Jenny Talks About Life in Japan

A commercial for Seiyu (Walmart Japan) that has been airing a lot on Japanese TV recently:

Jenny, a resident of Japan, is visiting her family back in her unspecified country of origin. Dad asks her how she’s enjoying her life in Japan, and she breaks down, complaining about how she cannot shop at Japanese supermarkets whenever she likes. Meat, eggs, frozen food, and other items are cheap on separate days of the week! (But she’s wrong: it’s not like that at Seiyu, where prices are low all the time.)

—

Akihabara News – Gadgetry from Japan (Subscribe)
Dannychoo.com – Your portal to Japan (Subscribe)

8 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - August 22, 2011 at 7:35 am

Categories: Foreigners in Japan, Japanese TV Tags:

Hraesvelgr

Non-Japanese families talk to each other in Japanese all the time.
http://www.facebook.com/hemanto.raj Hemanth Raj

Who are the target audience for this ad anyway?
If it is the non-Japanese, then by being condescending they are not helping their cause. Also, anyone who doesn’t understand the grocery store discount system would not get this ad anyway.
If it is the Japanese, then the point is being made in a very roundabout way.
Oh for the days when dancing cartoon characters used to hawk stuff..

Paul Michael Doherty

I don’t “understand the grocery store discount system” in Japan. Am I missing something?

Jum

There are discounts in Japan?

Lord Metroid

The price on fresh products like fish decreases with the house of the day.

Jum

Yeah but which decrease are we talking about? Most of the time the discounts are ridiculous.

Comment

Jenny should probably seek the help of a licensed mental health care professional as soon as possible.
Bernician

Is it just me or does her home country seem to be the 1970s?

Jenny Talks About Life in Japan

Recent Comments

Further Reading

Bikini Atoll: Lessons For Fukushima?

Complaints From Loony Parents Cancel Event: Okinawan Children Not Allowed to Play With “Radioactive” Aomori Snow

Remembering the International Media’s Post-Fukushima Hysteria: Radiation Scare Stories Ignored Real Victims of 3/11

A Look Inside Osaka Prison

Dead Shark Found in Yoyogi Park

Japanese Fart Battle Scroll

Dinosaurs Wear Traditional Japanese Clothing

Canada Rejects Refugee Application From Japanese Who Feared Radiation

Ishinomaki: Then & Now

Radioactive Seafood? Miyagi Fishing Industry Works to Prove Safety of Their Fish

Categories

Archives

Subscribe

Japan Blogs

Korea Blogs

Linkroll

Other Asia Blogs