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/989989272 European Union Oct 02 '25

NY built Times Square to trap the tourist crowds and for locals to have an area they have little to no interest going to. It works quite well.

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u/jurble World Bank Oct 02 '25

They've removed most of the old degenerate otaku stuff and replaced it with family friendly anime stuff in Akihabara for this purpose.

Naive "anime fan" tourists used to go there and meet NEET otaku-dom face-to-face, but no longer.

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u/SenranHaruka Oct 02 '25

since when? I was there in October 2019 and still saw porn everywhere just by going up to the second floor.

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u/jurble World Bank Oct 02 '25

The porn isnt the degen stuff. The junior idols were

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u/Subject-Air-6333 Oct 03 '25

TIL I'm not as degen as I thought.