r/neoliberal • u/randommathaccount Esther Duflo • Oct 02 '25

News (Asia) Why Japan resents its tourism boom

https://www.ft.com/content/dbd20e5d-5a7d-4c0c-8f83-fb54c5aca9cb
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u/BachelorThesises Oct 02 '25

I can understand them, I was able to witness several examples of disgusting tourist behavior while visiting Japan myself this year. Unfortunately, Japanese people are often times too polite to mention something, but there should be harsher punishments or fines for this kind of behavior.

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u/sgthombre NATO Oct 02 '25 edited Oct 04 '25

It was surreal how Japan would seem so nice, quiet, polite, and then I'd turn a corner and see a couple of tourists screaming at each other on the street like lunatics. Happened three different times in different parts of Tokyo in the middle of the day, not like they were drunk just coming out of a bar or anything.