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New Zealand All Blacks rugby team tackle dangerous problems in Tokyo

New Zealand All Blacks rugby team tackle dangerous problems in Tokyo

Japanese advertising tends to consist of merely hiring some ubiquitous celebrity and having them hold the product in question. This lazy and mind-numbing approach has become the default for almost all major campaigns.

However, occasionally a rare spark appears on the radar that suggests that not all the nation’s advertising planners are as inept as most billboards indicate.

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Yubi #12974
> Japanese advertising tends to consist of merely hiring some ubiquitous celebrity and having them hold the product in question. Very nice way of putting it. There are a few great ads, but the rest are more or less like this.