Jean Snow [.net]

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  • Show Windows to Watch

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    From The ODK: Japan Design Net’s “Tokyo Show Window” posts monthly snapshot collections of the incredibly designed storefronts of Tokyo’s shopping districts like Ginza, Aoyama, and Harajuku.

  • Densha

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    I love my Tokyo trains!

  • Honda CMs

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    Paul has a nice little collection of links to great Honda TV commercials that can be viewed online. My favorite one has to be “Cog” — absolutely brilliant.

  • Where's the Dragon?

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    Microsoft’s pulling out the big guns! Just now, in the span of a few minutes, twice I saw a commercial that shows Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of the FINAL FANTASY series, sitting in front of a computer with Akira Toriyama (with Toriyama’s face hidden, of course), and he says something like, “Toriyama, you really are great!”…

  • Mario as Okamura

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    I love the TV campaign for MARIO KART DS that stars my favorite Japanese comedians, the manzai duo 99, and Kotaku points to this page where you can watch them online.

  • Bunpei Yorifuji

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    Just now on TV I caught a fascinating profile of illustrator/designer/art director Bunpei Yorifuji. He’s done tons of book covers, but his most recognizable work for readers of this site would probably be the infamous JT “smoking etiquette” campaign. He has his offices in Ginza, and he does all his work on a ping-pong table.…

  • More Nano Advertising in Shibuya

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    More (with plenty of pictures) on Apple’s iPod nano ad campaign in Shibuya.

  • NWA Ad

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    The new NWA ad campaign. Update: The reason I took a picture of this is that I find it interesting how they’ve based the compaign around the use of the QR barcode. Just goes to show how popular it’s become — pretty much every ad you see includes a QR barcode that leads to more…