History Main / JapaneseTourist

* ''Series/TheThreeStooges'': When a meeting between the Axis powers (before the war officially started) goes awry, a Hirohito caricature periodically stops everyone to pose so he could take a picture.

* In the ''Literature/ThursdayNext'' books, Thursday meets two at [[JaneEyre Thornfield Hall]], where they can tour the estate and even meet Mr Rochester and the other characters. (Mrs. Nakajima, the leader, apparently makes a living off it.) They make a point of staying out of Jane's way so that they don't disturb the narrative.

* One ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' episode, a Japanese salaryman traveling with his son meets up with and has friendly conversation with the character Masahiro Takenaka, who he thinks looks familiar (Takenaka is a terrorist and fugitive- he actually looks familiar because his face is on wanted posters). Takenaka is based upon [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozo_Okamoto Kozo Okamoto]], and the implication seems to be that the last time he was at an airport, he was blowing it up.

* And then there's [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/03/toshifumi-fujimoto-syria-war-tourism_n_2400576.html Toshifumi Fujimoto]], a Japanese Tourist who tours [[UpToEleven ''war zones'']].

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

* The cover of August 1952 edition of the sci-fi magazine ''Galaxy'' had LittleGreenMen in spacesuits snapping away with camers as they wandered around an Earth metropolis.

** ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' introduces the "Sightseer" class. It is based on American tourists stereotypes but many Sightseers are from Japanese-based regions. The game is set in Alola, a FantasyCounterpartCulture to Hawaii.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=434xd6c0a6M&t=0m40s One game of Weird Newscasters]] on ''WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' saw ''Wayne Brady'' getting this role. That's not how NWordPrivileges works, people...

** ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' introduces the "Tourist" class. It is based on American tourists stereotypes but many Tourists are from Japanese-based regions. The game is set in Alola, a FantasyCounterpartCulture to Hawaii.

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* In ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'', Seras uses a group of elderly Japanese tourists to break up a fight between Alucard and [[KnightTemplar Alexander Anderson]] in a museum, requiring the two combatants to freeze in place and be treated like statues. [[HilarityEnsues It's just as funny as it sounds.]]
** Made doubly hilarious by one of the gramps complaining to his friend, while pointing at the Alucard's [[HandCannon enormous guns]], that "[[UsefulNotes/KatanasOfTheRisingSun they]] [[WithThisHerring didn't have that]] [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII in Manchuria]]".

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* ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', which are set in a FantasyCounterpartCulture version of France, features a new trainer class called Tourist. All of them look distinctly Asian, have Japanese names, and only use Pokémon from the first four generations (which took place in FantasyCounterpartCulture Japan).

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* The "Misutaa Supaakuru!" tourists from the eighth-season [[TheSimpsons Simpsons]] episode "In Marge We Trust". The comment at the top of the page about Japanese tourists acting like they were in a zoo, the tourists from that episode ''were'' in a zoo when they appeared.

* In ''Film/CrocodileDundee 2'', two camera-toting salarymen on holiday in New York City help Dundee take down a hitman using flash photography and a karate kick. Afterwards, they convince each other that Dundee was Creator/ClintEastwood.

* ''Film/TakingOfPelhamOneTwoThree'' evokes this by having a group of Japanese officials receiving a tour of the subway, behaving in much the same way that Japanese tourists do. Lt. Garber, annoyed at the assignment, shepherds them around and provides sarcastic English commentary, only to discover in the end that they [[BilingualBackfire all speak perfect English]].

* Alex Rider runs in front of a group of Japanese tourists and happens to be caught in their photo in ''[[AlexRider Eagle Strike]]''.

** Hilariously, going to Japan will make [[InvertedTrope ''you'']] into this. Everything is so different you'll want to take photos of it all.

** Made doubly hilarious by one of the gramps complaining to his friend, while pointing at the Alucard's [[HandCannon enormous guns]], that "[[UsefulNotes/KatanasOfTheRisingSun they]] [[WithThisHerring didn't have that]] [[WorldWarII in Manchuria]]".

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* There's a group of these in ''{{The Adventures of Willy Beamish}}''. If you're nice to them, they [[spoiler:turn out to be disguised ninjas, who save you from a death by gang beating.]]

** Hilariously, going to Japan will make ''you'' into this. Everything is so different you'll want to take photos of it all.

* And then there's [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/03/toshifumi-fujimoto-syria-war-tourism_n_2400576.html Toshifumi Fujimoto]], a Japanese Tourist who tours ''war zones''.

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

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* In ''{{Hellsing}}'', Seras uses a group of elderly Japanese tourists to break up a fight between Alucard and [[KnightTemplar Alexander Anderson]] in a museum, requiring the two combatants to freeze in place and be treated like statues. [[HilarityEnsues It's just as funny as it sounds.]]

* Invoked in ''[[Manga/MidoriNoHibi Midori Days]]'' when the cast meet Daniel (who is himself {{Eagleland}} personified). He complains that Seiji – a delinquent with bleached hair – looks nothing like how he expected Japanese to look. So he gives Seiji an impromptu makeover to fit his preconceived stereotype... including a salaryman haircut, glasses, large front teeth, and yes a camera around his neck.

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

* ''{{Metal Gear Solid 2}}'': Rose and Raiden reminisce about a group of Japanese tourists they had met in New York who asked which building King Kong had climbed on.

->"''Ahh! Franchise/{{Godzilla}}!''"
-->-- '''Every Japanese tourist in any given monster movie'''

** In "A Star is Burns", Bart has an ImagineSpot of him selling fake maps to celebrities' homes to a family of Japanese tourists. Cue said tourists going up to Moe's door and mistaking him for Drew Barrymore.