Welcome to Italy. People carving stuff and putting graffiti on everything for a long time now. Now we put a tax on all tourists visiting. We've had historical monuments destroyed.
So sad! I loved being in Rome where every few steps was ancient history. I hated seeing Graffiti everywhere. Sorry that I had thought it was the locals. I grew up in USA (some graffiti ) but I moved back to Japan in 1977 and extremely rare to see graffiti by locals.
I said this is what is going to start happening more and more as tourism grows way back when a similar case happened in Arashiyama. Do people remember this? Happened before the pandemic. It is just the way it is. Most tourists don't behave like that, but when you get an influx that is getting close to 3 million a month, even if just 0.001% of tourists behave like assholes, what you have is still 3 thousand of them behaving like assholes. Crimes, vandalism, and general problems are just going to start happening more and more, and tourist locations in Japan will need to start preparing better for this volume of tourists more and more. Which usually translates into physical barriers, pay to visit, unfriendly locals and police, prejudice, bad attitude towards non-locals, and the list goes on. Unfortunate as it may be, this is just the reality when it comes to numbers like those. If things continue to trend this way, I'm sorry for those who admires certain things about Japanese culture and receptiveness towards foreign tourists, but the reality of the situation will force the change. And usually, it's not great. Everyone who has lived their lives in places which became highly sought after tourist attractions will know all too well how this goes.
Here in the Philippines just because a church is old, you can't just go in and act like a tourist. The custodians could still ask you to leave if you're unruly, especially when there are church services going on. Shinto shrines are religious centers too. Their management should have the right and the capacity to refuse entry and to eject people who act inappropriately.
I have been enjoying going in and out of Japan for a very long time as a tourist. What a bummer😑Now they will generalize that all tourists are like that 😓...or worse, I cannot go back like I used to. This sucks.
*Ode to the Shōwa Restoration song lyrics:* "Alone, I stand in this murky and turbid world, My blood simmers with righteous anger. The elite bear only arrogance, thinking nothing of this land and its fate. The Zaibatsu boast of their wealth, yet in their hearts, our soil and grain hold no place. Ah, this prosperous country is dying, with ignorant fools dancing blindly in their world. Governance and rule to them are only dreams..." These lyrics perfectly describe today’s Japanese government, specifically the Tourism department, which only cares about money and how much they can extract from foreigners, neglecting the country’s well-being and the preservation of its culture and faith.
No. People are stupid. This is happening all over the world. In italy historical monuments have been destroyed. Parthenon and colloseum has had graffiti and etchibgs. This has been happening for a long time, it's just newer in japan. Italy puts a tax on tourists now. This money goes to cleaning up the mess tourists make, unfortunately everyone suffers because of the actions of some.
Better tax them or increase the entrance fee for tourists, although how to differentiate them from local tourists will be a problem. People nowadays have no more morals. Bad behavior covers not only foreign tourists but both japanese and foreign residents in japan as well. Some do bad things for content purposes on their youtube channels and some, well……. just plain bad behavior.
@@nervousbunnygaming I said probably, and if you understood Kanji then the odds of you doing vandalism on a foreign country would be pretty slim. Unless you deliberately hate the said country. 🤷
- Defacing public property is not okay, no matter how and where you do it - but lets not pretend that scratching your name in a wooden pillar, that gets replaced in regular intervals, is a major crime - writing/scratching names on things always happened. if there was a very old old tori gate with 500year old scratches of two lovers names, it would probably be in a museum somewhere or behind glass - this is not a tourist problem. those kanji? I doubt they came from tourists. impossible? no, but highly unlikely. MAYBE a chinese tourist might use a symbol that could be called a kanji. but still, theres plenty of domestic idiots around well willing and capable to scratch their name in something. - and of course, if you let in millions of guests, theres bound to be a few that misbehave. its unfortunate that those single digits will sour it for the other literal tens of millions. but keep that in mind when starting to judge someone not for his actions but for the actions of others - gratifying out of protest is not vandalism, its protest. while the effect are similar, the motive is very different, and it must be judged differently. also, its highly emotional. every fact based discussion on the topic I know of shows that the slow release of water over 30 years, with all radioisotopes removed except for tritium, and the tritium being in such small quantities (and also naturally occoring in the sea), that there is no cause for alarm. if you protest something, maybe protest something worth protesting for. I am not saying people should be allowed to do what they want, or that there are never any tourists misbehaving. but this aint black and white. its not evil tourists destroying century old religious irreplaceable artworks. and its not a harmless prank. of course its not okay to write or scratch anything on someone elses property. that includes tori gates when a guest in japan. and I would wish for all guest to always be on their best behaviour. but let the punishment fit the crime. make them clean it up. make them pay for the damages. and throw em out and ban them for coming back for, depending on how bad they fucked up. but no, this is not an epidemic where the world has concluded to send defacers en mass to japan. and not every defacing is made by a tourist.
