Machine
Marketing
Mass communication
Material (sozai)
Mathematical Model
Merchandising
Mobile
Mode
Mono(Japanese for "thing")
Multimedia
Marketing
While the actual venue of exchanging merchandises between the seller and buyer is called the market&sbquo the act of making those various exchanges is called marketing. Marketing indicates the general business activity in the market. The phrase "marketing research&sbquo" for example&sbquo represents the structure of product distribution for manufacturers and suppliers of the products&sbquo and indicates actions and measures for the overall trend not only in products but also market&sbquo product&sbquo sales&sbquo services&sbquo distribution&sbquo advertisements and consumption incentives. As to the activities of corporations who are manufacturers and suppliers&sbquo marketing itself is the core of their business activities. The relationship between production and consumption as described above has been the basic picture of making so far&sbquo but this has been changing in our information society&sbquo and the transformation and alteration of the structure of marketing is taking place. Furthermore&sbquo it is necessary to integrate recycling and environmental measures with the marketing structure&sbquo and demand that unprecedented concepts and action policies (regarding products and the environment&sbquo services and the environment&sbquo and advertisement and the environment) be deeply involved in information gathering and analysis of market trends. For this purpose&sbquo methods of marketing?徨elated information manipulation is being developed&sbquo although that proves that the products themselves have already become the media. That is&sbquo in our information society&sbquo marketing can be seen as an information business activity. Design for marketing is&sbquo therefore&sbquo an important means to achieve communication.