{"id":758,"date":"2010-09-13T10:24:49","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T10:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/?p=758"},"modified":"2010-09-14T10:33:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T10:33:20","slug":"japanese-soft-drinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/japanese-soft-drinks\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Soft Drinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The soft drink market in Japan is huge, and so is the money invested in soft drink commercials. Here are my favorite soft drinks and their respective commercials.<\/p>\n<p>Calpis (<strong>\u30ab\u30eb\u30d4<\/strong><strong>\u30b9<\/strong>) is a milky white soft drink. I love this commercial because it\u2019s funny. The girl is acting out a dialogue where she pretends she is talking to the person she likes. Watch what happens:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D3WT31Vfl3g\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D3WT31Vfl3g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oronamin \u00a0C Drink (<strong>\u30aa\u30ed\u30ca\u30df\u30f3<\/strong><strong>C<\/strong><strong>\u30c9\u30ea\u30f3<\/strong><strong>\u30af<\/strong>) is a carbonated health drink. The Oronamin C Drink commercials often feature Japanese star Aya Ueto (<strong>\u4e0a\u6238<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>\u5f69<\/strong>) like in this funny commercial :<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZdMa-tkEQPg\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZdMa-tkEQPg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pocari Sweat (<strong>\u30dd\u30ab\u30ea\u30b9\u30a8\u30c3<\/strong><strong>\u30c8<\/strong>) is a sports drink. The commercials for Pocari Sweat often feature someone who engages in strenuous physical activity and drinks Pocari Sweat to cool off :<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IYh_SacotHk\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IYh_SacotHk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope you\u2019ve enjoyed watching these commercials. You know, watching Japanese commercials can help you understand the nuances of a culture, like what\u2019s considered funny, or what\u2019s considered politically correct. In some cases, you don\u2019t have to know a lot of Japanese to know what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The soft drink market in Japan is huge, and so is the money invested in soft drink commercials. Here are my favorite soft drinks and their respective commercials. Calpis (\u30ab\u30eb\u30d4\u30b9) is a milky white soft drink. I love this commercial because it\u2019s funny. The girl is acting out a dialogue where she pretends she is&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/japanese-soft-drinks\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11382],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-japanese-soft-drinks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}