Other countries culture and humour can be hard to understand. Any of you that have been to Japan or seen any Japanese TV will know that that it can deliver equal measures of genius, bizarre and funny. Network World has put together 10 Japanese ads mostly advertising tech items that each have their own set of weird or funny.
The comments section of the article provides some guidance as to the reasoning behind some of the ads, like #6 which makes more sense when you know Takashi is a boys name, and what a frog and chicken have to do with toilet seats in #8. While my favorites were the toilet seat and Arnie’s energy drink ad, I wonder how many more copies of Windows would be sold if they used their Japanese ads everywhere. It would probably be good for Apple.
On a side note the Japanese also have the best game shows bar none!
Human tetris
Treadmill hurdles
And brilliant obstacle course games