I absolutely agree, but the tourism train is barreling forward at this point. I think an emotionally invested foreign community is the only way to smooth out fu

I absolutely agree, but the tourism train is barreling forward at this point. I think an emotionally invested foreign community is the only way to smooth out future gentrification tension. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes said it well in his "goodbye after 10 years" (sort of) writeup. [0] > Will Japan gradually fade into irrelevance, or re-invent itself? My head tells me that to prosper anew Japan must embrace change. But my heart aches at the thought of it losing the things that make it so special. [0] Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63830490 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63830490