Original message cards are sure to bring a smile to the face of anyone who loves bargains.
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The open road might tempt you to step on the gas, but being so far from traffic means you’re far from something else too.
If it’s your first time going through Japan’s busiest train station, this “helpful” sign might not make things much easier.
Model/celebrity finds confusing sign telling us to do, or not do, something involving small cats and big shoes.
Swing by this lovely town and enjoy “five times bonus points” as promised by one of their signs.
Pfft, a ladies’ room is going to need more than 11 signs and an audio warning on a continuous loop to keep me out.
Forget putting the fear of God into someone; this graveside sign calls on spirits to ensure people mind their manners.
If you’ve ever walked the streets of Tokyo, you’ll know how the buzz of people, street signs and giant screens can heighten all your senses and fill you with a rush of excitement that stays with you well after you’ve returned back home. While travel brochure photos can never truly prepare you for the dense onslaught of visual and aural stimuli that envelop you when you visit the megalopolis, one creative photographer has come up with a clever way of highlighting the main features of the city by showing us just how bare the city landscape looks without them there.
Come with us as we take a walk through day and night in Tokyo and see just how different the place looks when the neon signs and billboards are taken away. You’ll never see Tokyo in quite the same way again.
In the wake of the protests in the US over the controversial Ferguson decision and subsequently President Obama’s unfortunate choice of words galvanizing anti-immigration sentiments in Japan, the Chinese are facing a racism scandal of their own, but this time by their own people.
A Beijing store recently came under fire when they hung a sign outside of their shop proclaiming: “Chinese not admitted. Staff excluded.” Just so we’re clear, this is in China.
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