Glico Cheeza Campaign

Glico is conducting a campaign to promote their Cheeza snack crackers where you have to follow the special Twitter stream and tweet about the product. The prize is the same product.

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Kikkoman VegStart Campaign

Kikkoman is conducting a campaign to promote their new Del Monte branded VegStart vegetable drink. If you fill out an online form you have a chance at free product.

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Nissin's UFO Noodle Campaign

Corresponding with the renewal of Nissin's UFO cup noodle product (the noodles have longer lasting flavor), Nissin is giving away the same product to registered members of the Nissin Club site who go to the site and click on an entry link.

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Kraft Cookpad Campaign

Kraft (which goes through Morinaga in Japan) is running a campaign where if you submit a recipe to the Japanese food site Cookpad, which includes Kraft cheese, you become eligible for a prize. The current version calls for use of grated Parmesan cheese in the recipe.

http://cookpad.com/kraftcheese

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Meiji Essel School of Lock Campaign

This is sort of convoluted, but here goes: Meiji Essel ice cream is conducting a campaign with advertising on Tokyo-FM's "School of Lock" program, which commonly goes by SOL. SOL sounds very similar to Essel, thus the connection. Why "School of Lock"? It comes from the movie "School of Rock". The Rock is changed to Lock. Lock is meant more as a key than a lock, therefore giving you the meaning "key to the future of music". Got it? Neither do I, but if customers do, that is all that matters. 

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Lotte K-Pop Autographed Card Campaign

This is a natural for Lotte which has a sister company in Korea. For those who don't know, K-Pop stands for Korean pop music, as opposed to J-Pop and it is currently very popular in Japan.

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7-Eleven Monster Hunter Campaign

Promotes the PlayStation game by the same name. Figurine giveaways and prizes including Lotte chocolate.

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ABC Science Show - Protecting endangered fish stocks‏

Story on how orange rouphy were over fished but are now recovering somewhat under management. On this edition there is also a discussion of endangered fish stocks and how to protect them. High rates of mislabeling of fish in markets is noted as one problem as is the fishmeal industry.

State of the orange roughy
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/state-of-the-orange-roughy/3909078
Protecting endangered fish stocks
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/protecting-endangered-fish-stocks/3909086

ABC Science Show - Inefficiency of meat production & Ireland‏

Dublin is the European City of Science this year and the Director of Science Foundation Ireland is interviewed and discusses Ireland's commitment to science despite recent economic problems.

Science remains strong in Ireland
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/science-remains-strong-in-ireland/3894878

Inefficiency of meat production

An interview with two researchers trying to develop artificial meat, starting with a hamburger. Such a product remains a long way in the future, but interest in this subject comes mostly from people concerned with the environmental impact of meat production.

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/inefficiency-of-meat-production/3894896

ABC Science Show - Japan one year after its earthquake and tsunami‏

Nice update on the Fukushima disaster last year. Makes a lot of points which can easily be overlooked: the real tragedy was the tsunami not the nuclear accident, even an out of date nuclear reactor with design flaws hit by a once in a 1,000 years disaster combined with human error has yet to result in one human death (pretty amazing), and the real heroes were the Fukushima 50. There is also discussion of the effects on area produce.

Japan one year after its earthquake and tsunami

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/japan-one-year-after-its-earthquake-and-tsunami/3880304

Also
Exposing the Heartland Institute (climate change obfuscation group)
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/exposing-the-heartland-institute/3880292
Also of interest is a climate change related segment on warmer waters reducing the spawning of Pacific salmon.