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Re:Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses by NalNezumi on Friday July 11, 2025 @10:09AM (#44532345)
https://www.reddit.com/r/funnysigns/comments/1getgra/a_resta...

Edit: The red text at the bottom says: この日本語が読める方は、 ご入店くださいませ = "if you can read this Japanese text, please come in"

Edit 2: just the original reddit post link then

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Re:Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses by mrln on Friday July 11, 2025 @10:50AM (#44532788)
The link is dead
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Re:Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses by imp0cat on Friday July 11, 2025 @10:57AM (#44532865)
It's not.

However this is easily "beaten" by using circle to search -> translate on your smart phone.

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Re:Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses by abcd_f on Friday July 11, 2025 @11:06AM (#44532982)
After "beating" it with a translator, take a hint and don't enter still.
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Re:Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses by DaSHacka on Friday July 11, 2025 @11:31AM (#44533315)
Xenophobia: :(

Xenophobia, Japan: :)

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Re:Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses by bee_rider on Friday July 11, 2025 @11:08AM (#44533003)
I guess the trick will be less effective to the extent to which people try to work around it. But,

1) most people wouldn’t bother to translate something with a fake translation right above it

2) why do people want to go places they aren’t welcome? It is good to let the locals have some things…

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Re:Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses by Tainnor on Friday July 11, 2025 @02:03PM (#44535234)
To be fair, that's not a very difficult sentence to read for someone who has studied a moderate amount of Japanese. Doesn't mean you could actually order food.
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Re:Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses by Pooge on Friday July 11, 2025 @02:03PM (#44535235)
But if you can't read Japanese, you would enter because you don't understand the sign in the first place...
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Re:Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses by anigbrowl on Friday July 11, 2025 @07:12PM (#44537735)
You obviously didn't click through to look at the sign, which says in both Japanese and English 'No vacancy', with the language endorsement in smaller text at the bottom.
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Re:Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses by Pooge on Saturday July 12, 2025 @01:44AM (#44539620)
Indeed I didn't. Reddit is blocked on my network.
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