The NC shirt caught my eye since I went to school in the state, but more to the point, I also studied abroad in Japan and saw this on more than one occasion. In fact, I even saw a 3 year old running around in an Oklahoma t-shirt despite the fact that neither he nor his parents had ever been there (I grew up there so I had to ask). I think it’s just random Japanese fashion, truth be told.

For any readers who can’t read Japanese, in the last sentence “N” speculates that the North Carolina guy is an exchange student.

Good theory, but Shikoku University is a pretty small school, and to my knowledge only has two exchange students from the West: myself and a woman from Hungry. My guess is it’s a Japanese student that bought the sweatshirt locally without knowing what it meant. Ah well…

Lars

I spilled green tea on my laptop.

きっと彼は留学していたに違いない！