@MarkMedina05@Kshi_nippon no. it doesn't make sense. you can always make space for a translation and that doesn't mean "sacrificing your culture and your language". especially in tokyo, one of the most important and visited metropolises in the world. japanese signs will always be there.
@yukarichacha15@FiveMike73769@Kshi_nippon 3- try taking the english signs off. when you have a lot of tourists standing in the middle of the way taking pictures of signs, asking for directions and going to the wrong places all the time, don't complain if it's a nuisance.
@yukarichacha15@FiveMike73769@Kshi_nippon 4- we should also start asking japanese people to learn french before going to france, korean before going to korea, etc., right? if they don't have the time to learn other languages, they shouldn't get outside japan.
@yukarichacha15@FiveMike73769@Kshi_nippon 3- try taking the english signs off. when you have a lot of tourists standing in the middle of the way taking pictures of signs, asking for directions and going to the wrong places all the time, don't complain if it's a nuisance.
@femboyinspace@yukarichacha15@FiveMike73769@Kshi_nippon not knowing one of the hardest languages in the world doesn't equate to being a "shit quality traveller". so any decent person who wants to visit japan for a few weeks has to put years of their life into japanese? imagine if it was the same for every country you wanted to visit.
@yukarichacha15@FiveMike73769@Kshi_nippon and also, in every sign the priority is given to japanese. there is just an English translation next to it.
there isn't any benefit to taking english signs away.
@yukarichacha15@FiveMike73769@Kshi_nippon in my country and many other countries, we have signs in our language and in english, which is the most spoken language in the world. we don't have signs specifically in japanese, just like in japan there aren't signs in french or spanish.
@MarkMedina05@Kshi_nippon adding a simple translation to avoid having almost every single non-japanese get lost all the time (which would be a real problem) isn't "sacrificing culture"
@yukarichacha15@FiveMike73769@Kshi_nippon do you really think a tourist has to learn AT LEAST hundreds of kanji, hiragana/katakana, words, grammar, etc. just to visit Japan for 14 days? do you understand the difficulty? you don't.
everyone would be lost. it'd be WAY worse.
just leave the signs there. who do they bother?
@Kshi_nippon why is there a debate about this? who does it bother? just leave it as is, it helps a lot of people, and there are probably way more important matters to discuss...