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Comment by sosborn

1 day ago

Those signs have nothing to do with protecting culture. Most of the time, they are simply a naive defense against dealing with a population often doesn't speak Japanese very well.

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anigbrowl  21 hours ago

There's no prohibition against requiring customers to be able to speak Japanese, and this works very well as a tourist filter.

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