Regarding the Oct. 15 editorial "Japan as a tourist destination": If Japan wishes to entice more tourists to its shores -- and I suspect that only a minority of Japanese want foreigners visiting anyway -- then it needs to encourage more courtesy while discouraging behavior that smacks of racism. Japanese people seem very polite only to other Japanese people and to foreigners who are in the company of other Japanese.
Why would anyone want to go to a country where they may be turned away from some bars and restaurants, and find that they are treated differently from Japanese people on almost every occasion? My parents came to Japan and vowed never to come back following the disgraceful treatment they suffered on more than one occasion. If more Japanese people lost their superiority complex, people might want to visit.
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