AboutJust Arrived In Japan or Just Arrived At the Sweet Motherland Of Japan, also known as Just Arrived In X Shadow Meme, is an exploitable meme format based on an AI-generated first-person POV photo of a crowd of Japanese people at the airport staring in horror at an obese man in a fedora, whose shadow is shown on the ground, captioned, "Just arrived at the sweet motherland of Japan. OriginOn August 3rd, 2026, TikToker @ag66_tt posted an AI-generated image of an obese man arriving at the airport in Japan. The image is captioned, "Just arrived at the sweet motherland of Japan. SpreadThe Just Arrived In Japan meme began to spread over the following weeks as the original was reposted and users began making different variations. On August 4th, 2026, it was reposted to the /r/Caldruki subreddit, garnering over 19,000 upvotes in a week.