History Main / JapaneseTourist

* A pair of Japanese tourists show up in time for a fight between ComicBook/CaptainAmerica and the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk. Amusing in that the speech bubbles contain [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseWritingSystem kanji]], and in the caption box, [[TranslationConvention where one would expect a translation into English]], is only a transliteration into the romanized spelling of those words.

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* As anyone who has worked at a tourist attraction can attest, this trope is TruthInTelevision.
* A curious culture-bound psychological phenomenon that appears to be almost entirely unique to Japanese tourists visiting the French capital exists in the form of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome Paris syndrome]], or "pari shōkōgun". This condition produces symptoms akin to intense stress and disappointment, even manifesting as heart palpitations or derealisation. Scientists from institutions in Japan have discovered that Paris syndrome appears to be the result of culture clash and of expecting Paris to be much greater than the fairly standard European capital city (landmarks notwithstanding) it turns out to be.
** Apparently it even occurs in Japan. Ainu artist Bikky Sunazawa [[TropeNamer coined the term]] "kanko Ainu" to describe Ainu who made their money selling art to tourists from Honshu. In fact, given that Japan has a ''very'' active internal tourism industry, it's actually the other way round. The amount of Japanese tourists going to foreign destinations is many times lower than those touring their homeland, so the ones we see are actually just a tiny outflow of the innumerable hordes going back and forth at home. You have a much, much higher chance of meeting a stereotypical Japanese Tourist ''in Japan'' than abroad.
** Hilariously, going to Japan will make ''[[InvertedTrope you]]'' into this. Everything is so different you'll want to take photos of it all.
** And Japanese people will give you a funny look if you try to NOT behave like a visiting weaboo (at least in the most tourist-oriented spots; Kaminari-mon springs to mind).
** In America, the Ride/DisneyThemeParks are probably the most popular vacation destination for Japanese tourists.
** In the United Kingdom, tourism from Japan remained strong quite some way after the bubble burst, right up until the 2008 Great Recession commenced, and is still quite prominent nowadays. Other than London, popular locations for tours to visit include Stonehenge, Oxford, York and other notable towns and cities across the UK.
* Just to illustrate a photography bit: one of the largest electronics retail chains in Japan? Yodobashi ''Camera''. Their major competitor? Bic ''Camera''. Japanese are indeed big on photos.
* In an anecdote from Molly Ivins, where she visits a village in the Himalayas for humanitarian work, one of her blonde, blue-eyed travelmates is mistaken by the natives for Japanese, since, "what else would a person with three cameras be?"
* And then there's [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/03/toshifumi-fujimoto-syria-war-tourism_n_2400576.html Toshifumi Fujimoto,]] a Japanese Tourist who tours [[UpToEleven ''war zones'']].
* Tours aimed at east Asians are set up like this, with most of the time spent on the bus and designed for the tourists to take pictures as the bus travels by, rather than actually visiting any of the locations or buying anything.
* For many UsefulNotes/{{Florid|a}}ians, especially those living in and around UsefulNotes/{{Miami}} and UsefulNotes/{{Orlando}}, this trope can more accurately be called the UsefulNotes/{{Brazil}}ian Tourist. In the 2000s, Brazil enjoyed an economic boom, and while it has leveled off since, the country is still far more prosperous than it was before. They love Miami's beaches and clubs and Orlando's [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks theme]] [[Ride/UniversalStudios parks]] (which now print more maps in Portuguese than they do Spanish) as much as any tourists to Florida, and like their Japanese counterparts, they often show up in enormous tour groups. The main stereotype about them, however, is that [[https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/brazilian-tourist-invasion/index.html they love to shop,]] as Brazil's protectionist trade policy combined with a booming economy has created a middle class that doesn't have the means to pay thousands of US dollars for a high-end cell phone, but ''does'' have the means to buy a plane ticket to Florida and the same phone for a few hundred dollars at one of the Sunshine State's many [[TheMall shopping malls]], with money left over for a vacation on top of it.
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A subtrope of FunnyForeigner. If they get a chance to talk, may often use AsianSpeekeeEngrish. Compare with HawaiianShirtedTourist and UglyAmericanStereotype, the {{Eagleland}} equivalent.

A subtrope of FunnyForeigner. If they get a chance to talk, may often use AsianSpeekeeEngrish. Compare with the HawaiianShirtedTourist, the {{Eagleland}} equivalent.

