The worst kind of tourists
Straight from the Japanese Make the Best Tourists Department comes a report that students from Gifu City Women’s College are in hot water for defacing the Cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, Italy during an overseas study tour by writing the date, their names, and the names of their friends with an oil-based marker on the marble wall. The cathedral is included on the U.N. Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s World Heritage List.
Initially the college suspected a female student and responded by issuing a strict warning, but later three males were identified as the culprits. The three have been suspended.
The college found out about the misbehavior of its students when a Japanese tourist contacted the college via e-mail.
I daresay the boss of UNESCO Koichiro Matsuura will be having some words to say on the incident as well..tourists are in someway like mini-ambassadors for the country that they hale from, and its letting the team down a bit when you do things that you would never think of doing in your own country.
That is my personal opinion.
Question: in what year were Japanese allowed to make private trips overseas after the Second World War?.
rem.
June 29th, 2008 at 8:24 amwhen I went to find out a little more about Matsuura-san I was surprised to be confronted
with this..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Koichiro_Matsuura.JPG
has he upset somebody? or is it the work of those Lady College scallywags?
remora
June 29th, 2008 at 8:35 amWell, back four or five years ago there was a Japanese tourist carving his initials in a moai on Easter Island. I frankly surprises me it took so long for another incident to be brought to light.
June 29th, 2008 at 10:02 amThen there was the TV station diver/cameraman, who carved initials into the coral down in Okinawa, so he could document disfiguration of the natural environment.
June 29th, 2008 at 12:03 pm