[OM] Re: Japan

[jking]

>
> I just got back from a tour of Japan. Amazing people and country. Felt
> like a barbarian in a wonderful new place. With all the Japanese
> tourists who tour their own country I was surprised to see very little
> in the way of DSLRs. Mostly little digicams and legions of people
> holding their cellphones up to the sights. An even older guy who was an
> adult during WWII engaged me in conversation in Heroshima, took several
> very studied shots of me with his Nikon F80 and promised me a print in
> the mail. I sort of wished I was Japanese.
>

My experiences of working in Japan echo this. I got caught up in a second
world war demonstration. My first thoughts were sh*t this is not going to
be nice. Turned out it was a demonstration against the Japanese goverment
doing somthing that as crazy again...
Tourism for the Japanese seems to be about being at the place rather than
anything else. You can buy a card with all the temples on it, go to the
temple and get the box stamped and then leave... (NO I did not do this
when I worked out there!) I felt simular attitude in China. Organised
Chinese tours are terribly fast. You don't get time to focus before they
move on....



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