Japan has an unlikely array of its own kangaroo logos, from delivery and construction companies to sports teams and care services. Find out more about them here.
日本には、宅配や建設会社からスポーツチーム、介護サービスまで、意外なほど多くのカンガルー・ロゴがあります。ここでその魅力を詳しく紹介します
Kangaroo-do K.K. has bagged itself a position as a position as a mall retailer mainly in regional areas, but also in some shopping centers. It shouldn’t really come as a surprise because Kangaroo-do’s business is bags, which it sells from low price offerings to quality accessories from brands such as Porter and Dakota. Kangaroo-do hasn’t…
Kangaroo House is a group home facility in Kaizuka, Osaka Prefecture, that aims to make everyone a hero. Kangaroo House is operated by Cangaroo K.K. It is registered as a residential support service for people with intellectual, mental, or physical disabilities. It’s hard to track down information on this Kangaroo House, a name given to…
Kangaroo House in Kyoto is a free school for kids who don’t want to attend formal classes and named because of a child’s whisper “to be a kangaroo so I can hide in Mum’s pocket,” according to a report on the organization. Kangaroo House got its name from a child’s remark: “If I were a…
Kangaroo K.K.–a Yokohama startup named after Australia’s national animal–wants its clients to “bound, not lounge.” And it even picks office scents to help them. Kangaroo says it chose its company name and symbol because the kangaroo is a model of efficient, powerful leaping using the ground’s force with physiology that lets it “jump far while…
Melburnian Suliana Tesi Nakamura looks to be doing very nicely operating Kangaroo K.K., an English conversation school and real estate business located in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, where she has lived since 2011. Aussie Nakamura’s choice of the kangaroo for her company and logo is pretty bloody obvious, and a logical choice for the woman who…
Kangaroos K.K. operates a handful of different businesses, none of them with a direct relationship with either Australia or marsupials, but there’re are plenty of peas in this macropod. The company operates a mix of social-service, education and community businesses, including foreign-worker support and recruiting; staffing and temporary placement especially for childcare, education and welfare;…
Kangaroos are the choice of a company symbol for packaging-materials trading company Kawawa Co., Ltd. from Nagareyama, Chiba Prefecture. Kawawa chose to use a kangaroo to symbolize their operations because it represents “the spirit of wrapping,” according to the company’s website. Although the company has nothing to do with Australia, it chose to represent itself…
Kangaroos have provided a way to provide a friendly face for a company operating in an industry sometimes seen as an unsavory business in Japan. Enomoto Kogyo uses the consumer-facing name of Kaitai Kangaroo for its demolition business; a line of work many Japanese associate with seediness and ties to organized crime. It’s an issue…
Automaker Nissan Motor Co. has long used kangaroos in its advertising, particularly in the early 2010s and notably when enlisting the aid of technopop girl group Perfume, which was then at the peak of its popularity. Nissan stylized Perfume’s three members–Kashiyuka, A-chan and Nocchi–as pink kangaroos to promote its Serena, Note and Cube models. Perfume…
When I first arrived in Japan amid the bubble era one of the things that struck me most was the ubiquitous presence of kangaroos adorning mostly car spare tire covers on the back of 4WD vehicles. They were an unexpected sign of Australia at a time when the world seemed much larger. For the almost…
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