Starbucks Discoveries Paris

Starbucks has released the latest addition to its RTD coffee brand Discoveries with Paris. The drink follows the recent trend towards bitter flavours and is not sweetened.

Clorets HOT

Cadbury's Clorets chewing gums now come in Spicy Cinnamon as well.

Lotte Beni

Lotte's new health and energy drink Beni is targeted at women.

Face mask goes fashion

Unicharm has released a new face mask in its successful Rittai series specifically targeted at women and teamed up with the online community site Girlsgate to provide tips on a face mask as the ultimate fashion accessoire.

Hello Kitty

Interestingly, the world's first Hello Kitty Jet. Interestingly, the plane is not operated by a Japanese airline, but Eva Air from Taiwan, where Hello Kitty appears to be even bigger than in Japan.

Hello Kitty is everywhere on board of this plane - including of course the welcome video, where she can be seen doing a somewhat un-Japanese dance.

Vegetable Yogurt

Otsuka is trying to establish a completely new product category - vegetable yogurts - with Yasai no Senshi.

Suntory goes mint

Suntory has released Cool Mint Cider, a mint-flavoured soft drink developed in cooperation with Lotte's Cool Mint chewing gum brand.

Pro Tec Head

Lion has released a new hair-care line for men called PRO TEC HEAD, which consists of four products and offers a new care system to revent hair loss and thinning.