Broza Photo Art Raffle to Benefit Japan

If you are in Southern California this week, please join us at Watermans, Hermosa Beach on Thursday, April 14th at 8PM for Broza Photo Art Raffle to benefit the Japan Disaster Relief Effort.

A $15 donation will get you entry, a raffle ticket and a drink ticket. A portion of the proceeds at the door will be donated to benefit the Japan Disaster Relief Effort.

Brent Broza will be showing some framed canvas & bamboo art pieces along with a slideshow throughout the evening. Later in the evening, all of the art pieces will be raffled off. That means anyone with an entry raffle ticket has a chance to win a piece. You must be present to win! Additional raffle tickets are $5. There will be cool giveaways from Body Glove, DVS, Matix & Sector 9 too! Body Glove will be at the Body Glove table selling the Hand in Hand For Japan T-shirts with all proceeds going to the relief effort.

Hope to see you there to support a great cause, a great country and amazing people.

To see a video with Alex Gray talking about the Japan Relief Effort go to tv.bodyglove.com.

Body Glove Hand In Hand for Japan

The March 11th earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan has turned out to be the worst in recent history. The hard-hit areas do not have enough food, water electricity or heat and now they have the fear and consequences of nuclear fallout. Body Glove has a long and proud history with Japan and its amazing people, and now is the time to give back. We are proud to offer the Hand in Hand Disaster Relief T-Shirt, that can be purchased online at the Body Glove Online Store. 100% of the proceeds from the sale of the Hand In Hand T-Shirt will be donated to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. We love, we love, we love Japan. Please help support them in this time of need.

Check out the Body Glove Hand in Hand for Japan Site

Body Glove Japan Photoshoot

Photoshoot for Body Glove Japan surf wear with Body Glove surf team manager, Matt "Chewy" Chernega.

Ken The Flattop Pinstripes Body Glove Wetsuit

Body Glove Japan has a piece running in "Blue" magazine with Pinstriper Ken The Flattop. It was done with their "Secret Spot" sponsor, "VADO".

Check out the video of him at work also.

Fine Magazine Ad-Japan

Body Glove Japan apparel and wetsuit ads for FINE magazine.

Body Glove Japan Website

Check out the Body Glove Japan website.  Go to www.bodyglove.jp

Body Glove Japan Advertising

New ad for Surfin' Life

New ad for Blue Magazine

Body Glove Wetsuit Ad-Japan

Ad created by our Japan office for Surfin' Life magazine.

Body Glove Country-Japan Advertising

Yugo Harada and Matt Walden from Body Glove Japan are doing a great job over in Japan in keeping the Body Glove brand moving forward.  They are currently doing a campaign title "THIS IS BODY GLOVE COUNTRY,"  basing the theme off the rich history of the brand.  Body Glove Japan also offers a retro looking wetsuit with the Original Body Glove logo on it.  When we were down in Japan last year we saw a lot of those in the water.  Good work to the Body Glove Japan crew.  Keep it up.

Ad for Blue Magazine

Ad for Glide Magazine

Japanese Economy Shows Signs of Slowing, Australian Retail Sales Soften

As reported on shop-eat-surf.com: August 5, 2008

Economists are watching Japan closely after the country’s unemployment rate rose and household spending fell in June.

The jobless rate rose to 4.1 percent, the highest level in nearly two years. At the same time, household spending fell 1.8 percent, the fourth monthly drop, Bloomberg news reported. And retail sales fell 3.3 percent in June vs. June 2007 when adjusted for inflation.

Japan’s export market has also taken a hit as consumer spending slows in other parts of the world. Exports, which helped lead Japan out of a recession in 2002, fell last month for the first time in more than four years.

Those recent reports lead economists to believe Japan’s economy contracted in the second quarter.

``Japan is on the verge of a recession,'' Yoshiki Shinke, a senior economist at Dai-Ichi Life Research Institute in Tokyo, told Bloomberg. ``Consumer spending may not remain strong enough to prop up the economy.''

The Bank of Japan, responsible for the country’s monetary policy, said the economy is slowing further because of weak business investment and consumer spending.

Elsewhere in the Asia/Pacific region, Australia retail sales unexpectedly fell 1 percent in June.

For the second quarter, retail sales dropped 0.6 percent after falling 0.3 percent in the first quarter.

This is the first back-to-back, quarterly decline in retail sales since 1996, according Westpac Institutional Bank.

In the second quarter, the sharpest decline in retail sales came from the department store, clothing, and hospitality and services sectors.

For the third quarter, Westpac expects retail sales to get a boost from tax cuts and an easing of fuel prices. However, the bank predicts consumer spending to be weak into the second half of 2008 and well into 2009.

Tyler Smith In Surfin Life Magazine

Here is Tyler Smith in a spread for a story titled "Winter Monsters" in Japan's Surfin Life. Thanks Yugo for sending this in.

BODY GLOVE RETRO JAPAN

Part of a retro ad campaign that Body Glove Japan is running. Their aim is to target the guys who surfed and lived the lifestyle back in the days and grew up with Body Glove. There is a big audience in Japan who love the retro stuff and don't have access to view it. So BGJ is bringing it to them. To go with the campaign they offer a line of retro suits and when we were there last year they were all over the beach. Good job to George, Matt and Yugo over at the BGJ offices. Keep up the good work.

BODY GLOVE JAPAN AD

New ad created by Body Glove Japan for FINE magazine.  Good work Yugo.