Orange Day campaign kicks off

Next month on 14th will be 'Buy a Renault Day'

Everyone buys a car... ok ! ok !? ok ?

blahhh... at least I tried...

(my cat is asking for a 'clean my litter day', to whom must she forward the request for officialisation ?)

 

As silly and blatantly mercantile as this is, I can see this catching on, because this sort of canned gesture is exactly what young, emotionally-stunted, communicationally-challenged Japanese need to be able to express themselves. Eventually they may do one of these every month, one for each time your average J-couple bangs.

 

I agree. The Japanese consumer is, on average, quite unsophisticated and unable to see through marketing blitzes and twists of meaning (think Valentine's), so I think it will catch on.

 

In his continual bid to make foreign residents feel more at ease in Japan, Shinzo Abe has tried to lobby for 14th May to be made 'Love a Gaijin Day'. Local residents are encouraged to kiss a foreigner they see on the streets that day, or give a present to their foreign colleagues at the workplace, children are encouraged to stop bullying their foreign school-mates on that day, and illegal immigrants will be entered in a visa-lottery on that day.

The service sector, including select bars and onsens are rushing to order special 'foreigners welcome' signs to replace 'no foreigners' sign on their doors, but so far, most landlords interviewed in a poll have expressed no interest in the campaign.

 

"The Japanese consumer is, on average, quite unsophisticated and unable to see through marketing blitzes and twists of meaning (think Valentine's), so I think it will catch on."

What?

The Japanese, on average, are incredibly open-minded.
It is the western world that is emotionally stunted.

Where else but Japan can the same people celebrate a Christian holiday at Christmas, visit a Shinto shrine on New Years Eve and then a Bhuddhist Shrine on New Years Day without getting shot at, abused or riduculed?

Sushi

 

They don't 'celebrate' Xmas or other holidays, they consume them. It's not open-minded, it's simply an expression of their ability to take something foreign and create their own shallow take on it. It doesn't really matter to me how they celebrate foreign holidays, but you'll never convince me that they do it out of anything but a glancing interest in the culture it came from.

 

"The Japanese, on average, are incredibly open-minded. It is the western world that is emotionally stunted."

Orange day = Buy oranges or orange colored gifts

It seems rather simplistic to me...not very open minded, I don't need a day to tell me to buy oranges.

 

I like that you can buy holiays in Japan! Go Sunkist! Next year we will have adult diaper day, purchased by Depends. Yay!!! Stupidity!!!!

 

Inoue-chan could sell oranges to me any day (She could sell me ANYTHING for that matter. . just give me that smile, and I would be weak in the knees).

As far as the "fake" or "canned" holidays. . maybe they just like to have a little something to celebrate. Of course, the citrus market came up with the idea, but if the people go for it, then what is the harm?

 

Now, if whomever thought of the idea stood there while people could whip oranges at them, I would buy into it. For now, though, I'm still laughing heartily about the very proposition. Stupid idea!

 

is what it should be called. On this day you have to give one to your loved one.

 

or coule be a result of orange day. BUT today I saw a guy and girl walking together and both were wearing orange. Thing is, dude had an orange hand bag and orange shoes. The girl had orange shirt. Perhaps it's coincidence or maybe they exchanged orange colored clothes yesterday.

The hand bag on dude was a strange sight though.

 

i would normally have bought oranges...
but now hte price is going to shoot up for two or three weeks around this 'event'...
sucks for you if your favorite color is orange...
oh, and by the way, take the religion out of holidays... if orange day involved everyone buying presents ad getting together with their friends and family, it would be way better than X-mas. and only atheists are allowed.

 

I love Oranges.

They're certainly much better all round - environmentally, nutritionally and olfactorily than chocolate, about which I couldn't care less.

But oranges are yum.

And I would be very happy to give Waka Inoue one.

 

For me, Orange Day is every day. I eat lots of delicious foreign oranges all year round, and Japanese mikan when they are in season. I dont need this utter nonsense - a sheer ploy to try to get Japanese people to spend more money in shops.
What next? Pink Day? The only way I would get excited about this is if they made it another National Holiday.