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		anigbrowl 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small busin... There's no prohibition against requiring customers to be able to speak Japanese, and this works very well as a tourist filter.

ChromaticPanic 6 months ago [–]

The signs say No Foreigners not No non Japanese speakers . A subtle but important difference.

sosborn 6 months ago | [–]

Every time I've come across one of these signs and wanted to patronize the establishment, a friendly chat with the manager in Japanese was always enough to get them to let me in.

YMMV.

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