{"id":13495,"date":"2011-03-21T23:45:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T14:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=13495"},"modified":"2011-03-21T23:45:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T14:45:50","slug":"placeholder-public-service-commercial-buzzed-crazy-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/placeholder-public-service-commercial-buzzed-crazy-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Placeholder Public Service Commercial Buzzed Crazy In Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Advertising Council Japan<\/a> (AC Japan) has been mostly a sole commercial providers on Japanese commercial TV stations for a week since the East Japan Earthquake occured. As most regular companies did not want to play their commercial with fear of criticized as inconsiderate during many people are in deep grief, all commercial stations (i.e. non NHK) are airing didactic commercial films from this public service organization for placeholder.
\nI think it is not their fault, but many people seemed to be irritated by the AC’s commercials, especially its jingle at the end of all films singing “AC”. On 17th, AC Japan posted apology<\/a> on repeat of their few films endlessly, even it was by decision of each TV station, and said that they are preparing versions without the last jingle. You can relive it on this 5 minutes jingle repeat<\/a>.
\nOne of the few commercial films is this one<\/a>, calling for people to greet with lots of Japanese pun, like dog says “Konnichiwan”(Konnichiwa<\/strong> + wa<\/strong>n = Hello + woof), rabbit talks “Arigatousagi”(Arigatou<\/strong> + U<\/strong>sagi = Thanks + rabbit)
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