Yonex Announces Ryo Ishikawa’s Wardrobe for The Masters

Proposed attire for Ishikawa at The Masters

In a bold effort to publicize Ryo Ishikawa at this years Masters, Yonex and his Japanese publicist have agreed to license assless chaps as his final round Sunday attire. Similar to Tigers red shirt Ryo’s assless chaps will be synonymous with winning.

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Dentsu’s Releases New Corporate Slogan Targeted Towards Married Execs Who Need to Impress Their Clients With Prostitutes

DENTSU

2009: Moving Forward Under A New Corporate Slogan:“Good Innovation.”
— The Dentsu Group to Pursue True Self-Improvement and Innovation —

On January 5th right after the long New Years holiday in Japan, the Big Thinking ever creative minds at Dentsu came up with a new  Slogan.

Tateo Mataki CEO of Dentsu announced the new Corporate slogan…

GOOD INNOVATION

Good Innovation?

Is it just me or is this slogan lame? A bit droopy in the noodle area? A slogan created from smoking weed and stuffing your face with pizza kinda creativity?

Now for you people who typed the keyword Prostitute, Dentsu is one of the biggest Ad agencies in the world. They have a 15% stake in Publicis Groupe, the Paris-based owner of Saatchi & Saatchi.

My question today is:

Will Dentsu create a new slogan next year because they realized that Good Innovation is just NO GOOD?

Was this the work of Yoshihiro Sato or one of them electronic translator devices? Is He still creative Director there?

Please fill out the poll to your right.

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Dentsu goes global – International Herald Tribune.

Nike Cosplay Average Japanese Joe Gets a Makeover

This commercial is one of the most ridiculous commercials I’ve ever seen.  But I love it! Not all Nike people are super jocks. This ad  obviously targets the average Joe working dude. It also targets the family because of the super Rangers or whatever you want to call those people. It  was on a very low budget an d it almost almost looked real. I wonder who did this  commercial? Being  NIKE  IT WAS PROBABLY  Dentsu.

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Mr. Obama and OBAMA City In Japan Nice Town

Obama City in Japan was given a very big New Years present when Obama   becamethe President  .

The city has branded everything to President Obama. Obama Burgers, Obama Manju, Obama Sushi.

You name it Obama is the key word.

Do you think Obama will visit Obama City during his Presidency?

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Obama, Fukui – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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OBAMA City Website | English Page.

Yoshihiro Sato Carré de Chocolat Non-Blinking Woman

This is a great example of how West meets east when it comes to creating Japanese commercials. Very memorable! Very catchy in the sense that the whole world is watching like our 24 hour CNN footage or similar to The Truman Show. Everyone remembers the bad guy and Carre de chocolate is the bad guy for very good intentions.

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These are the players who made this commercial

JAPAN(Television)Carré de Chocolat “Non-Blinking Woman”Entrant: DENTSU INC. Tokyo, TokyoAgency: DENTSU INC. TokyoCreative Director(s): Yoshihiro SatoCopywriter(s): Makoto Shinohara,Tsunao AritaAgency Producer(s): Kaoru OkimuraProduction Company: Mothers Inc.Director(s): Jun KawanishiCinematographer(s): Akihiro OkabayashiOther(s): Account Executive: Jun SugimotoProduction Producer:Yoshihiro Matsukuma

Top Japanese Creative Directors Live at Dentsu

Dentsu may be big. Dentsu may be Strong. But Dentsu is actually creative also. Unlike many huge companies, Dentsu has managed to stay away from complacency and has been able to hand pick the most creative people to  launch successful ad campaign after successful ad campaign.

Take a look at the list below.

Over the next year I hope to track down these brilliant people and pick their brains.

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Creator of the Year was established in 1989 by the Japan Advertising Agencies Association to elect an outstanding creator for the year. Since its launch, 17 out of 19 creators anointed “Creator of the Year” have been from Dentsu.

1989	Takehiko Miura	Dentsu Inc.
1990	Masahiko Sato	Dentsu Inc.
1991	Tatsuya Ishii	Dentsu Inc.
1992	Yukio Oshima	Dentsu Inc.
1993	Hiroshi Sasaki	Dentsu Inc.
1994	Kunihiko Tainaka	Dentsu Inc.
1995	Teruhiko Ando	Hakuhodo Inc.
1996	Yasumichi Oka	Dentsu Inc.
1997	Taku Tada	Dentsu Inc.
1998	Hiroshi Sasaki	Dentsu Inc.
1999	Nobuhiro Nakaji	Dentsu Inc.
2000	Yoshimitsu Sawamoto	Dentsu Inc.
2001	Shinichi Fukuzato	Dentsu Inc. / One Sky Inc.
2002	Takaaki Yamazaki	Dentsu Inc.
2003	Kazunori Saito	Dentsu Inc.
2004	Kazufumi Nagai	Hakuhodo Inc.
2005	Yuya Furukawa	Dentsu Inc.
2006	Yoshimitsu Sawamoto	Dentsu Inc.
2007	Yoshihiro Sato	Dentsu Inc.