Via Chris Butcher, the cover of a Japanese magazine devoted to … um … American police. Oddly enough, this magazine seems to be celebrating the fine cops of the United States, at least according to the translation of a headline provided by one of Chris’s readers. According to LillianDP, the headline on the top left reads “32 pages jam-packed with America’s heroic and hot-blooded police! Your hands will get hot just turning the pages!”
I really want someone to explain this to me.
This is perhaps a good opportunity to remind readers that Chris’s blog is chock-full of wonderful photographs of Japan, photos that brilliantly zoom in on that nation’s urban and consumer landscape.
sans everything 
My god! that pile of french fries is huge!! And the guy is drinking five different sodas!! wowwww!!
Paulie11 from inside the Snakepit
I wish I could have that right now. I’m starving.
It’s a mook, so it’s a one-shot magazine-sized book; a quick google turns up other volumes in the “Wild Mook” series about fighter planes, trucks, ships, fire engines, military uniforms, etc (not all American). Here’s a more recent mook by the same publisher, about military rations of the world. And I have no idea why this one is called “Adventure Canned Goods”.
-j
J. Greely: Thanks! Very helpful.
That photo looks like it’s from the early 1980s. The Big Mac and A&W packaging looks particularly dated.