ABC Science Show - Rising Temperatures Across Australia‏

More confirmation of climate change.

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/rising-temperatures-across-australia/4033876

Daiei Personalized Sake Gifts

Daiei is offering personalized shochu and sake containers for Father's Day (name plus happy Father's Day greeting). Orders have to be placed by the 31st.

http://www.daiei.co.jp/father/

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Sapporo Zero Sparkling Campaign‏

Sapporo Beverage is giving away chances for household electronics to customers to enter a code attached to each bottle of their Zero Sparkling (zero calorie, flavored, carbonated drink) product.

https://zerospa.jp/cp/page.php?p=index

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NPR - What's The Secret To Great Tomato Flavor?

Nice interview on Science Friday about how and why the taste of tomatoes has changed and what can be done about it.

http://www.npr.org/2012/05/25/153709184/whats-the-secret-to-great-tomato-flavor

Chocolatier HD iOS App Free

The iOS apps Chocolatier and Chocolatier HD are free this weekend - usually 250 yen or 3 dollars. The game includes recipes, ingredient sourcing and building a chocolate empire. I have just tried it a little, but seems interesting and certainly worth the price this weekend.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chocolatier-decadence-by-design/id415915527?mt=8

BBC - More or Less with Ben Goldacre‏

This week on one of my favorite programs BBC's More or Less, one of my favorite commentators, Ben Goldacre, comments on publication bias and why it is a problem.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hxtmp

Nisshin Oillio 20 Year Canola Campaign

Nisshin Oillio is celebrating the 29th anniversary of their canola oil sales with a Quo card giveaway. The cards have photos of Kazuya Ninomiya (二宮和也), who appears in their commercials, on the special Quo cards. Entry is via special codes on the back of product labels.

http://www.nisshin-oillio.com/canola-20th/

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Sapporo Barley & Hop Campaign‏

Sapporo Beer conducted a promotion to promote its new happoshu category beer (Mugi to Hop). The giveaway was same product.

http://www.sapporobeer.jp/sapporo_enq/0048/index.html

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Lotteria 40th Anniversary Contest‏

Lotteria is holding a Facebook contest to celebrate their 40th Anniversary where people vote on their favorite Lotteria special burgers over the years and the winning item will be brought back for a limited time.

http://lotteria.jp/40th/election.html

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Sapporo Bacardi Campaign

Bacardi goes through Sapporo Beer in Japan. Sapporo held a campaign to promote Bacardi in which the prize is product plus a book on office manners. Hard to imagine a book on manners to be considered a valuable prize outside Japan.

http://www.sapporobeer.jp/hppla/campaign/bacardi/index.html

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