04-03-2010, 07:14 AM
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The Reforms
Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition
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Japan - The Strange Country
originally seen here:
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Originally Posted by Jetée
Graphic designer Kenichi Tanaka’s animated infographic “Japan — The Strange Country” covers everything you wanted to know about Japan,
but were too busy warbling along to the Cowboy Bebop closing credits song to ask.
In his words (Tanaka): "This is my final thesis project. I created info-graphic, motion piece. My objective is to make Japanese people to think about that everything happening here in Japan, isn’t that normal. So I created this video from foreigner’s point of view, rather than Japanese people’s point of view."
Watch it on vimeo -- Japan: The Strange Country
~ 11 min. in length, short doc.
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