tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-126162042011-04-21T12:50:33.968-07:00wataowataohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11029177434810621635noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12616204.post-1115884068336744032005-05-12T00:40:00.000-07:002005-05-12T01:02:23.403-07:00<span style="font-size:130%;">Mainichi Daily, a major newspaper in Japan, <a href="http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20050512p2a00m0dm009000c.html">reported</a> Shiseido's discriminative advertisement as a top story on Thursday.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12616204-111588406833674403?l=hairlosersalliance.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>wataowataohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11029177434810621635noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12616204.post-1115117073879756952005-05-03T03:43:00.000-07:002005-05-04T20:39:27.236-07:00<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:130%;">Internet users in </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><st1:country-region><st1:place><span lang="EN-US">Japan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:130%;"> found on Monday that Shiseido, an international cosmetic company, was posting some discriminative statements on its Japanese website. The statements were deleted shortly after their offensiveness was pointed out by some viewers.<br /><br /><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:130%;">The discriminative statements were found on <a href="http://www.shiseido.co.jp/e/">Shiseido's website</a> for promoting its new hair-growth product, Adenogen. The website contained a "report" saying "Losing hair is not only your own problem. Your descendants will also suffer because of your bald gene." with the illustration of a family tree. The website also contained another "report" saying "The statistics show that your way up the ladder of promotion will stop at the section-head level if you are bald. Only non-bald people can obtain a seat on the board of directors."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51353495@N00/12137426/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://photos9.flickr.com/12137426_ca71a93785_o.gif" alt="shiseido03" height="460" width="686" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51353495@N00/12137427/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://photos8.flickr.com/12137427_21d1e972a9_o.gif" alt="shiseido06" height="460" width="686" /></a><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:130%;">Internet users in </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><st1:country-region><st1:place><span lang="EN-US">Japan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:130%;"> (especially bald ones, of course) are furious with these discriminative statements. One of them says, "No hair-growth product, including Adenogen, works at genetic level. So according to Shiseido's logic, hair losers should not have children. Is Shiseido encouraging social Darwinism?"<br /><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:130%;">No comments have been made by Shiseido concerning this issue so far.<br /><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:130%;">Official Website of HAGE-Japan (in Japanese)<br /><a href="http://drive.kakiko.com/2ch/news/shiseido.HTML">http://drive.kakiko.com/2ch/news/shiseido.HTML</a><br /></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12616204-111511707387975695?l=hairlosersalliance.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>wataowataohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11029177434810621635noreply@blogger.com0