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.
I agree, my personal thought is that Japanese government should not use their resources to increase tourists from outside of Japan. I do think Japan is already getting enough visitors from outside of Japan. Japanese government should put their resources in other area, such as a lot of industries in Japan which brought Japan into international level in ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s, are now not doing well. I think Japanese government should focus on that area to bring more monetary flow into Japan, not tourism.