Hirosaki Mayoral Election posters

Anthony Rausch of Hirosaki University kindly reports:

"there are two candidates running, the incumbent Kanazawa (male, 72 years old, jimin, with suisen from komei and shiji from shamin) and Shimoda (female 63, most famous around here for being the riji of a private junior college). If I noticed correctly, she had the number one spot on the election poster boards - her poster is simply a face-shot - I will have to look at what she is wearing and what sort of background there is - as well as what slogan she is using. Kanazawa's poster shows him, full-body standing about 15-20 degrees off face-center to the camera."

The methodology gap

This morning Francesco Vitucci, my PhD student working on international marketing, told me a lot of things I didn't know about the role of culture in marketing. He also said:

"In Italy we are deductive whereas in England you are inductive. That's why we didn't understand each other for one year."

Fuchû Mayoral Election posters

Two very simple candidate posters. Tadanao Noguchi's simply states "Tadanao Noguchi for mayor", while Mitsue Kanazashi's bears the slogan "let's change Fuchû together". Kanazashi's poster also shows that she is backed by the "Group For A Woman Mayor."