Blame tourist for all your countries problems
Refuse tourist into many Izakayas for decades
Fail to capture the tourist market for decades
Prices rise and force out much of the native population
Try to pivot to the same tourist you told to GTFO and never marketed to
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FORECLOSURE!
Literal pottery.
Not a smart marketing decision to gatekeep Izakayas from people with money. Many tourist out earn even the most skilled of salarymen by a wide margin. Not marketing to this group has been a massive mistake, foolish.
Have you ever been to Japan? These “signs” are virtually nonexistent in the cities. I’ve spent ~4m of my life in Japan cumulatively and have never once seen an actual “no foreigners allowed” sign and have never had trouble getting food. This is a complete fabrication by Americans to justify racism.
They absolutely exist in towns. If you go outside the more urban areas you’ll spot some.