{"id":2778,"date":"2009-08-27T15:15:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T22:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=2778"},"modified":"2009-08-23T16:50:40","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T23:50:40","slug":"golden-arches-and-the-mirrored-gray-arch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/golden-arches-and-the-mirrored-gray-arch\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Arches and the Mirrored, Gray Arch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040302.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040302-594x800.jpg\" alt=\"makudonarudo uni qlo\" title=\"makudonarudo uni qlo\" width=\"594\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040302-594x800.jpg 594w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040302-185x250.jpg 185w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040302.JPG 669w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the current McDonald&#8217;s ad campaign in Japan they have chosen a random foreigner to be the poster child. They stuck some geeky-looking glasses on him, put a heart above his head, and attached the slogan &#8220;Nippon All Stars.&#8221; What any one of these many components have to do with each other, McDonald&#8217;s, or anything else is a mystery to me. I suppose that is the case for anyone seeing the ads as well.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Mr. Nippon All Stars (actually I think they are calling him Mr. James) is pushing the &#8220;Tamago Double Mac&#8221; (\u305f\u307e\u3054\u30c0\u30d6\u30eb\u30de\u30c3\u30af) which is a piece of bacon, an egg, and two hamburger patties on a bun. I will pass on that one.<\/p>\n<p>Uni Qlo, in the background of the above photo, is a clothing store which we have already endowed with a few thousand yen. The prices are pretty good and the selection is nice. What does Uni Qlo (or Uniqlo) mean you ask? I have no idea.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040303.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040303-800x573.jpg\" alt=\"mcdonalds japan makudonarudo waseda university\" title=\"mcdonalds japan makudonarudo waseda university\" width=\"800\" height=\"573\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040303-800x573.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040303-250x179.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040303.JPG 1255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the front of Uniqlo a different view of the Golden Arches can be obtained. I believe this is a <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/waseda-walker\/>Waseda University<\/a> building forming the single arch across the (Meiji Doori) street. The main campus is a 10 minute walk to the northeast though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the current McDonald&#8217;s ad campaign in Japan they have chosen a random foreigner to be the poster child. They stuck some geeky-looking glasses on him, put a heart above his head, and attached the slogan &#8220;Nippon All Stars.&#8221; What any one of these many components have to do with each other, McDonald&#8217;s, or anything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[102,88,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2778"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2782,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions\/2782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}