Model kit maker Tamiya has come up with a rather innovative business card, one that can actually be taken apart to build a tiny model.
A sake brewer is promoting its Shiro shochu with a new web viral campaign called “Cheers System,” that inserts Twitter avatars inside a video.
You’ll be hard pressed to find a catchier commercial this spring/summer than this one featuring singer Kaera Kimura for NTT Docomo’s new line of mobile handsets.
Each country or cultural region has a uniquely-structured industry responsible for producing, promoting, and distributing the products that make up what we consider “pop culture.” In the case of Japan, there is a single organizational category most responsible for the form and content of pop culture: the artist management company, called colloquially jimusho (”office.”) The jimusho wield a powerful cultural influence on all fields that require performers — television (variety and drama), advertising, music, modeling, gravia, and films.
Just as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of David Lynch’s short-lived — but oh-so-enjoyable — Twin Peaks TV series, CNNGo digs up a few commercials from the early nineties for Georgia canned coffee featuring characters from the show.
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Patrick Macias digs up a few replica gun ads from the early seventies, most of them clearly aimed at children.
“Tokyo/Glow” is a short created for men’s fashion brand The Generic Man.
