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Mar 12 2007 4 Comments

Hurried hoarding?

With millions of people travelling on Tokyo’s trains everyday, the price for real-estate and rental properties inevitably increases the nearer to a station one gets — regardless of how big or busy it is. A system that is presumably the same as far as advertising space is concerned, meaning that the costs at stake make producing a perfect promotional poster a prerequisite.

Tokyo advertising

Which, as well as concerns about the looks and the layout, should probably include at least a little look at the language being used.

Tokyo advertising

Especially if it’s a restaurant — or even a cafeteria — that primarily provides ramen rather than a place popular with police officers.

Categorized: Food and Drink, Language, Photography

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  1. shinobi says

    3/12/2007 at 1:05 pm

    I think any Englishman could make alot of money freelancing to correct such signs in Japan as there seem to be alot of them!

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  2. Harvey says

    3/12/2007 at 1:47 pm

    The problem is that most Japanese companies don’t care if their English is messed up, because they assume only Japanese will be reading them!

    This one is this is a stupendous slip-up though. It took me forever to make the connection between law-men and ramen…

    I thought maybe it was a company providing legal services!

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  3. Paul says

    3/12/2007 at 9:16 pm

    That apostrophe seems to have slipped.

    I bet the chap that wrote that copy actually gets off with women on the strength of his prowess mangling the english language. Some people have all the luck.

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  4. Roaf says

    3/13/2007 at 12:22 am

    I suppose Japanese law-men do actually eat ramen, like US cops eat donuts.

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