More video about the Tsukiji tourism ban

Another report, this time from TBS, about the Tsukiji fish market closing its auctions to tourists because of its inability to control foreign tourists with bad manners:

The report doesn’t have any particularly new information in it, but there is a comical moment about 40 seconds into the clip when a foreign tourist tries to avoid getting in the way of the camera shot. He doesn’t seem to realize that the news cameras are there to watch foreigners like him in an attempt to find juicy footage of rude behavior.

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10 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - December 13, 2008 at 8:41 am

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Thomas

Funny Japanese and their fish…
http://www.zdwonline.de Haf

Err… maybe the foreigner just didn’t want to be filmed.

But yeah, his reaction looks more like getting out of the way than hiding his face.
Anonymous

>> because of its inability to control foreign tourists with bad manners

Because of the inability of a lot of foreign tourists with bad manners to control themselves.

There, fixed it for you.

The Tuskiji fish market is about selling fish, not entertaining tourists. If the tourists get in the way of their core business, then who can blame them?
Bruce Smith

I agree with banning irrelevant people including tourists from wandering into any workplace including Tsukuji.

But Japanese people should have the honesty to acknowledge that outside Japan, Japanese tourists are not always well behaved.

The fault lies not with Non-Japanese, the fault lies with tourists.

LB

“But Japanese people should have the honesty to acknowledge that outside Japan, Japanese tourists are not always well behaved.”

Like when they were scribbling their names on the walls of an ancient church in Italy (to be fair, so was everyone else, and there were even hawkers outside the church selling pens!)? The story that made front-page news and was on all the news and wide shows with Japanese asking “What the heck is wrong with these (Japanese) people?!?”

Or the Japanese tourists who deface tourist spots within Japan, and make the news?

There is plenty of honesty about the behavior of fellow Japanese, I haven’t seen a “our feces don’t stink” attitude in this regard.

mee

You can clearly see that people are in the way, and it’s totally appropriate to ban gawkers from workplaces like TsukIji. The reason they go there is that every travel book and guide agency recommends it, but to be honest you can see big fish in every other street market in any decent sized town in Japan. Take this one out of the Lonely Planet and the people will miraculously disappear. Also there were some Japanese tourists in there, why was the title about gaikokujin?

Jax143

Its their country.
Supercoolmanchu

Last time I checked the Chinese and Korean tourists look an awful lot like the Japanese.

onceuponatime

if it is a tourist spot it should be set up as an official one -with special places for tourists to observe, etc. otherwise keep everyone out. sumo beya apparently have a handle on being tourist spots. – not that they have a handle on much of anything else.
zols

Cover Up ! its just all about whale selling. After a lot of scandal avout killing a selling whales in high volume, they want to hide their whale selling business.

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