Welcome to Italy. People carving stuff and putting graffiti on everything for a long time now. Now we put a tax on all tourists visiting. We've had historical monuments destroyed.
Yes, very sad, I remember seeing them everywhere on old stone steps inside towers etc
So sad! I loved being in Rome where every few steps was ancient history. I hated seeing Graffiti everywhere. Sorry that I had thought it was the locals. I grew up in USA (some graffiti ) but I moved back to Japan in 1977 and extremely rare to see graffiti by locals.
I said this is what is going to start happening more and more as tourism grows way back when a similar case happened in Arashiyama. Do people remember this? Happened before the pandemic.
It is just the way it is. Most tourists don't behave like that, but when you get an influx that is getting close to 3 million a month, even if just 0.001% of tourists behave like assholes, what you have is still 3 thousand of them behaving like assholes.
Crimes, vandalism, and general problems are just going to start happening more and more, and tourist locations in Japan will need to start preparing better for this volume of tourists more and more. Which usually translates into physical barriers, pay to visit, unfriendly locals and police, prejudice, bad attitude towards non-locals, and the list goes on.
Unfortunate as it may be, this is just the reality when it comes to numbers like those.
If things continue to trend this way, I'm sorry for those who admires certain things about Japanese culture and receptiveness towards foreign tourists, but the reality of the situation will force the change. And usually, it's not great. Everyone who has lived their lives in places which became highly sought after tourist attractions will know all too well how this goes.
Judicial caning is an effective deterrence against vandalism here in Singapore. Might be a worthwhile consideration.
たまにむち打ちで喜ぶ変態がいるからな〜
Yes, very effective 👍
Arrest and jail. Morons.
Here in the Philippines just because a church is old, you can't just go in and act like a tourist. The custodians could still ask you to leave if you're unruly, especially when there are church services going on. Shinto shrines are religious centers too. Their management should have the right and the capacity to refuse entry and to eject people who act inappropriately.
I have been enjoying going in and out of Japan for a very long time as a tourist. What a bummer😑Now they will generalize that all tourists are like that 😓...or worse, I cannot go back like I used to. This sucks.
Inuyama castle is also suffering from graffiti, so they fence parts of
Its a shame.
This is really sad, WTF if going on with people 😡😢😟👎🙅♂🙅♀🚫⛔🙏⛩
Low intelligence. People getting dumber and less responsible and less mindful.
Typical entitled behavior from the mainlanders who eat up the CCP’s bull.
No understanding or respect.
Bad parenting and social media influence
It's time to put those pillars behind protective plexiglass barriers !
like politicians.
There’s one climbing and hanging on the Tori gate on walkway
*Ode to the Shōwa Restoration song lyrics:*
"Alone, I stand in this murky and turbid world,
My blood simmers with righteous anger.
The elite bear only arrogance,
thinking nothing of this land and its fate.
The Zaibatsu boast of their wealth,
yet in their hearts, our soil and grain hold no place.
Ah, this prosperous country is dying,
with ignorant fools dancing blindly in their world.
Governance and rule to them are only dreams..."
These lyrics perfectly describe today’s Japanese government, specifically the Tourism department, which only cares about money and how much they can extract from foreigners, neglecting the country’s well-being and the preservation of its culture and faith.
Japan need to lockdown the country from tourists 1 more time. This is getting out of control.
What do people have something against Shinto and its shrines?!
hmmmmm.....
For Yasukuni Shrine it's because it enshrines Japanese war criminals. IDK about Meiji Jingu.
No. People are stupid. This is happening all over the world. In italy historical monuments have been destroyed. Parthenon and colloseum has had graffiti and etchibgs. This has been happening for a long time, it's just newer in japan. Italy puts a tax on tourists now. This money goes to cleaning up the mess tourists make, unfortunately everyone suffers because of the actions of some.
