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Chie Maeda, president of Tokyo Luxey, a travel agency that specializes in cultural experience programs for well-to-do foreign travelers. Wealthy travelers from abroad are willing to pay big money for cultural experiences in Japan, and the tourism industry is shifting to accommodate them.
The country reopens next month – much to the dismay of locals claiming that tourists sites have been much more enjoyable without foreigners
Why Tokyo's elite are staging a backlash against the Olympics The pandemic has thrown plans into disarray, but the city's movers and shakers are reluctant to celebrate the games 24 July 2021 • 5:00am The opening ceremony finally got underway this week, after a year of delays and re-arranging Shigeru Kaneko pauses from tidying the coffee shop he has run for 45 years and recalls a favourite childhood memory: the moment he watched the jubilant opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics in 1964. “I was just a schoolboy at the time,” smiles Kaneko, 70, a neatly-pressed Tokyo 2020 t-shirt peeking...