Originally Posted by
justlaz
Seems like Japanese citizens are generally happy to not have tourists, which speaks clearly how they view foreigners. It is very unfortunate because a lot of people from around the world love and appreciate Japanese culture.
I’m hopeful for a reopening in May, have a lot of award booking tied to a trip in Japan that I hope I won't need to cancel. But even if they do allow tourist, I wouldn't be surprised there's some ridiculous rules like introducing a limit to how many entrants or 3 day mandatory quarantine or just anything these days. Limiting 5000 students and business people is pretty ridiculous and don't see what exactly are they trying to contain
i just hope that they can look at Singapore and Thailand as examples of how to open safely.
They are happy not to have tourists, and they are not happy about not having tourists. Depending a bit on what hat they are wearing and who you ask. Why is that different than the people of Venice being happy about the reduced number of tourists, or the people of Barcelona having protests against tourist ruining the city? The concept of over tourism has been discussed extensively pre-pandemic, and to be honest the pandemic has allowed us to have a reminder that it is an issue to find a solution to.
So when there was an opinion poll published that shows the Japanese population in favour of keeping foreigners out, how was it made and what specifically was asked?