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Lady Gaga and Family Mart team up for a Japanese convenience store work video [Video]
- Casey Baseel
Sep 25, 2026 - Tweet
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Can the recording star make people gaga over the idea of working at Family Mart?
- Japan, USA
- (ads • commercial • convenience stores • Family mart • Japanese convenience stores • Lady Gaga • music • video)
Giant digital sumo wrestler now stopping trains at Tokyo station【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Nov 13, 2025
Playful PlayStation team celebrates local Ryogoku culture and takes a PS5 to Kanda Shrine for a traditional autumn event.
- Japan
- (ads • clever • cool • culture • Kanda • Kanda Myojin • kanda shrine • playstation • Ryogoku • Ryokgoku Station • Shichi-Go-San • Sony • Sumo • sumo wrestlers • video games)
Studio Ghibli produces first-ever commercial for company it’s been working with for 31 years【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Aug 8, 2025
Cofounder Toshio Suzuki, animation director of The Boy and the Heron create cozy anime short for a company that’s all about making cozy textiles.
- Japan
- (ads • anime • commercials • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • manga • Studio Ghibli • Toshio Suzuki • towels • video)
McDonald’s Japan taps three ’80s anime legends for a moving, nostalgic video【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Jun 27, 2025
Three of the greatest anime series ever produced featured in video that’s not quite as simple as it might look.
- Japan
- (1980s • 80s • ads • anime • fast food • food • Kimagure Orange Road • Macross • Maison Ikkoku • manga • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • moving • touching • video)
Giant 3-D anime boobs appear on giant 3-D video billboards in Japan【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Jun 19, 2025
Honestly some pretty clever visual trickery going on in ad for video game that knows exactly what it is.
- Japan
- (3-D billboard • ads • anime • Brown Dust II • crazy • manga • video • video games • weird)
Dove ad slams Japanese beauty ideals, backfires with complaints from public instead
- SoraNews24
Oct 10, 2024
“No more kawaii standards” draws backlash in Japan.
- Japan
- (ads • advertising • beauty • beauty ideals • Dove • Japanese ads • Japanese beauty • Japanese beauty standards • Japanese women • marketing • news • twitter)
New Hello Kitty x McDonald’s Japan collaboration is like a life lesson to live by 【Video】
- Oona McGee
Sep 26, 2024
Sanrio character gets herself in a pickle for this advertising campaign.
- Japan
- (ads • burgers • COK • commercial • cute • Hello Kitty • Japanese ads • Japanese commercial • marketing • Masato Sakai • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • Samurai Mac • Sanrio • videos)
Toothpaste commercial pulled for sounding like the Japanese missile alert system
- Master Blaster
Sep 6, 2024
It’s the end of gingivitis as we know it, and I feel fine.
- Japan
- (ads • advertising • crazy • disasters • emergency preparedness • J-Alert • Japanese commercials • LION • missle • toothpaste • weird)
Bruno Mars creates commercial for Japan’s Don Quijote discount retail chain【Video】
- Oona McGee
Aug 24, 2024
The “Kawaii King” releases a catchy new bop for Japan’s craziest souvenir store.
- Japan
- (ads • Bruno Mars • COK • commercials • cool • dance • dancers • dancing • Don Quijote • Donki • Japanese commercial • marketing • music • music video • Shibuya • shops • SNJO • videos)
McDonald’s Japan made two almost identical commercials, with one tiny, touching difference【Vids】
- Casey Baseel
Mar 29, 2024
A taste, and words, to remind everyone of home.
- Japan
- (ads • fast food • food • Japanese language • linguistics • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • moving • touching • video)
McDonald’s ad in Japan causes controversy overseas
- SoraNews24
Sep 26, 2023
An anime clip viewed as harmless in Japan is interpreted differently by foreign viewers.
- Japan
- (ads • anime commercial • conntroversy • Japanese ads • Japanese commercial • marketing • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan)
Tokyo to crack down on hostess/host bar advertising trucks by closing loophole
- Casey Baseel
Apr 11, 2023
Metropolitan government may ask other parts of Japan to match its restrictions on adult entertainment advertising.
- Japan
- (ads • COK • host bars • hostess bars • promotional trucks • promotional vehicles • society • trucks)
For you, this is good enough! Appliance maker’s brutally honest ads charm Japan
- Casey Baseel
Mar 27, 2023
Don Quijote isn’t mincing words, and people are loving them for it.
- Japan
- (ads • appliances • clever • COK • Don Quijote • funny • new lifestyle • shin seikatsu • SNJO)
With entrance exams looming, “ads that only students can see” appear in Tokyo train stations
- Casey Baseel
Dec 8, 2022
To the naked eye, these ads look like gibberish, but students cramming for entrance exams can see through the mystery.
- Japan
- (ads • clever • energy drinks • entrance exams • stations • students • Zone Energy)
Pepsi creates a new cola for Christmas fried chicken in Japan
- Oona McGee
Dec 2, 2022
Raise a toast with special ingredients designed to enhance the traditional Japanese Christmas meal.
- Japan
- (ads • COK • Cola • drinks • fried chicken • japanese drinks • Japanese food • Joyman • karaage • limited edition • Limited edition flavours • marketing • pepsi • soft drinks)
Cat Pokémon appear in the Tokyo skyline with new 3-D billboard animated sequence【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Aug 8, 2022
Meowth, Litten, and their fellow Pokémon felines appear on International Cat Day.
- Japan
- (ads • anime • cats • cool • Cross Shinjuku Vision • cute • International Cat Day • Litten • Meowth • Pokemon • video • video billboards • video games)
Giant puppies frolic, play with frisbees in the Tokyo skyline in new 3-D billboard display【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Aug 5, 2022
Akitas appear in an appropriate part of town.
Shochu brand Iichiko produces an anime short which leaves us warm and fuzzy inside
- Krista Rogers
Jun 28, 2022
The story focuses on a father-daughter relationship, future dreams, and how two long-running Iichiko poster advertisements connect them all.
- Japan
- (ads • anime • commercial • Iichiko • Japanese language • linguistics • manga • Masayuki Kusumi • moving • shochu • Solitary Gourmet • Suzuko Mimori • Tarusuke Shingaki • touching • YouTube)
Japanese public restroom ads donate to charities every time a stall is used
- Master Blaster
Jun 15, 2022
Come be a part of the movement!
Pepsi releases a new cola in Japan specifically for karaage fried chicken
- Oona McGee
Jun 9, 2022
Colourless beverage contains special ingredients to enhance the flavour of Japan’s “national dish”.
- Japan
- (ads • COK • Cola • drinks • fried chicken • japanese drinks • Japanese food • Joyman • karaage • limited edition • Limited edition flavours • marketing • pepsi • soft drinks)
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