The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is considering changing the design of the pages of Japanese passports in time for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Currently, there are patterns of cherry blossoms on the pages. TBS reported Wednesday that new motifs of some of Japan's World Heritage sites, such as Mt Fuji, may be added.
Possible design changes will be discussed further before a final decision is made later this year, the ministry said。
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papigiulio
I hope they get some inspiration from the Norway passports
turbotsat
Happened to have mine in my pocket, I see a couple of pages with glaring eagles, a naval battle scene (skipper standing on the gunwale under lyric from Star Spangled Banner), a man-o-war (ship, not jellyfish), Mount Rushmore, cowboys herding cattle, etc.
But, I guess would seem a lot more nationalistic than cherry blossoms. If you hadn't seen that penultimate scene in The Last Samurai.
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Darknet
What nationalistic imagery is on the American passport?
Scrote
Abe wants pictures of Yasukuni shrine and black van fascists on alternate pages.
gokai_wo_maneku
An American employee showed me his passport. Wow, it's really full of very nationalistic imagery. Japanese will be in trouble if we did the same thing. Cherry blossems are fine.