"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, honestly, other than the ice castle in Alaska, what is accurate about that map at all?
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i wanna go to that detroit.
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Far better than the typical modern American schoolchild could do.
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Although one thing they got right is that they completely forgot about Canada (but not Mexico!). Basically like any U.S. map available :)
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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 A little out of date, now, I imagine.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.
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