Japanese Vacation | the manifesto

Every Monday, for about ten years now, a program called YOU wa nani shi ni nihon e? (Why did you come to Japan?) has been broadcast on Japanese television, in which the interviewer meets foreign visitors arriving in the country, usually at Tokyo’s two main airports. After asking what they came to do in the archipelago, the program follows them around the country, if their visit has any particular interest for television. Aside from the fact that the people stopped are mostly from Western countries, Chinese tourists, or from…