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== Advertising ==
 
* In ana Dutch national lottery commercial, one of the number balls is seen mooning a bus full of Japanese tourists in America. Later, a tourist points this out to the police at the station.
 
 
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== Comics ==
 
* A pair of Japanese tourists show up in time for a fight between [[Captain America (comics)|Captain America]] and the [[Incredible Hulk]]. Amusing in that the speech bubbles contain kanji (the Japanese writing system), and in the caption box, [[Translation Convention|where one would expect a translation into English]], is only a transliteration into the romanized spelling of those words.
 
 
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* There is an entire busload of this trope in ''Under the Rainbow'' starring Chevy Chase and Carrie Fisher.
* In an early scene in ''[[Airplane!]]'', a Japanese tourist at the airport terminal loses his balance after he adds yet another camera onto his already camera-laden shoulder.
* In ''[[X-Men: The Last Stand|X Men the Last Stand]]'', when Magneto detaches the Golden Gate Bridge and moves one end onto Alcatraz Island, there's a cut to a group of Japanese tourists who flee, leaving one astounded man behind a camera on a tripod.
* In ''[[Crocodile Dundee]] 2'', two camera-toting salarymen on holiday in New York City help Dundee take down a hitman using flash photography and a karate kick. Afterwards, they convince each other that Dundee was [[Clint Eastwood]].
 
 
== Literature ==
 
* Twoflower from ''[[Discworld]]'' was essentially the [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]] of this. The movie version gets a Caucasian [[Race Lift]] and is much more the [[Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist]], likely on the grounds that it was a more [[Acceptable TargetTargets|acceptable target.]]
 
== Live Action Television ==
 
* In an episode of ''[[Are You Being Served?|Are You Being Served]]'', a [[Japanese Tourist]] comes into the store with his "[[Japanese Ranguage|Cledit Caa]]" (Sooooooo!). Captain Peacock's attempts to communicate with him are at least as hilarious as the tourist himself ("You wanty buy?" "Whaty-wanty?"). He ends up falling down the stairs and having his head stuck in one of Mr. Mash's buckets.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=434xd6c0a6M&t=0m40s One game of Weird Newscasters] on ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'' saw ''Wayne Brady'' getting this role. That's not how [[N-Word Privileges]] works, people...
 
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== Western Animation ==
 
* The "Misutaa Supaakuru!" tourists from the eighth-season ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|Simpsons]]'' episode "In Marge We Trust". The comment at the top of the page about Japanese tourists acting like they were in a zoo, the tourists from that episode ''were'' in a zoo when they appeared.
** A Japanese tourist family are getting their pictures taken in front of the Simpsons house when their foundation is sinking in "Marge Gets A Job".
 
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** Apparently it even occurs in Japan. Ainu artist Bikky Sunazawa [[Trope Namer|coined the term]] "kanko Ainu" to describe Ainu who made their money selling art to tourists from Honshu.
** Hilariously, going to Japan will make ''you'' into this. Everything is so different you'll want to take photos of it all.
** And Japanese people will give you a funny look if you try to NOT''not'' behave like a visiting weaboo (at least in the most tourist-oriented spots; Kaminari-mon springs to mind.)
** In America, the [[Disney Theme Parks]] are probably the most popular vacation destination for Japanese tourists.
* Just to illustrate a photography bit: one of the largest electronics retail chains in Japan? Yodobashi ''Camera''. Their major competitor? Bic ''Camera''. Japanese are indeed big on photos.