# This is why we can't have nice things: asshole tourists in Japan **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 1, 2024, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things-asshole-tourists-in-japan/1002391 "2024-06-01T21:03:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2026, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things-asshole-tourists-in-japan/1002391/261 "2026-06-19T09:22:16Z")
and let grandpa pay for repairs himself ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2026, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things-asshole-tourists-in-japan/1002391/262 "2026-06-20T00:25:26Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > True that world population is increasing more slowly than it did. And might, just might level off on it’s own. > > But ignoring war and AGW, global GDP and GDP per capita is going nowhere but up. > [@LSLGuy](#): > > The issue is how to reduce population without crashing an economic system that demands continuous growth. > > We have threads and threads on that. I must have not seen those threads. Or did see them and forgot. But there’s a very fundamental issue here. If the global economy is dependent on continuous GDP growth, then regardless of what we may or may not do about critical issues like climate change (and we’re not doing much) continuous growth necessarily implies continuous increase of resource consumption and continuous environmental devastation. Where does it end? Corporations with short-term myopia don’t care. But ultimately this pattern of continual increased consumption, if continued without restraint, **has** to end with extinction. There is simply no other alternative. The flora and fauna that we depend on to sustain our life and environment will most likely come first, and then we will follow. This is ultimately the price of our current **and unsustainable** economic model of continuous growth. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2026, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things-asshole-tourists-in-japan/1002391/263 "2026-06-25T14:27:18Z")
Somali will serve the full sentence (only six months but still) > **[Streamer Johnny Somali Loses Appeal, Will Serve Full Sentence in South Korea](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/streamer-johnny-somali-loses-appeal-100933289.html)** > > Johnny Somali's appeal was denied, keeping him in prison for controversial actions at a memorial site. Learn more here. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things-asshole-tourists-in-japan/1002391/264 "2026-06-28T08:03:38Z")
If I recall correctly, he will also have to register as a sex offender when he returns to the United States. That’s going to do wonders for his international travel prospects for more “nuisance streaming”. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things-asshole-tourists-in-japan/1002391/265 "2026-06-28T13:34:15Z")
I visited Israel a couple of years ago with a large international group. And in hotel restaurants, all of us were shocked by the number of little kids running around, screaming, fighting with each other, and sticking their hands into buffet food items. (Or tasting items and putting them back.) Israeli child-rearing appears to be a lot more permissive of kids doing “outdoor” stuff indoors than any other place I’ve visited. I’m sure there are both advantages and disadvantages to that. But i think the only reasonable way to protect the art is to use more physical barriers (glass, whatever) between the art and the patrons. And that has disadvantages, too. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things-asshole-tourists-in-japan/1002391/266 "2026-06-28T13:56:27Z")
How do you know they were all Israeli kids? ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2026, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things-asshole-tourists-in-japan/1002391/267 "2026-06-28T14:18:15Z")
They spoke Hebrew. The little boys wore kippot. And this was typical at most (all?) of the hotels we stayed at. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things-asshole-tourists-in-japan/1002391.md?page=13)