** Twoflower was essentially the FantasyCounterpartCulture of this. The movie version gets a Caucasian RaceLift and is much more the HawaiianShirtedTourist, likely on the grounds that it was a more {{Acceptable Target|s}}.

* Japan/Honda Kiku from ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia'', even moreso in Japanese fanart.

** The "Misutaa Supaakuru!" tourists from the eighth-season episode "In Marge We Trust". The comment at the top of the page about Japanese tourists acting like they were in a zoo, the tourists from that episode ''were'' in a zoo when they appeared.

* Japanese tourists are photographing a Dutch windmill when Creator/LeslieNielsen [[TheDoorSlamsYou suddenly opens the door, knocking the miller into the path of the sails]]. Nielsen then proceeds to explain the benefits of Dutchtone, unaware that the tourists gasps of amazement are over the miller traveling round and round on the windmill sails.

* In the classic''Film/TheThreeStooges '' short I’ll Never Heil Again, the Tojo parody is prone to taking pictures of the Axels during the fight at the end

* At the the beginning of ''Film/AustinPowersInGoldmember'' there are a couple of Asian tourists.

--> '''Tourist #1''': Franchise/{{Godzilla}}!
--> '''Tourist #2''': No, [[CaptainObvious it's a giant baby]]!

* ''Film/RosemarysBaby'' features a puzzling example in the end when [[spoiler:a gathering of all the local Satanists we've seen throughout the film also inexplicably includes a Japanese tourist who smiles, snaps photographs and chants "Hail Satan!" in a thick accent along with the rest of the witches]].

-->'''Dan Fielding''': Mr. Hubbell was on his way to a seminar on subway hospitality, when he was mugged outside of city hall.

-->'''Billie Young''': And after pleading with several passer-bys for bus fare, Mr. Hubbell attempted to panhandle from a group of Japanese tourists. They turned him down.

* Influential SynthPop band Music/YellowMagicOrchestra invoked this in the lyrics in their cover of Archie Bell's Tighten Up, saying [[WaxingLyrical they don't sight see, they dance.]]

** Creator/StephenMerchant was out with his friends one day, and some Japanese tourists stopped them and asked if they were Music/NSync, to which they answered "Yes we are." Stephen, being 6' 7", questions how they could have made that mistake, since no member of N Sync is that much taller than the others.

** ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' introduces the "Sightseer" class. It is based on American tourists stereotypes but many Sightseers are from Japanese-based regions. The game is set in Alola, a FantasyCounterpartCulture to Hawaii. Almost all of them exclusively use the regular variants of Pokémon that were given Alolan forms in ''Sun and Moon''.

* In the classic''Film/ThreeStooges '' short I’ll Never Heil Again, the Tojo parody is prone to taking pictures of the Axels during the fight at the end

* ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark''. When the tyrannosaurus rex escapes in San Diego, a group of Japanese tourists are seen running away from it. There's a BilingualBonus too: they're saying "I left Japan to get away from this!" in Japanese, a ShoutOut to the Franchise/Godzilla movies.

* ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark''. When the tyrannosaurus rex escapes in San Diego, a group of Japanese tourists are seen running away from it. There's a BilingualBonus too: they're saying "I left Japan to get away from this!" in Japanese, a ShoutOut to the Godzilla movies.

** In ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'', an Agatean tourist is in the crowd at the procession, taking lots of pictures that Carrot later uses as evidence in investigating the failed assassination of Prince Khufurah.

* Twoflower from ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' was essentially the FantasyCounterpartCulture of this. The movie version gets a Caucasian RaceLift and is much more the HawaiianShirtedTourist, likely on the grounds that it was a more [[AcceptableTarget acceptable target.]]

** And Japanese people will give you a funny look if you try to NOT behave like a visiting weaboo (at least in the most tourist-oriented spots; Kaminari-mon springs to mind.)

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* ''Series/TheThreeStooges'': In ''Film/IllNeverHeilAgain'', a meeting between the Axis powers (1940) goes awry, a Hirohito caricature periodically stops everyone to pose so he could take a picture.

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* A cutscene in ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry: Love For Sail'' goes like this: after returning from one of his disastrous sexual escapades, the protagonist stumbles upon a group of camera-wielding Japanese tourists. Who take very embarrassing photos of [[NakedPeopleAreFunny his butt-naked self]].

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