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Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards (english.elpais.com)

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[–] hector@lemmy.today -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It can't possibly be near cherry festival time? It's cold as Islamic hell still here in the continental US. Warmer than the worst of it, we hit -26 f one night here, and below freezing over a dozen days. We are still buried in snow, haven't had more than a few days above freezing since thanksgiving the snow from which never melted.

I know Japan is on the oceans, but they also do get some continental breezes coming over? They can't possibly be into spring yet? They are quite a bit north anyway. Seems so early, here it's like may, maybe april with cherry blossoms, not sure like the pnw which maybe is more similar to japan.

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[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 145 points 1 week ago (20 children)

Among them, “entering houses without permission to use the bathroom,” “break-ins,” “littering,” and people “defecating in private yards” and “complaining when residents catch them.”

I really don't understand how a tourist can think any of this makes sense. Like, would they do this in their country too?

[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 119 points 1 week ago (2 children)

China. These are China-nese tourists. They used to do the same shit in Taiwan before the government banned them.

I saw a mom put their kid on the trashcan so he could pee into a trash can. This was an indoor mall.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 52 points 1 week ago (5 children)

It's a frequent issue in Hong Kong too where people from the mainland will just shit right in the street and walk away like its no big deal.

[–] Scirocco@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was not aware that mainland China had designated shitting streets.

Huh

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 6 days ago

why is there a poop deck on ships if not for pooping

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[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

Tourists are usually mindful of the country they're visiting, but then most Mainland Chinese are former farm peasants who suddenly got wealthy for some reason and live in big cities, so able to even travel abroad, but unfortunately have little to no understanding of etiquette and how to properly conduct themselves elsewhere.

about the damn unable to find the toilet: I'm sure some have trouble communicating in a foreign country, or worse, unable to comprehend symbology, they end up rolling back to default behavior by just squatting and dumping where they see as convenient to them.

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[–] A_cook_not_a_chef@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Maybe I'm too Usian to understand this but the article doesn't call out tourists from any particular country. So it's odd to me that China is being called out so much in the comments.

[–] bossito@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People know.. If this news was from somewhere in Europe everyone would be blaming the Brits in the comments. It's known..

[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 week ago

I doubt it.

Americans and Brits tourists here in Europe do indeed have a certain reputation, but Chinese tourists have such a bad reputation that Brits and Americans are welcomed with open arms.

The biggest problem are the groups though. Any group is going to behave badly, nationality doesn't matter. And that in combination with how different Chinese culture is in some aspects just has given them a bad reputation worldwide.

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[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Tourists who can afford to fly on an airplane and therefore presumably understand how a toilet works are actually defecating in yards? I admit I didn't read the article but it doesn't pass my smell test.

[–] theyoyomaster@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You would be surprised what percentage of the world, even those with access to air travel, aren’t that familiar with a western or Japanese toilet. Now shitting on someone’s yard is a different issue all together but I’ve seen plenty of hotels with signage in the bathroom of how to use the toilet and specifying that you need to be in the shower when taking a shower.

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[–] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Lots of narrative building going on in this thread. I'm in another comment chain where the case is being made that Japan has the best maintained and widely available toilets in the world and yet people are still choosing to break into homes to use the bathroom and defecate in the open despite this. Hard to believe anyone can genuinely buy this so one can only assume that the underlying intention is, rather than having a discussion in good faith, to pit this on one group of people while absolving the organizers of any accountability.

Which is their prerogative but it's important that they acknowledge their bias. Japan is headed towards an alarming demographic collapse with 40% of its population being pensioners by 2046. Tourism is one of the few industries that will keep their economy and social services afloat, so I do genuinely hope they figure this out, for their sake.

[–] udon@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My impression overall here is that most tourists try to behave very well. I see people from my home country offer gentle gestures like carrying an elderly person's bag up the stairs that they would not do at home.

The problem are the 3 fuckers among 10000 who behave like shit, and the fact that there are so many tourists especially in high season.

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Wouldn't a bunch of porta potties solve this?

[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 31 points 1 week ago (4 children)

There are public bathrooms at the park. It was packed with tourists and their litter when I went in 2024 though.

As for the streets where people actually live, they shouldn't need to have a bunch of ugly porta-potties occupying the streets in front of their home. It's a place where people have always lived, not a place that exists solely to be a tourist attraction.

I guess I wrongly assumed all tourists would have the common sense to not defacate in someone else's yard.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are public bathrooms at the park. It was packed with tourists and their litter when I went in 2024 though.

Soooo, the festivals are probably put on by the city or area. If the bathrooms at the park were packed, then the city and area should provide more porta potties. It's kind of simple. The cities probably wanted the tourism, but are now realizing that it might not be worth it? That I get. The pooping thing though, that I don't get.

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