In this year-end, I can eat a lot of sweets at WORK. Why? Because it is Oseibo season in Japan. Oseibo is a custom to give gifts to people such as co-workers, bosses, relatives, teachers, friends, and so on at the end of the year in December. The price of the gift depends on whom it is sent to. During the bubble, the average price would be higher than now. In this recession, I heard it is around 3000yen.
I remember when I was kid I went to get some oseibo with mom. She selected them in depachika and sent them to my dad's bosses, and co-workers. And also we got a lot of oseibo too, I was playing with building soap cake instead of blocks. This is true. However this custom has been getting changed a little bit. For example, at my company, we have an absolute ban on Oseibo exchanging inside the company. Actually it might be sort of a backhander, and also it had to be a burden for company workers. And I do not think a young family will not send oseibo to relatives. (Actually I have never gotten oseibo by myself in my life). But it has not disappeared, actually the number of oseibo from company customers is much even now. They send a gift to each section, each person in charge, who they are dealing and working with. So today I could eat, Cookies, Osenbe, Candy and Juice. I need to be careful not to gain weight! Sometimes, we get something odd or hot. My boss gets a Lobster every year-end from somewhere.
I got big air cleaner machine, (it was impossible to bring it to home, so it is working in a meeting room ) Because I was working on a promotion for Pichon Kun, which is a main character of Daikin Kyogo, one of the big Air conditioner makers here. TV commercial means pichon kun is wanted in dehumidify, threw away in humid easily. A manipulated poor Pichon kun says, "for aught, I care". Because of its cute looks, pichon kun was a popular character in Japan
And I do not think a young family will not send oseibo to relatives. (Actually I have never gotten oseibo by myself in my life). But it has not disappeared, actually the number of oseibo from company customers is much even now. http://www.panbeadssales.com/
Posted by: pandora jewels | Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 03:12 PM
Sounds like Digimon Character..lol
Posted by: Air Conditioner Installation St. Petersburg | Tuesday, June 22, 2010 at 02:26 PM
I remember seeing CM of Pichon Kun, but I was never sure exactly what it was for until now. I think there were also cute baikin (sort of like Anpanman's enemy Baikin Man) that Pichon Kun defeated. But lots of CM are cute, sometimes it's hard to tell exactly what they are selling if your Japanese is not very good (like mine!) For a while here, there was a fad on the internet about viewing the CM of the Anabuki Construction Company...
Posted by: Claire (クレア) | Thursday, December 16, 2004 at 11:25 AM