I made a simple awareness poster for tourists visiting Japan. As a student preparing to study in Japan, it saddens me to see the growing concerns around tourists/gaijins . So I created this as a small effort to raise awareness. I believe this poster will help at least few people through the help of this sub, so if it's possible please pin the posters.
funfact: got this idea from some granny working in a shrine in kyoto in a youtube video
drive link : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17EgIaEHSL3udY4pTOy3pbOUnzcEaatV2?usp=sharing
by Jealous_Machine_6875
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I think you can do more to raise awareness posting TikTok videos, but anything helps.
Why are there dozens of posts out there with the same “I made a simple awareness poster for tourists …” comment and all from different people??
As I already replied to one, the poster won’t change anything as the threshold of tourist has already reached he’s such a low that their arrogance and ignorance will make all the effort useless. The damage has already been done and the locals start venting their frustration online and some might go a bit further by meeting the disrespect of tourists with aggression and perhaps also violence. I had my fair share with dealing with shameful behavior of tourists and patience is wearing thin…
Nice work! Where will you share this for tourists to read it?
If you’re open to it, I might throw this in the art or design critique subs.
It looks great but could be refined.
For example why is it only the box on privacy that thanks people? I’d remove the thank you. Then that will give you more space to fix the text margins on the right side of that box.
You might consider a bit of a drop Shadow behind the titles as they are hard to read when overlapping the images.
For the carry your trash image it might be good to show a purse with a wrapper in it or something like that to connect the instructions to the image.
In the last box English should be capitalized.
The Gaijin issue!? Most of us living here long term are responsible and respectful so why are we the issue?
Awareness is a good thing. But tourists being tourists, like anywhere else in the world, the real asshole remedy remains fines fines fines, like in Singapore.
Pretty cool effort. The only thing I would suggest though is that maybe you don’t use a children’s randoseru school bag as the garbage icon. Maybe switch those around.
Watched three American guys
outside 7-Eleven inhale onigiri like they’d been fasting for a pilgrimage.
One of them shouted “I could conquer this city” while stuffing his face.
Another tore his open with his teeth and screamed “THE SEAWEED ONE IS THE BEST” before throwing it into the street..
The third guy shouted then pulled out a bottle of sake and they all started chanting about the Chicago Cubs
They seemed so wasted, it was honestly the strangest thing I have ever seen!
If only ignorant Americans gave a shit about this great graphic
There are already posters being made and distributed by local governments. The major problem they run into is that they’re generally presented in such a way that they feel like scolding rather than encouragement.
Maybe also skip using the word “gaijin” casually if you want to avoid sounding like a tourist too.
A nice idea but this will only work with tourists from a culture that respects others, and the other more hate filled jingoistic cultures will just ignore it and keep doing the same. This is why the true only alternative to the issue is stronger vetting.
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