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One Piece Ad to Run in New York Times; Plus Updated Prefecture Posters

To celebrate One Piece's accomplishment of having 300 million copies in print, Shueisha has been running a special campaign called Sanoku ThanX ("300 million thanks"), with special ads that will run in almost every major newspaper.

Including, it seems, the New York Times and Taiwan's China Daily. Here's a sneak peek at the ad:

For the Japanese campaign, each of the 47 prefectures received their own special One Piece ad, showing off products or goods representative of each region. Starting with the northernmost prefecture, Hokkaido, here are all 47 ads. Get your scroll finger ready:

Hokkaido

Aomori

Akita

Iwate

Yamagata

Miyagi

Fukushima

Ibaraki

Saitama

Chiba

Tokyo

Kanagawa

Tochigi

Gunma

Yamanashi

Shizuoka

Nagano

Niigata

Aichi

Gifu

Fukui

Toyama

Ishikawa

Osaka

Kyoto

Shiga

Wakayama

Mie

Nara

Hyogo

Okayama

Hiroshima

Tottori

Shimane

Yamaguchi

Kagawa

Tokushima

Ehime

Kochi

Fukuoka

Saga

Nagasaki

Kumamoto

Oita

Miyazaki

Kagoshima

Okinawa