In October 2024, Russian-speaking Telegram channels reported that in Japan there were posters comparing dark-skinned with monkeys in the metro wagons and reminding them that they were not in the entertainment park. It is reported that in this way transport companies are fighting with the inappropriate behavior of visitors. We checked the correctness of such publications.
On October 30, images of posters allegedly hung in the subway in an unnamed Japanese city spread in Telegram channels. On the same poster with the signature “Please take care of others” - three monkeys in the wagon, interfering with other passengers: a fox, protein and a bear with a bear. On the other, there is a prohibiting sign with a dancing black man inside him and the inscription: “No circus performances here. Japan is not a thematic entertainment park. ” Bloggers claim that posters are turned to black passengers - they supposedly behave inappropriately, pester people and shoot a video for Tiktok directly in filled wagons.
This was reported, for example, "Ax+"(2.2 million views at the time of writing this analysis),"KB +18"(305 000),"Dual"(298 000),"Exploit"(168 000), Kosti (144,000), "Voblya • News"(133,000),"Ether 18+"(130,000),"Mousetrap"(127 000) and 4ch (110 000).
Poster with monkeys
In the lower left corner of the poster shows the logo of the transport company TOEIwhich owns one of the two main systems of underground railways in the Japanese capital. On the Carrier's website viral poster published In the section "posters about manners" along with several others. Each of them is accompanied by signatures in Japanese, Chinese and English and is dedicated to behavior in a certain situation: for example, a poster with ducks calls first of all to let people out of the car and only then come in. As TOEI explains, in this way the company is trying to remind passengers of the importance of compliance with etiquette during the trip.
At the same time, no racial, ethnic, social or other groups of passengers in the corresponding section on the site are mentioned. Primates depicted on the viral poster, suggest Media, refer to a popular image in Japan Three monkeys: plumping ears covering his mouth and closing his eyes. However, the animals do not do this on the poster.
These posters are available on the TOEI website since 2023. Similar social advertising in the Tokyo metro Started Place at least three years earlier, but before that it was decorated in the style of the manga comics.
So, on the website of the transport company it is not said that the poster with the monkeys is directed against black tourists. This is one of the series of posters with different animals demonstrating the rules of behavior in the Tokyo metro for passengers of all races, ages and genders - both local and visitors.
Poster with a black dancer
"Verified" failed to find this poster on the site TOEInor on the website of the operator of the second Tokyo metro - Tokyo Metronor on the sites of Japanese departments and organizations governing the transport sphere. Authoritative Japanese and foreign media about him (unlike, for example, a poster with monkeys) also did not write. The manner of drawing is also different - posters published on the TOEI website are made in the style characteristic of Japanese fine art.
Reverse search by the image showed that for the first time it Published User of the social network X @lamazense October 24 at 12:14 pm Moscow time. In this blog often Appear Posts against dark -skinned ones - mainly in English. It is noteworthy that an hour later @lamazense published an identical poster with a white -skinned character, but he did not viral.
In this blog you can find others Images It is impossible to establish about the uncultured behavior of tourists in Japan, on which the character looks schematical and his ethnic affiliation is impossible.
Its authorship @lamazense confirmed A few days later in a commentary on the tweet containing his work.
However, the phrase “Japan is not a thematic entertainment park” was not invented by a blogger. Recently, the country has been fixing a sharp increase in the flow of tourists - only in the first half of 2024, by data the authorities, more than 21 million foreigners visited Japan, and by the end of December their number, as Expected, exceed the indicators of the premium 2019. This Related Not only with the removal of restrictions introduced because of the pandemic, but also with a significant drop in the course of Jena, which, presumably, made Japan more accessible to travelers. However, the influx of tourists is not pleasing to all the Japanese - back in December 2023, the council of residents of the Gion district in Kyoto He called The city authorities take measures against foreigners who do not comply with the rules of conduct - interfering with geisha and ignoring signs with a request to stay at a distance and not touch the traditional kimono. In that appeal, a phrase about the entertainment park, which later appeared in the viral picture, was also mentioned.
Japanese state bodies listened to citizens and began to introduce restrictions for tourists. So, in March 2024, Kyoto authorities Forbidden Travelers go to some streets in the popular geisha area. In April in one of the cities near Mount Fuji Installed High fence at the popular photo zone among visitors. According to the local administration, many tourists, trying to take a successful picture, go to the roadway, interfere with local residents, and also leave garbage behind. However, in none of these cases, the responsible departments did not blame the dark -skinned visitors (moreover, according to the official data, the vast majority of tourists come to Japan from neighboring Asian countries).
The earliest Russian -speaking publication that contains posters about the fight against black tourists and which was able to find "verified", appeared In the Telegram channel "Exploit" on October 30 at 07:44 Moscow time. This channel refers to fast User X @patrioticos_rd, which appeared the day before. Its author writes that the authorities of Japan have officially banned the dark -skinned dance in the room and placed posters comparing those with the monkeys. The description of the @Patrioticos_rd profile says that this blog is conducted by an influenter from the Dominican Republic. There is also a link to YouTube channelWhere a blogger calls himself a patriotic guardian and a conservative who spreads family values.
Thus, this poster, although it refers to a problem that is really existing in Japan, was not posted in the metro wagons of a Japanese city. The image was the first to publish the user X, who regularly acts with racist statements, and later the picture began to be distributed with an erroneous signature by other right bloggers.
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