This coloured edition of Rover’s iconic print depicts an image of crossroads. When asked where it was the artist said it could be “anywhere - Tokyo, America or the East Kimberley”. The artist has stood at all these crossroads in his life. Crossroads are a favourite subject for the artist - one of the signatures of his unique style. Many traditional songs and stories deal with journeys and meetings by all kinds of beings in many circumstances.  The artist too has spent much of his life wandering - first from the desert to the East Kimberley as a stockman and then all over the world as one of Australia’s foremost Aboriginal artists. His fascination with modern day ways of travel and meeting, as at the crossroads, reflects both traditional themes and his own life experience.

In April 2009, director of Charles Darwin University Art Collection the late Anita Angel described Tokyo Crossroads as "one of the iconic images of a pioneering era in Indigenous printmaking in Northern Australia.. characterised by "sweeping, large format lithographs unsurpassed in their vitality and truth to the medium." According to its printer, Leon Stainer, the creative impetus for Tokyo Crossroads was a conversation he had with the artist in which Thomas reminisced about a trip to Japan in which his strongest memory of its capital city was the heavy traffic flow. "The four diagonal panels ... are thought to represent flashing traffic lights."