Misa.j said:
I think the ad is offensive and extremely wrong.
Fortunately, and in all due respect, Japan isnt here to cater to the over-sensitive "insulted" foreigners.
You choose to see 9/11 where there is a flying train flying quite forward of the buildings which dont look like giant huge rectangular blocks in the sky
And you choose to find the harmless image of a flying train with the coincedental Japanese landmark in the background to stir up national pride in the sense "if your true japanese you'll use this train" or "use this train to see famous japanese places" as an unforgivable stab at the victims of 9/11, or even just a stab at your fragile ego, who knows.
The point is that in the long term, an actual image of a plane smashing into two huge american sky-scrapers makes me think of 9/11 more then a train "flying" past a japanese building, in the background, call me wierd.
nice gaijin said:
The images of those planes flying into the WTC have been engrained in the memories of those unfortunate enough to be in front of a TV to witness the events live or in the countless replays thereafter.
I saw the second strike live, I felt the emotion and tension and chaos as a tangible energy through the screen.
It still looks like a flying train infront of a building to me.
I guess I can see how it could look like it with a bit of imagination, but when I return to reality its still just a flying train infront of a background building again.
Its nice to see JR cared enough to respond personally, its all to easy to just disregard random complaints as over-sensitivity, and they say Japanese dislike foreigners, they obviously love you enough to want you to continue spending yen for train tickets.