Japanese Naval Recruitment Commercials: Better Than Your Naval Recuitment Commercials
Posted by Ross Rosenberg
The U.S. Navy would do well to take note of these commercials. While they subject us to Keith David narrating footage of damp Navy personnel doing their best to look grim and determined and not, say, constipated to the melodious grunting of generic Nü Metal the Japanese have taken a different and, perhaps, more efficient tact. Aware that the public at large is aware that war is a serious undertaking, the Japanese Maritime Defense Force entices recruits by making you feel that by enlisting you too can be part of a crack force of anime superheroes, prepared to protect your homeland. Or you can be part of a dance troupe specializing in synchronized hip gyrations. Whichever floats your boat, so to speak.
Join the Japanese Navy [YouTube] : ectochat : Thanks, nic0!
Categories: War, Anime, Ectochat, Ads, Japan
Posted at 11:27 am on March 5, 2008
8 Comments -
Actually, dancing in formation on deck and striking dramatic poses is all we still let the Japanese Navy do these days.
Comment by Rit — March 5, 2008 @ 2:30 pm
No wonder they want to kill Whales.
Comment by Sharky — March 5, 2008 @ 2:50 pm
Sign me up.
Comment by zamstar — March 5, 2008 @ 4:24 pm
I’m guessing that “seamen” doesn’t have the same double entendre in Japanese as it does in English.
Comment by Peregrine — March 6, 2008 @ 10:07 am
Well it sounded like English to me. Maybe thats part of the appeal?
Comment by Hlaode — March 6, 2008 @ 12:36 pm
Well it sounded like English to me. Maybe thats part of the appeal? I think thats what they did in this country a while back.
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/213640
Comment by Hlaode — March 6, 2008 @ 12:37 pm
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I don’t get this. When I used to hang out with Japanese Navy officers and their wives in 1970, they were staid as all getout. All lace curtains and white gloves.
Comment by Mogo the Mugger — March 9, 2008 @ 11:32 pm