History Main / JapaneseTourist

* Jay jumps onto a tour bus filled with Japanese tourists in the second opening sequence of ''MenInBlack''.

Before the bubble burst on the Japanese economy, waves and waves of tourists were coming overseas. In any ChaseScene or crowd scene, expect there to be such a group of tourists, who just ooh and ahh at the main action and take pictures while flashing the VSign at one another. This has not quite passed into DeadHorseTrope territory, as plenty of Japanese still do travel overseas in RealLife, and tend to do so in large tour groups due to low levels of foreign-language proficiency and a lack of Japanese speakers and signage in other countries. Such groups are very likely to contain keen and very well equipped photographers. However, it shows up quite a bit less now than TheEighties and TheNineties.

A subtrope of FunnyForeigner. Compare with the HawaiianShirtedTourist, the {{Eagleland}} equivalent.

* A pair of Japanese tourists show up in time for a fight between CaptainAmerica and the IncredibleHulk. Amusing in that the speech bubbles contain kanji (the Japanese writing system), and in the caption box, [[TranslationConvention where one would expect a translation into English]], is only a translation into the romanized spelling of those words.

* In an episode of AreYouBeingServed, a JapaneseTourist comes into the store with his "[[JapaneseRanguage Cledit Caa]]" (Sooooooo!). Captain Peacock's attempts to communicate with him are at least as hilarious as the tourist himself ("You wanty buy?" "Whaty-wanty?"). He ends up falling down the stairs and having his head stuck in one of Mr. Mash's buckets.

* As anyone who has worked at a tourist attraction can attest, this trope is TruthInTelevision. A few years ago, this Troper worked at an interactive museum in Ohio, and every day, there was at least one group of Japanese tourists, and they posed beside EVERYTHING to have their pictures taken by their travel buddies. They would even ask, in the English that they knew, to have their pictures taken with people who worked there.

*** Similar to how in the US Native Americans joke about selling shit to white americans and ripping them off?

*** And the autoctones will give you a funny look if you try to NOT behave like a visiting weaboo (at least in the most tourist-oriented spots; Kaminari-mon springs to mind.)

* ''{{Foul Play}}'' with Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase, Chevy needs to reach the Opera house in a hurry, so he commandeers a cab with a Japanese tourist couple in it.

* After returning from one of his escapades, the protagonist of ''LeisureSuitLarry: Love For Sail'' stumbles upon a group of camera-wielding Japanese tourists.

*** and the autoctones will give you a funny look if you try to NOT behave like a visiting weaboo (at least in the most tourist-oriented spots; Kaminari-mon springs to mind.

* At the the beginning of the third AustinPowers movie there were a couple of these.
** Despite the fact that their names are [[DidNotDoTheResearch clearly not Japanese]]. But hey, Rule of Funny and all that.

* An unconventional example is ''{{Inception}}'', in which Japanese businessman Saito is specifically referred to as a "tourist" for accompanying the team into the dreams.

->--Every Japanese tourist in any given monster movie

The trope usually pokes fun at their tendency to snap photos, travel in huge groups, and behave like they're visiting a zoo.

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* Actually played with in ''{{Moonwalker}}'' during the "Speed Demon" segment, where Michael runs into a herd of tromping feet and flashing cameras.

* There is an entire busload of this trope in ''Under the Rainbow'' starring Chevy Chase and Carrie Fisher.

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* One of these shows up at [[AreYouBeingServed Grace Brothers]] (though the name of the episode escapes me). He repeatedly mentions his "[[JapaneseRanguage Cledit Caa]]," has the habit of bowing and saying "''soooooooooooo''" at the slightest provocation, and ends up falling down the stairs and having his head stuck in one of Mr. Mash's buckets.
* In an episode of AreYouBeingServed, a JapaneseTourist comes into the store with his "[[JapaneseRanguage Cledit Caa]]" (Sooooooo!). Captain Peacock's attempts to communicate with him are at least as hilarious as the tourist himself ("You wanty buy?" "Whaty-wanty?")

* A joke I once heard, that went thus: A criminal recently tried to hijack a bus filled with Japanese tourists. The police are currently overloaded trying to catalogue 2,347 pieces of photographic evidence.