“How Japan Sees America” Map.

By Alex in Comics & Cartoons on Jun 10, 2007 at 12:17 pm

"How Japan Sees America" is a map that comes with a Sega Saturn RPG "Tengai Makyou: Daishi no Mokushiroku (The 4th Apocalypse)," scanned and annotated by Andrew Vestal of Yukihime.

This map is basically what would happen if you got a bunch of Japanese guys in a room, got them drunk, and then asked them to draw what they could remember about America on a bar napkin. Hell, that’s probably how this game was originally designed. Anyhow, I feel the map speaks for itself.

Link to Map (see larger version) | Link to post – via digg, Thanks John!

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illimey
Jun 10th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
Funny, but just consider what a map of Japan drawn by the average American would look like? A lot less accurate, and nowhere near as funny. Who’s laughing at who here?
rachel
Jun 10th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
Heh. A little out of date, now, I imagine. I doubt you could get three Japanese guys in a bar that wouldn’t include Dice-K-chusetts in all its red-knit footwear glory.
brem
Jun 11th, 2007 at 2:45 am
Although one thing they got right is that they completely forgot about Canada (but not Mexico!). Basically like any U.S. map available
Tinderbox
Jun 12th, 2007 at 1:34 am
Far better than the typical modern American schoolchild could do.
vashley
Jun 12th, 2007 at 4:14 am
i wanna go to that detroit.
thelivingrobot
Jul 1st, 2007 at 12:18 am
illimey, honestly, other than the ice castle in Alaska, what is accurate about that map at all?

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