Years ago I saw an interesting if unclear-on-concept product in Japan: Indian Curry Powder, illustrated with a Native American in a feathered war-bonnet. In those days, Japan had a fairly insular culture, and India didn’t have a high profile internationally; in Japan especially it was not well-known.

Things have changed a lot since then.

So it was with some surprise (and, let me say, delight) that I saw the product recently in a Tokyo supermarket. Here, for your amusement: Indian Curry Powder.