{"id":8004,"date":"2010-04-15T08:47:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T23:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=8004"},"modified":"2010-04-15T08:47:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T23:47:24","slug":"hewlett-packard-japans-maid-in-tokyo-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/hewlett-packard-japans-maid-in-tokyo-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Hewlett-Packard Japan&#8217;s &#8220;Maid in Tokyo&#8221; Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s No.1 PC vendor Hewlett-Packard(HP)&#8217;s Japan branch is running <a href=\"http:\/\/h50146.www5.hp.com\/directplus\/personal\/promotions\/desktops\/20100412_maid_in_tokyo\/\">a new campaign &#8220;Maid in Tokyo&#8221;<\/a> [J], featuring two girls from Japanese idol unit Aidoringu(made up from &#8220;Idle&#8221;+&#8221;-ing&#8221;) in maid costume, to appeal that the HP&#8217;s PC are &#8220;made in Tokyo&#8221;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/maid-in-tokyo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/maid-in-tokyo-400x350.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"maid-in-tokyo\" width=\"400\" height=\"350\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8005\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAccording to <a href=\"http:\/\/h50146.www5.hp.com\/promotions\/ad\/pc\/made_in_tokyo\/\">the HP site<\/a> [J], since 1999 they have been producing PC in a factory in Akishima city, Tokyo, to lower the incipient failure, a fair amount of which is caused by vibration and shock during transfer. So shorter moving distance, more reliable their PC is, is their message.<br \/>\nOn the campaign, you may apply for the prizes 1. Aidoringu live concert tickets, 2. alarm clock beeps with the idol&#8217;s voice message and 3. note PC with idol&#8217;s signature.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8019\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8019\" style=\"width: 399px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/maid-in-tokyo-game.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/maid-in-tokyo-game-399x313.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"maid-in-tokyo-game\" width=\"399\" height=\"313\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8019\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8019\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Writing chocolate message on pancake is Akihabara's new tradition at maid cafe.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nOne of the girl recommends you a quad-core AMD Phenom processor with 2TB HDD.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/hp-pc-recommended-by-aidoringu.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/hp-pc-recommended-by-aidoringu-400x354.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"hp-pc-recommended-by-aidoringu\" width=\"400\" height=\"354\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8007\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI do not know much how Hewlet-Packard promotes their PC in USA, but this maid thingy seems genuinely &#8220;do as the Romans do&#8221; style for Japanese geeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s No.1 PC vendor Hewlett-Packard(HP)&#8217;s Japan branch is running a new campaign &#8220;Maid in Tokyo&#8221; [J], featuring two girls from Japanese idol unit Aidoringu(made up from &#8220;Idle&#8221;+&#8221;-ing&#8221;) in maid costume, to appeal that the HP&#8217;s PC are &#8220;made in Tokyo&#8221;. According to the HP site [J], since 1999 they have been producing PC in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/hewlett-packard-japans-maid-in-tokyo-campaign\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hewlett-Packard Japan&#8217;s &#8220;Maid in Tokyo&#8221; Campaign<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[151,1531,1584,1627,2180,2841,3718],"class_list":["post-8004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","tag-aidoringu","tag-hewlett-packard","tag-hp","tag-idol","tag-maid","tag-pc","tag-tokyo","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}