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To fend off tourists, a town in Japan is building a big screen blocking the view of Mount Fuji (apnews.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The neighborhood suddenly became a popular spot about two years ago, apparently after a photo taken in a particular angle showing Mount Fuji in the background of a local convenience store, became a social media sensation.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Japan has a strong and well educated middle class that isn‘t reliant enough on tourism to abandon their professions. Of course it’s a big part of their national economy today, but not every town is that needy or greedy for cash. Some just want to live their lives instead of opening and running a souvenir shop for the rest of their days or until tourists stop coming.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The article talks about how tourism is important to the town, literally being built on it, but it's just this spot is especially bad because tourists are behaving badly by illegally crossing the street and trespassing, among other things.

What you said is 100% just made up bullshit. Why?