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As in any country you will have your very own Linda Barker such as we do in England. This is a person (normally fresh from a reality show or a minor celeb) who will sell anything and everything including their own grandmother if the price is right. Of course Japan has it`s own fair share of these and due to the incredible slow news day/week I am experiencing, I thought I`d go through a few.

This is Bae yong joon. He is Korean. I am thinking of devoting an entire future post to him. He was the main character in a daytime Korean soap opera that was exported to Japan and hugely popular with middle aged housewives. A recent visit by the great one provoked stampedes and handbags at twenty paces between the middle aged fans outside a hotel he was staying at. Look at the woman screaming bottom right. This man is perhaps the king of ad whores. He sells chewing gum, sony video cameras, cars and nutrition drinks with mimimal conviction and smarmy smile despite chubby face, specs and similar Japanese ability to myself. He is now quite literally rolling in money. This man is (begrudgingly) therefore a genius.

This is Masahiro Nakai. He is one fifth of the omnipresent boyband SMAP. Thanks to clever placement by their management team you will see one of them somewhere at various ponts of your day. Watch as he gasps with near orgasmic satisfaction after eating the rubbery noodles, watch him switch effortlessly between coffee commercials to chocolate ads. Imagine him counting his fat payments from these companies with hideous laugh and evil leer. Git.

This is Akai Hidekazu an ex-boxer who has his own light entertainment television programme and a lucrative sideline in the ads such as house removals, television companies and the like. Watch as his smiley face turns into a frozen grimace of fear and remark that as a professional boxer he could quite literally beat you to a small paste if he finds out you are insulting him. Damn..