I enjoyed these “12 Banned and Controversial TV Ads.” I have to say I understand why all of them are banned. I like this one though: "Tidy Up" by IKEA:
In Japan, this famous TV ad for "Siren" (a PS game) was too scary and kids started to cry when they watched it.
It is understandable why those ads were banned. But there are some ads that were banned in Japan for stupid reasons. In a curry rice TV ad, a woman opens a fridge and says "Wow, I found some beef! I bought it before!?" Since beef is very expensive in Japan, people complained that they would not forget having bought beef and would not cook beef so casually. The situation made people uncomfortable and the ad was banned... orz
When Emperor Hirohito’s condition worsened, the part where a guy in a Toyota TV ad asked "Are you doing well?" was replaced with silence. Maybe Toyota thought it was impudent.
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I can see why the Ikea ones were banned, but they sure are funny.
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"When Emperor Hirohito’s condition worsened, the part where a guy in a Toyota TV ad asked "Are you doing well?" was replaced with silence. Maybe Toyota thought it was impudent."
During the same time, one of the high school boys at Gakushuin (The Peers School) was expelled. His alleged "crime" was to have asked one of the classmates in the school library - a member of the Imperial family - "hey, how's your grandpa doing?" (using a casual form of address referring to Hirohito who was about a week away from kicking the bucket). That "insolence" was enough to warrant an expulsion.
One of the more memorable expulsions was the female Gakushin high school student who supposedly threw an onigiri (rice ball) at Princess Nori's head (Princess Sayako aka Sayako Kuroda).
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