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The Goldilocks zone of messiness

Tourists flock to Japan to bask in the country’s orderliness. But has a refusal to tolerate chaos killed its capacity for risk?
Warning flags in Japanese and English about littering and on-the-spot fines are posted on street poles in busy Shibuya, Tokyo.

Shinto, sashimi, Shibuya Crossing and shunga are all very well but it’s getting harder to escape the conclusion that what tourists really cross the world to Japan for is the relaxing caress of a functional society.

Holidays are about escape and orderliness amid global disorder feels increasingly like freedom. There is genuine, cross-generational allure these days, in the promise of refuge from messiness — both actual and abstract. But is Japan offering too much of a good thing?

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