Meiji is giving away product to promote their Protein Diet line of protein mix meal replacement. Entry is via webform after logging on to the Meiji members club site.
http://www.meiji.co.jp/health/p-plus/dietsupport/proteinpoint/
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Meiji is giving away product to promote their Lola brand CoQ10 supplements. Entry is by web form after logging onto the company's members page.
http://www.meiji.co.jp/health/lola/cmp/120601_lolacmp/index.html
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Many Japanese promotions only seem to make sense once you have bought into the club or marketing scheme that has been created by the retailer. In this case, Circle K Sunkus stores have a Karuwaza Club which allows to user to earn points on purchases, use Rakuten Edy points and get coupons in store items. If you are a member of this club and go to a special Karuwaza Station (which looks similar to a banking machine) located inside the convenience store, you can get Mokupon coupons (which is short for Thursday coupon 木ーポン). These coupons are advertised as being for Thursday discounts on a variety of items, but in this case the coupons are available for a full 3 week period and give the customer a discount on the purchase of iTunes prepaid cards. There really is much more to these Karuwaza Stations and I should explain fully as some point.
http://www.circleksunkus.jp/cs/sale/itunes_card/index.html
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Itoyokado (retailer and sister company to 7-Eleven) is offering a home delivery service called Net-Super(market). I assume this is as much about responding to the graying of Japan as it is about convenience. But is really is an interesting service. With Itoyokado's nationwide outlets covering most of Japan, they can respond to orders very quickly. They promise to deliver orders as fast as 4 hours from the time the order is placed and the website will take orders 23 hours a day.
Membership is free and they are currently holding a free delivery campaign (I couldn't readily find how much delivery will cost after the campaign.)
Articles advertised include food, personal and household items.
https://www.iy-net.jp/
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Asahi is holding a campaign where there are multiple chances to win sets of Asahi Dry beer. The main way is to follow Asahi on Twitter or Facebook and fill in a web form. You can also collect proof of purchase seals and send them in.
Asahi is also opening a number of Extra Cold Bars for the summer in major cities.
http://www.asahibeer.co.jp/superdry/extracold/cheers/
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Kamedo, the confectionary maker, is giving away 5 two person round trip vacations to France (8 days, 6 nights). Entry is by mailing in the answer to a quiz by postcard. The giveaway is to promote a dashi flavored line of rice crackers.
http://www.teshioya.com/campaign/
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Pronto, the coffee shop chain, features different pastas each month. This months pastas are meat sauce spaghetti with paprika from the Shinshu (信州, old name for Nagano) region of Japan, chilled spicy cod roe (mentaiko 明太子) fresh pasta salad, and ginger flavored pasta with plum chicken and a plum on top (the plums are from the Kishu 紀州 region of Japan, old name for Wakayama).
http://www.pronto.co.jp/menu/cafe/food.html
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Increasingly retailers across Japan are starting to accept Chinese Union Pay (or Ginren) credit cards. I first started seeing them several years ago, mainly in tourist spots like Akihabara, but now even Daiei accepts these credit cards. That says a lot about the number of Chinese vistors and their buying power.
http://shop.daiei.co.jp/shop/PickupShopView.do?pickid=58
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Asahi is giving away 2 cans of their Style Free (zero sugar) hoppushu beer for 100 registered members of its online site.
http://www.asahibeer.co.jp/stylefree/cp/120618-120713/index.html
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During the end of June, Suntory is holding daily Fun Race events to promote Gatorade Run sports drink. People who participate in the daily Regular Races earn chances at cases of product. People who run in the weekly One More Run Race 10 km races earn changes at participating in the 7th Annual Shonan Marathon. Entry is via either Twitter or Facebook.
http://gatorade.jp/funrace/
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