2013
1. Tokyo Skytree
2. Hybrid cars
3. Smartphones
4.
Robot cleaners
5. Vehicle collision prevention systems
2012
1. Smartphones
2. Tokyo Skytree
3. SNSs such
as Facebook that require real name registration
4. Robot cleaners
5.
Salted rice malt
2011
1. Smartphones
2. LED light bulbs
3. Tokyo
Skytree
4. Nadeshiko Japan (the Japan women’s national football
team who won the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup Germany™ tournament)
5.
AKB48 (48-member all-girl theater/idol group with its own theater in
Akihabara, Tokyo)
2010
1. Smartphones
2. Twitter
3. Munchable chili
oil
4. Digital broadcasting-equipped widescreen flat-panel TVs
5.
Ryoma Sakamoto (1836–1867; popular historical figure and visionary who
played a key role in bringing about the Meiji Restoration. “The
Legend of Ryoma” TV drama series also became a hit this year.)
2009
1. Hybrid vehicles
2. Flu masks
3. Low-priced
domestic fashions
4. Vehicles eligible for tax reductions and eco
vehicle purchasing subsidies
5. Eco-point energy-saving home
appliances
2008
1. Innovative remote-controlled TV games
2. Gake
no Ue no Ponyo (Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea)
3. Digital
broadcasting-equipped widescreen flat-panel televisions
4. Bargain
products (private brand products/outlet malls)
5. Touch pen
portable games
2007
1. Touch pen portable games
2. Innovative
remote-controlled TV games
3. Billy’s BootCamp™
4.
Digital cameras
5. Widescreen flat-panel televisions
2006
1. Brain training products
2. Widescreen
flat-panel televisions
3. The Da Vinci Code
4.
HDD-equipped DVD recorders
5. High-performance portable game
machines
2005
1. Portable digital audio players
2. HDD-equipped
DVD recorders
3. Blogs
4. Widescreen flat-panel televisions
5.
Agar weed gelatin
2004
1. Widescreen flat panel televisions
2. Japanese
baseball players in the U.S. Major League
3. Crying Out for
Love, from the Center of the World (Sekai no Chushin de, Ai wo Sakebu,
novel, movie, and TV drama)
4. HDD-equipped DVD recorders
5.
Black vinegar
[About the Dentsu Group]
Dentsu is the world’s largest advertising agency brand. Led by Dentsu Inc. (Tokyo: 4324; ISIN: JP3551520004), a company with a history of 113 years of innovation, the Dentsu Group provides a comprehensive range of client-centric brand, integrated communications, media and digital services through its eight global network brands—Carat, Dentsu, Dentsu media, iProspect, Isobar, mcgarrybowen, Posterscope and Vizeum—as well as through its specialist/multi-market brands including Amnet, Amplifi, Data2Decisions, Mitchell Communications (PR), psLIVE and 360i.
The Dentsu Group has a strong presence in 124 countries across five
continents, and employs around 40,000 dedicated professionals. Dentsu
Aegis Network Ltd., its global business headquarters in London, oversees
Dentsu’s agency operations outside of Japan. The Group is also active in
the production and marketing of sports and entertainment content on a
global scale.
www.dentsu.com
Contact:
Dentsu Inc.
Shusaku Kannan, (813) 6216-8042
Senior Manager
Corporate
Communications Division
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