I love J-copies

[Taro Toporific]

I just love the way copies are made cheerfully in Japan. In this case, "I Love New Tokyo" which is copy of the old "I Love NY" campaign. Above is a shot of one of the zillion posters that fill Tokyo's Yamamote Line offering a grand prize to ringside seats to the next grand sumo tournament in Tokyo as seen below.

Of course the real purpose of "I Love New Tokyo" is not civic pride---it is to promote the new "Tokyo Towers" mega project of downtown condos (prices start at $1.2 million USD for a very small 80sqm 2 bedroom).

[Taro Toporific]

Oh and here's the "I Love New Tokyo" banner on silk being paraded before the start of a sumo.

Visit the vile Flash-infested LoveNewTokyo.com website all in Japanese.

[FG Lurker]

Visit the vile Flash-infested LoveNewTokyo.com website all in Japanese.

There's English there Taro! Well, Engrish anyway:

Please imagine Tokyo for you.....
Will you experience new Tokyo LIFE with together.
Do you Love TOKYO ?

Very "international" of them.

[Mulboyne]

Of course the real purpose of "I Love New Tokyo" is not civic pride---it is to promote the new "Tokyo Towers" mega project of downtown condos (prices start at $1.2 million USD for a very small 80sqm 2 bedroom).

I'm glad you've cleared that up. After I saw the signs all over the stations earlier this year, I went to the http://www.Ilovenewtokyo.com site and found it to be a content-free zone. With, as you point out, heavy flash-infestation.

[plaid_knight]

I Luv Neo-Tokyo too.

[dimwit]

I remember they used to sell those screw stickers that you could cover over the heart with. It looks like they could come in handy here.