Comments on: More video about the Tsukiji tourism ban

By: zols

zols — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:00:56 +0000

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.

By: onceuponatime

onceuponatime — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:52:44 +0000

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.

By: Supercoolmanchu

Supercoolmanchu — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:55:27 +0000

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

By: Jax143

Jax143 — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:18:25 +0000

Its their country.

By: LB

LB — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:04:44 +0000

“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.

By: mee

mee — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:46:34 +0000

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?

By: Bruce Smith

Bruce Smith — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:22:55 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 07:36:12 +0000

>> 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?

By: Haf

Haf — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 07:00:49 +0000

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.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 06:37:02 +0000

Funny Japanese and their fish…