May 24, 2024: Break Down the Barricades, Japan Tops Travel Lists, Dirty Launderer and F-Bomb Cafe.

Japan This Week

In this week's news from Japan Today: A town in Yamanashi Prefecture is so fed up with tourists taking photos of Mount Fuji that it's erected a barrier to block the viral view of the mountain; Japan just ranked third in a list of top world travel destinations released by the World Economic Forum; police in Ibaraki Prefecture have arrested a man after he put his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter in a washing machine and a cafe in Kyushu has a perfectly innocent reason for the spelling of its rather unsettling — some say obscene — name. Rate and review us: itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan…id517133982?mt=2 GaijinPot Jobs: https://jobs.gaijinpot.com/ Japan Today: https://japantoday.com/ This weeks stories: Break Down the Barricades: https://japantoday.com/category/national/Swarmed-with-tourists-town-blocks-off-popular-Mount-Fuji-viewing-spot Japan Tops Travel Lists: https://japantoday.com/category/features/travel/japan-ranks-3rd-among-top-world-travel-destinations-report Dirty Launderer: https://japantoday.com/category/crime/Man-arrested-for-putting-girlfriends-3-year-old-daughter-in-washing-machine F-Bomb Cafe: https://japantoday.com/category/features/food/japanese-cafe-has-perfectly-innocent-reason-for-its-startling-looking-name