@@neetuh4850actually, you make a good point. 😅
Americans have everything against everything that is "foreign" to them
It is so disheartening to hear news like this, especially as someone who wants to see these things someday.
I never understood why anybody would do anything like that so just boggles my mind
Place a hard plastic protecter round it so nobody can graffiti on it anymore
I don't understand people who do this, you visit a beautiful and spiritual place and deface it!
Better tax them or increase the entrance fee for tourists, although how to differentiate them from local tourists will be a problem. People nowadays have no more morals. Bad behavior covers not only foreign tourists but both japanese and foreign residents in japan as well. Some do bad things for content purposes on their youtube channels and some, well……. just plain bad behavior.
Those guys should be banned from even travelling overseas, let alone leaving their houses for their idiocy
Very nice Red Bull marketing, I wonder if he got sued by Red Bull 😂
Etching 5 alphabets?
Cave markings made By cave men. Very primitive.
0:20 oh no, I recognize that word from both Japanese Kanji and Mandarin, oh no that’s bad whoever did that
Oh boy...
People want to be caught by putting their names on it
Stop letting them go to ur country
American or European
It's written in Kanji. So it's probably Chinese.
@@janlim0916I mean I’m American and know kanji 🤷🏻♀️
@@nervousbunnygaming I said probably, and if you understood Kanji then the odds of you doing vandalism on a foreign country would be pretty slim. Unless you deliberately hate the said country. 🤷
Considering what was written, probably a Japanese.
Whatever the nationalities they are, it should not have happened. It's very disrespectful.
- Defacing public property is not okay, no matter how and where you do it
- but lets not pretend that scratching your name in a wooden pillar, that gets replaced in regular intervals, is a major crime
- writing/scratching names on things always happened. if there was a very old old tori gate with 500year old scratches of two lovers names, it would probably be in a museum somewhere or behind glass
- this is not a tourist problem. those kanji? I doubt they came from tourists. impossible? no, but highly unlikely. MAYBE a chinese tourist might use a symbol that could be called a kanji. but still, theres plenty of domestic idiots around well willing and capable to scratch their name in something.
- and of course, if you let in millions of guests, theres bound to be a few that misbehave. its unfortunate that those single digits will sour it for the other literal tens of millions. but keep that in mind when starting to judge someone not for his actions but for the actions of others
- gratifying out of protest is not vandalism, its protest. while the effect are similar, the motive is very different, and it must be judged differently. also, its highly emotional. every fact based discussion on the topic I know of shows that the slow release of water over 30 years, with all radioisotopes removed except for tritium, and the tritium being in such small quantities (and also naturally occoring in the sea), that there is no cause for alarm. if you protest something, maybe protest something worth protesting for.
I am not saying people should be allowed to do what they want, or that there are never any tourists misbehaving. but this aint black and white. its not evil tourists destroying century old religious irreplaceable artworks. and its not a harmless prank.
of course its not okay to write or scratch anything on someone elses property. that includes tori gates when a guest in japan. and I would wish for all guest to always be on their best behaviour. but let the punishment fit the crime. make them clean it up. make them pay for the damages. and throw em out and ban them for coming back for, depending on how bad they fucked up.
but no, this is not an epidemic where the world has concluded to send defacers en mass to japan. and not every defacing is made by a tourist.
When in Rome, do as Romans do.
When in Japan, don't do as Chinese do.
2:55 A 65 year-old American tourist committed the graffiti act most recently.
No sweeping remarks please.
Don't do as Koreans do:
Koreans Banned from Entering Tsushima Shrine Due to Ill-Mannered Visitors / Tokyo Weekender June 7, 2024
Reports say he used his FINGERNAILS. If he could damage the Tori with his fingernails, I'd say he was alerting them that the wood is rotting.
so far all behaviour like this were linked to Americans, but nice try.
SO CUTEEEEE, JAPAN LOVELY KAWAII 可愛い日本🇯🇵😂
Are you nuts?
The comment you made has nothing to do with the report. It's very inappropriate.
あんたね。。。。。。
Vandalizing Meiji Shrine is so stupid. Vandalizing Yasukuni shrine? Meh.
This is why Japan is getting so cute everyday, so kawaii oh my god WWWWW
😡😡😡😡😡😡
Hehehe