Meiji is the official Japanese dairy products Japanese Olympic Committee sponsor.
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Burger King is celebrating 5 years in Japan with periodic specials. Although this special is over, it is pretty interesting. A special Whopper 5 (five patties) to celebrate 5 years. This was only available for the first 10 people to order each day of the three day promotion. That is a LOT of meat. Not sure I could handle it myself.
http://www.burgerkingjapan.co.jp/campaign/cp54.html
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In another offering for summer chugen gift giving season, Kagome is offering a box of four vegetable-fruit mixtures, which use 100% Japanese ingredients and each of which feature well known regional produce.
1) decopon (デコポン variety of Japanese sweet orange) and Hokkaido carrots
2) Japanese kyoho grapes (巨峰) and Yamagata tomatoes
3) peaches and Miyazaki purple sweet potatoes (紫いも)
4) la France (ラ フランス a Japanese pear of French origin) and Hokkaido pumpkin (かぼちゃ)
http://www.kagome.co.jp/gift/summergift/index.html
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UCC is giving away Tokyo Disney Resort tickets in two rounds of a summer promotion. Entry is by proof of purchase attached to a postcard.
http://www.ucc.co.jp/tdr_summer/
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For the Summer season, MOS Burger is offering an "overflowing with vegetables" burger, the MOS Vegetable Burger (モス野菜バーガー), which uses only Japanese vegetables.
http://www.mos.co.jp/cp/yasai/120619/
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Burger King has introduced Summer Cool Colors drinks for the hot weather. There are 4 varieties: iced matcha latte, berry berries, mango & banana, and Irish lemonade. Japanese in general are less eager to buy food with bright artificial colors, but sometimes foreign companies come in and surprise the local companies.
http://www.burgerkingjapan.co.jp/campaign/cp57.html
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Kagome is holding a Vegeranger campaign using the popular girl group AK48 to promote Yasaiichinichikoreippon (野菜一日これ一本 "One drink, one day's worth of vegetable") drink. There is a special app where you can collect "cards" featuring AK48 members and there is a chance for one of 8 different figurines, featuring members of AK48 as Vegerangers, an obvious take on the various ranger action figures which are popular in Japan.
http://koreichi.jp/#/campaign
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Excelsior Caffe is offering a limited summer frozen drink, Premium Frozen Matcha Cream Azuki, which contains matcha from Uji, sweet azuki beans from Hokkaido and cream.
http://www.doutor.co.jp/exc/menu/recommend.html?slide=3
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McDonald's is holding a "Hamburger Expedition" event for parent-child pairs over the summer holidays. Winners of the drawing will spend time at the McDonald's Chicken Studio in Shinjuku, Tokyo to learn about hamburger nutrition and the secrets of hamburger flavor. They will also learn how and experience making hamburgers and using the McDonald's preparation tools in what I assume is a mock store kitchen.
Local McDonalds stores in Japan have held similar events for many years. Great fun for the kids.
http://www.mcdonalds.co.jp/community/ne_mc_support/event/index.html
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Meiji has introduced a dairy based sesamin and omega 3 containing drink sold exclusively through their home delivery network. It is called Ikiiki Sesamin, or roughly "full of life sesamin". It advertises that every serving contains the equivalent sesamin (a polyphenol) as is contained in 800 sesame seeds as well as added DHA/EPA from tuna.
http://takuhaimeiji.jp/commodity/sesamin.html
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