Word: morinaga
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...felt that Cupid brought the blues, not because of a lack of dates but because of all the preparation involved. That would include, for example, standing in line for half an hour in the freezing cold to get their hands on that $55 box of four chocolate bonbons. Morinaga, a leading chocolate maker, has research showing that an increasing number of women in their 20s are now fighting the chocolate mission creep by making their own treats instead...
...beef by mid-February. Gyudon aficionados rushed the counters, and sales jumped 10% from the previous month. Now the company concedes it might buy domestic or Australian beef, even though its prices would rise. It's a risky move-but nothing will deter the true gyudon addicts, says Takuro Morinaga, a Tokyo-based economist and beef-bowl fan: "I'd gladly pay more for the Yoshinoya taste...
...typewritten letter was neatly addressed to "Moms of the Nation" and signed Kaijin 21 Menso, the Man with 21 Faces. The message, sent to Osaka news agencies, warned that 20 packages of Morinaga candy had been laced with deadly sodium cyanide and placed on supermarket shelves. Within days police had scoured stores from Tokyo to cities in western Japan, and found more than a dozen of the lethal packets of Morinaga Choco-Balls and Angel Pie, apparently before anyone was poisoned...
...appearance of the poisoned candy was the latest in a series of extortion attempts aimed at two of Japan's major confectioners, Morinaga & Co., Ltd., and Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd. Katsuhisa Ezaki, Ezaki Glico's president, was kidnaped last March at his home near Osaka. He escaped three days later from an abandoned warehouse. His captors remained at large and announced two months later that they had put poisoned Ezaki Glico products in the nation's supermarkets. No tainted sweets were found, but authorities cleared shelves of all Ezaki Glico candy. The company lost at least...
...news service, Dentsu did not shift into advertising in earnest until the mid-1930s. The caliber of that era's ads is summed up in a Dentsu candy promotion, which showed the silhouette of a Japanese bomber over China under the headline: EVEN OUR WILD EAGLES TAKE ALONG MORINAGA CARAMEL ON BOMBING RUNS...