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I think the western media never want to promote Japan as tourist destination. In my country I´ve never seen on TV any program showing the atractiveness of Japan as they do to New York, Paris or London. Generally all the time we see the skyline of New York skyscrapers, the Rome coliseum, the Big Ben or the Eiffel Tower and certain lost paradises of Africa, Southeast Asia or Pacific ocean. All the time the media are producing documentaries about remote sites basically oriented to backpackers. I don´t see any interest from them in showing the rest of the world as should be. In the case of Japan they never mention for example the city of Kyoto. The only thing that I see of Japan is the Shibuya´s scramble crossing for 1 second in any History or Discovery channel documentary when they want to show a glimpse of the world. They never say it is the famous Shibuya in Japan. They prefer to confuse the audience by simply associating the crossing image as any convoluted crowded asian city. Another example is the World´s tallest tower called Skytree. If it were an American or European construction for sure they would mention it in many different programs. Thanks to YouTube for the first time in my life I could see the Tokyo´s Skyline and for me is the most interesting city to see from above or at street level more than any city in the world, even more than Dubai that lately is well promoted because there are American and European interests in that country apart that Dubai may pay great great amount of money to the western media owners for this purpose. To finish my comment, I want to add one question: Have you ever seen any image or video of sakura hanami in any western media program, at least for one second?