Originally Posted by Pickles

I'm going to go all controversial and against the grain here, and suggest that Japan drop these stupid tourism targets. It's bad enough as it is with all these ignoramuses from all over the world traipsing around and making a mess out of the finely-balanced web of Japanese society. Japan is a fragile society with too many unspoken rules and constraints, and I don't think these incursions from abroad can be withstood easily by the system as currently structured. And it is this system that makes Japan so intensely fascinating.

Adapting Japan to millions and millions of additional tourists is going to ruin it. I can't even begin to imagine how the infrastructure, standard operating procedures, and overall tin-earedness of the Japanese to foreign things could cope with a doubling of tourists.