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Puffy Ami Yumi are the newest faces of the Yokoso! Japan campaign, which was set up in 2002 in an attempt to address the huge difference between the number of Japanese visiting other countries to the number of tourists who come here. According to the official website (link), 16 million Japanese go abroad every year, but only 5 million of us foreign folk repay the favour.

Its always a good idea to cash in on the few Japanese who are famous overseas, and dress them up accordingly :

This was the biggest picture I could find of the poster - although, while I was hunting I found something which is more far more entertaining; Junichiro Koizumi’s very own Yokoso! Japan video. (Link.)

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006 Japan, Japanese News Trackback URL for this entry