Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Japanese Ballplayers

One of the advantages of having a Japanese ballplayer on your team is the ability to sell advertisements to the Japanese. The Japanese are so crazy for coverage of American ballplayers, advertisers get exposed to the entire island of Japan.

Behind the Rays hitters, on the backstop, was an advertisement for Dandy House, at http://www.dandy-house.co.jp/. All the text on the backstop, other than the Web address, was in Japanese, so it was not possible for me to know what kind of business it is.

Through separate research I've learned it is a "men's day spa." I guess it makes sense that it's called Dandy House. Going to the Web site won't help you, as it is also entirely in Japanese. Most of the language is in picture format, so it can't be automatically translated, but here are some phrases I got from the text translation:

Triple burning body method
Self-depreciation dehairing (design dehairing)
Face slim

The triple burning body method, probably not legal in the U.S., is illustrated solely in Flash format.  You'll just have to see it yourself.  Suffice to say it is a weight loss method.

The "dehairing" is obvious, though not very eloquently stated.  Why call a place "Dandy" and then use a term like "dehairing"?  Anyway, it looks painful to me. Like they'll pull your whole face off:



How about face slimming? Here's some info about it:
The cog and the cheek which do not have the wasteful surplus fat are the important point in order to show to the sharp feeling which will be the whole face clear.Because of that the Hollywood star where “the face” is the commodity in order to maintain the sharp face line, has regularly used healing the face and the [se] from several dozen years ago.Please try looking at the mirror again.Haven't the sag of the cheek, the solid seeing and the double cog of the face started? As for the one which becomes matter of concern please try this healing which by all means, the dandy house in Japan introduces for the first time from Hollywood.