I came across this post I wrote back in September, 2005 on finding design inspiration from ads inside Japanese commuter trains. The posters from Japan Tobacco on the "Smokers' Style" campaign are still a very interesting example of mixing text, simple graphics and simple color to get a message across in a sea of clutter. Take some time to go through the posters. You can see each poster in a larger size here and even get a pdf version of each poster.
The Japanese certainly do seem to have a penchant for whacky graphics. On average, I find most of them to be far too "noisy" and distracting. These are some examples of very good ones.
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