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Americans Suddenly Fell in Love With Japan — Not Because It's Cheap, Because It's Normal

The real driver of Japan's tourism explosion isn't the exchange rate, it's the functionality of public space — clean subways, on time, no trash. What American visitors experience in Tokyo is a society where entropy has been paused.

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