2008年10月8日水曜日

Japanese pop culture

Today's topic is Japanese pop culture.



I think online shopping is getting popular among lots of Japanese people.
Younger people mainly buy clothes on shopping websites. Actually I got a jacket for this winter on a shopping website. Sometimes they sell much cheaper than stores do. I also have some shopping catalogues.



I'm wondering why their models are not Japanese. Though most of customers are supposed to be Japanese people.





These bears are "rela-kuma", and white one is "ko- rela-kuma". "Rela" means "relax" and "kuma" means "bears". "Ko" means "小(small)" in Japanese. They are expeced to get people relaxed and feel comfortable. They have been loved by girls in Japan for a few years. At first I didn't like them at all, but after one of my friends gave me a key ring of ko-rela-kuma, I found them so cute.
Now they are appearing in the TV commercial for TOYOTA.


1 件のコメント:

visual gonthros さんのコメント...

You have two interesting topics dealing with pop culture this week. I think I would prefer you to choose one of them and provide more in-depth information. Why do you think they use foreign models? And it is funny because Japanese clothes often do not fit foreign bodies...

http://visualanthropologyofjapan.blogspot.com/2007/08/some-summer-images.html