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Old Oct 5, 2006 | 12:41 am
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Originally Posted by RichardInSF
At the time, I heard it was something like the tourists were getting in the way. Basically, no good reason. Wouldn't have been expensive to build a viewing stand for visitors. Japan is not at all tourist-oriented, really.
I'm sure most of the buyers/sellers there couldn't for the life of them work out why a bunch of foreigners were so interested in a fish market. In that case the obvious solution was to ban people?
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