Sushi Cook is an app which is free today. It has a number of instructional videos on preparing sushi and looks worth today's price.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sushi-cook/id494648789?mt=8
Lotteria is offering a limited edition deluxe shrimp burger. Coupons are online
which give you a free small french fries with a purchase.
http://lotteria.jp/coupon_mm/
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Morinaga is giving away chances for a free tennis lesson from Kei Nishikori, Japan's top professional player, to promote their Weider line of sports drinks. Entry is by collecting enough points from stickers attached to packages and then mailing them in via postcard.
https://cp-weider.jp/
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Meiji is celebrating 10 years of Amino Collagen sales with a 10,000,000 yen giveaway (100 people x 10,000 yen x 10 months) each month between March and December of this year. Entry is via proof of purchase on the label.
http://www.meiji.co.jp/health/amicolla/cmp/120210_beautysupport/
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Takanashi is promoting their new Low Fat Milk To You product with a Quo card (digital money) giveaway via Twitter participation. This product is promoted as the first in Japan to use pure filtration to partially sterilize the milk, allowing for lower temperature pasteurization and thus better taste.
http://www.milk-toyou.jp/
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Subway announced that on June 6th, there will be a new menu which will include 5 new sandwiches: cured ham & mascarpone, Philly steak, spicy Mexican, bacon & potato, and potato & cheese, (Mascarpone is a variety of Italian made from cream coagulated using either citric or acetic acid.)
http://www.subway.co.jp/press/year2012/news79/
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Suntory runs one of the most prominent music halls in Tokyo (Suntory Hall). As part of their "Let's Enjoy Music" program, they giveaway tickets to specially reserved seats, called Junior Program Seats", to elementary and middle school students for classical music concerts. Entry is via web form.
http://www.suntory.co.jp/suntoryhall/topics/index.html
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First Kitchen is offering a new flavor in its desserts lineup. They are calling it Pudding Float, which does not sound that great in English. Pudding in Japan is more like what you would call a custard in the US, and these are drinks. So what you have are custard flavored drinks topped with soft ice cream. This flavor is also being used with the tapioca drink line.
http://www.first-kitchen.co.jp/house_shop/grand.php?menucat=9#mtop
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Suntory is giving away goods related to the "Space Brothers" (宇宙兄弟) movie which is now in theaters to promote Pepsi. They are even giving away two replica space suits. Space Brothers was a popular manga series before becoming a movie.
http://www.pepsi.co.jp/campaign/index.html?fromgab=topnews#uchu1
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First Kitchen has a limited edition mille-feuille pork cutlet sandwich, which is so named because the pork cutlet contains thin-cut layers of roast beef and therefore resembles the French pastry. An added yuzu sauce also distinguishes this from the typical pork cutlet sandwich.
http://www.first-kitchen.co.jp/news/?ym=201204#nw104
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