth in the printed image.
Read more »Paris, Milan, Tokyo. Tokyo?
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Japan’s trailblazers of street fashion are the envy of Western designers, spawning Web sites filled with snapshots of Tokyo youngsters in the latest distressed jeans or psychedelic stockings.
Read more »Invasion of the Three-Word Ad Slogan
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Power Your Innovation? Dream You Life? Test your ad slogan knowledge.
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‘Toyotathon’ – Car Giant to Spend $1 Billion on Marketing in US
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Toyota is going on the offense at the end of the year in the US, with a massive launch to their ‘Toyotathon’ marketing and sales campaign.
Read more »Boobs Used As Marketing For Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2
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It's no secret that Tecmo's Team Ninja is a fan of *ahem* the female form - in particular the breasts - but this Japanese viral advertisement is just a bit ... strange. One look at any of girls in the modern Ninja Gaiden games or the Dead or Alive series will tell you all you need to know: Tomonobu Itagaki really likes boobs, and the games created by his Team Ninja reflect that.
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advertising the url
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Once thing I have noticed about Japanese adverts is that a lot of them show the search-word required to find their site on the web. I haven’t seen this in other countries and wondered what other people had seen around the world?
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Sora, the museum director, is a cat
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A cat that has become a regular visitor to a Nagano museum for famous haiku poet Issa Kobayashi has been made a special director of the museum...
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Softbank hopefuls required to sell mobile phone contracts as part of job interview
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Applicants to the business planning and retail sales divisions of three Softbank Group companies (Softbank Mobile, Softbank BBm, Softbank Telecom) were required to sell contracts in order to exhibit their "sales power" as part of a "special interview quota," in addition to the usual written test and interview.
What's in a name?
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We all know the Japanese often use English to give things a veneer of instant cool, but surely giving your country a foreign name for the sake of ‘cool’ is a step too far?
Read more »How Sweet It Is! Chocolate Beer Combines Two Favorite Vices
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Chocolate beer is the latest Japanese entry in the bizarre drinks sweepstakes. Imagine the sinfully sweet combination of rich cocoa and full-bodied beer... and thank Sapporo Brewery for bringing such a delightful nectar to market!
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Andy Warhol condoms at Lawson convenience stores in Japan
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Andy Warhol condoms are currently being sold at Lawson convenience stores in Japan.
15 minutes of fame guaranteed.
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Mixi-ed juice
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When Calpis set about creating the fourth flavor in the Fruits Calpis line-up they asked users of Mixi, Japan’s largest social networking service, for their ideas. The resulting flavor is Mixed Fruit, a blend of apple, pear, mandarin orange, and banana.
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Read more »McDonalds Japan Goes No-Brand with Quarter Pounder Shops
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No clowns, no shakes, no golden arches. McDonalds Japan is testing the waters of no-brand marketing with newly opened Quarter Pounder stores in Tokyo.
Read more »3D posters in Shibuya
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Check out the photo of one of a series of 3D posters in Shibuya. Eerie.
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Animated signs in Japan
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Photos and vids of the various animated signs you can see around Japan.
Read more »J-marketers targeting newly rich women
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Marketing companies in Japan have identified and are targeting two new groups of newly rich women: “career rich class” women now in the their 30s and 40s who are making over ¥10,000,000 in annual income and the “highly sensitive senior rich class” housewives in their 40s and up with an annual household income of over ¥20,000,000.
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