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The lies nationalists tell are the same all over the world
I don't doubt some of this stuff happened, but I also wouldn't be surprised if some of it is nationalist fear mongering. Just like the whole "tourists are kicking the deer" rumor where no evidence ever surfaced. Some nationalist Japanese really like to stoke the anti-foreigner flames.
But Japan truly does have an over-tourism problem so this could absolutely be justified.
They desperately need more immigration though, don't they?
Maybe they could say "you can come to the festival, but only if you don't leave."
Fun fact about this meme:
Is from when the guy with the microphone tried to table legislation that would give immigrants a path to Japanese citizenship
They do but I don't know if there is a significant conversion from tourism to immigration. I think most tourists are taking advantage of the weak yen, not trying to live there long term.
I was kidding, heh.
…They do need to get on that, though. My completely layman’s impression is that Japan has some cultural issues with immigration, but that’s becoming an existential issue.
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it does happen unfortunately, not only japan but chinese from china are doing this to taiwan, other asian countries and europe too.
As the article points out, we're also in an election (voting is today (Sunday Japan time)) so the cynical side of me worders if the timing is coordinated since fear and "foreigners bad" are successfully distracting from actual issues of rising prices and stagnant wages leading to a lower quality of life
I live in the US and I have no idea what that's like.
/s
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I haven't gone to a foreign country on vacation in a long time but... why the fuck would anyone behave like this? Even the 'not my country, I am just a guest' idea is bullshit. Sure tourists are there to have a fun time and would eat and drink more than they would at home but... shitting on the street? Really?
Mainland Chinese tourists are infamous for their lack of manners.
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Look, the story is full of deceit. If crimes were committed, they would have called the cops, right? Or posted pictures and video. Of course they would have ... unless the perpetrators were rich Japanese folk. This is common sense.
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It can't possibly be near cherry festival time? It's cold as Islamic hell still here in the continental US. Warmer than the worst of it, we hit -26 f one night here, and below freezing over a dozen days. We are still buried in snow, haven't had more than a few days above freezing since thanksgiving the snow from which never melted.
I know Japan is on the oceans, but they also do get some continental breezes coming over? They can't possibly be into spring yet? They are quite a bit north anyway. Seems so early, here it's like may, maybe april with cherry blossoms, not sure like the pnw which maybe is more similar to japan.
It's quite warm on/near the Pacific right now.
Tourists who can afford to fly on an airplane and therefore presumably understand how a toilet works are actually defecating in yards? I admit I didn't read the article but it doesn't pass my smell test.
Lots of narrative building going on in this thread. I'm in another comment chain where the case is being made that Japan has the best maintained and widely available toilets in the world and yet people are still choosing to break into homes to use the bathroom and defecate in the open despite this. Hard to believe anyone can genuinely buy this so one can only assume that the underlying intention is, rather than having a discussion in good faith, to pit this on one group of people while absolving the organizers of any accountability.
Which is their prerogative but it's important that they acknowledge their bias. Japan is headed towards an alarming demographic collapse with 40% of its population being pensioners by 2046. Tourism is one of the few industries that will keep their economy and social services afloat, so I do genuinely hope they figure this out, for their sake.
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It really is just tourists that people are talking about whenever right wing lunatics talk about borders.
Among them, “entering houses without permission to use the bathroom,” “break-ins,” “littering,” and people “defecating in private yards” and “complaining when residents catch them.”
I really don't understand how a tourist can think any of this makes sense. Like, would they do this in their country too?
They played too many JRPGs and got the wrong idea
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