Japanese Recruitment Video

[Hedley Lamarr]

The Japanese navy created a TV ad in February to encourage enlistments and public support for its mission of sending security troops to Iraq. In the spot, according to a Reuters reporter, seven actors dressed, Village People-like, as sailors dancing on the deck of a ship, singing (roughly translated), "Nippon Seaman Ship, Seaman Shipo, For Love ... For Peace" and "I Love Japan, I Love Peace, The Maritime Self-Defense Force." (The ad is needed, said a senior officer, because "there are a lot of young people and women who don't seem interested (in the navy).") [Reuters, 2-26-04]

View the video at:

http://www.jda.go.jp/JMSDF/event/cm_p/index.html

[no1cardfan]

ummm, wow. I'm speechless. That was the wierdest thing I've seen in a while...