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Japanese Bank Features Ads, Slots and Cellphone Access

by Steve Levenstein

Caught between fierce competition for customers and constant pressure to reduce fees, Japan's Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank is now featuring short commercial ads at some of its ATMs in exchange for half-price fees. The ads are just the latest attempt by OK to lure new business by using innovative marketing techniques.

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by Amy Gifford

Sex sells. Check out these ads that prove sex really does sell.

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Airplanes as Billboards - Inventive Marketing

by Amy Gifford

You would not believe what they can do with airplanes these days... read more »

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Japan's TV Samurai Dramas Stand the Test of Time

by Steve Levenstein

As television continues to lose both audience and relevance in a society increasingly fascinated with online and wireless media offerings, Japan's classic "Samurai Dramas" buck the trend by providing exciting and engrossing entertainment the old fashioned way.

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GM Cars in the Transformers - Inventive Marketing

by Amy Gifford

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Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet Wants Your Money!

by Steve Levenstein

The landmark 1956 film "Forbidden Planet" stood head and shoulders above the swamp of sci-fi schlock that oozed out from the paranoid 1950s, and its most memorable star wasn't even human! Now "Robby the Robot" has returned, talking fast, telling the time and taking your spare change!

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Japan's Internet Cafés House the Homeless

by Steve Levenstein

With affordable housing in Tokyo nearly nonexistent, both the desperate and the destitute have discovered a viable alternative to cramped apartments and capsule hotels: full featured Internet cafés!

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Robot Seal Pup Delivers Cute, Effective Therapy

by Steve Levenstein

"Paro", a cute & cuddly artificial baby harp seal certified by Guinness as "The World's Most Therapeutic Robot" is slowly but surely changing the way we think (and feel) about robots.

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Unusual and Unique Business Cards Make for Smart Marketing

by Amy Gifford

What better way to market yourself than your business card.

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The Top 10 Weirdest and Funniest Japanese Condoms

by Steve Levenstein

Fans of "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" know that Japanese can burn rubber with the best of them. Need proof? Here are the the top 10 most interesting, unusual and downright weird ways Japan's condom manufacturers seek to beat off the competition in the rubbery race for safe sex supremacy! read more »

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