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March 31, 2005
We Can't Bear their Departure...
On the first of every month, I got an automatic free blog post to save myself from dwindling into a repetitive diatribe about the "Japanese authorities" - namely, the Subway bear posters. Oh, how they were so naughty! Empty cans strewn across the platform, eating sloppy American-style hamburgers, leaving Japan for vacation.
So it is with much sadness that I must report the end of the Subway bear campaign, and to add more to my meta-narrative of Japanese decline, our little, overly-detailed cutesy bear has been replaced with amorphous cultural imperialist Elmo. What could he possibly know about shaming Japanese men and women into good behavior like they were elementary school students?!?
Posted by marxy at March 31, 2005 11:22 PM
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Once again you beat me to the punch although I did check Otemachi tonight for new bears. Perhaps Elmo is here to help us into the new fiscal year.
Posted by: Chris_B at March 31, 2005 11:48 PM
Yeah, too much of a "bear" market, huh?
Posted by: marxy at April 1, 2005 12:10 AM
Whoa - I've been following the bears' adventures, too. I remember thinkng last fall "I wish I had started taking pictures of these when I first saw them." I liked the one with a tie around his head (drunk salaryman, I presume?).
Tonight I saw the Elmo poster for the first time at Roppongi Hills station, then I stop by here and see the pic. How long until he dances with Koizumi?
Posted by: sid at April 1, 2005 1:49 AM