Okay maybe we experienced different places but at least in Osaka this has not been my experience. The most xenophobia I've experienced ever since I came (a year+ ago) is random restrictions on foreigners at JP Bank (which should honestly rot in hell), but I've definitely not seen anything close to your experience. I'm a young Middle Eastern guy for refence.

First, what does that have to do with the article, or was this a response to something accidentally set at parent level?

I've been in Japan for almost 9 years now and that's not really my experience. I've been generally just treated like a normal human as I would anywhere else. Yeah, there are racist fuckheads, but 15% seems like a lot in my experience.

Not a weeb but I think that's most places if you don't look or speak like them. I'm American but I'm brown, west coast, bigger cities there's enough brown people I don't stand out. Down south, rural small towns, most of Europe those reactions and percentages sound about right.

Welcome to being a minority.

locals don't give a shit about 'views'. they just want to live their lives unimpeded by assholes and idiots

If it's where I think it is, it's not going to block the view for the locals. That's not to say it won't be an eyesore, but locals will often have their own views (and a ton of that town's population lives more outside and inside is mostly just tourist stuff (hotels, onsen, parks, etc.)).

Edit: unbalanced parenthesis :/

Edit 2: yeah, looks like the one I'm thinking of. Dentist office opposite it. https://maps.app.goo.gl/gvtEEggMEzKwTa3B8

Because tourists can end up inadvertently majorly fucking over locals in a huuuge way. Barcelona is a good example of what happens when tourism is left unimpeded.

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.

It depends on the place. If there are places that are filled with independently wealthy people, they will try to make their home town as unfriendly as possible to tourists to reduce traffic.

So many places, even in japan, are dying to get some tourist 💵 attention and these guys just dont give a fuck. So weird, just start a takoyaki stand near the photo spot and rack in the cash. Eventually the fad will die anyway

Is this the one where they've stopped people from entering private streets and people misinterpreted it

And also if they did ban tourists how do they tell who are tourists and who are expats that live in Japan

Wait, what? If I learned one thing from JRPGs is that it's ok in japanese culture to just barge into someone's home unannounced, without knocking. Have they been lying to us?

/j