Japan's government releases the nation's latest tourism numbers today, amid signs of fatigue with the unfamiliar influx of foreigners: a record 28.7m visited last year, a three-fold rise since 2008.Over the first eight months of this year, more than 20 million global tourists have traveled to Japan. Although the booming tourism industry has stimulated Japan's economy, the influx of tourists has overrun the island nation. In some of Japan's hottest cities, local residents moan the problem of tourists, and even think it is a "tourist pollution".

In order to alleviate the pressure of economic recession caused by the disappearance of demographic dividend is an important reason for the opening up of inbound tourism. The effect of tourism consumption to stimulate the economy is immediately exciting. In the long run, it is not clear whether such stimulus can be sustained in resource-poor island countries and become the fundamental factor for Japan's economic development. After all, the uniqueness of Japanese culture is one of the foundations of economic take-off. Tourism has not created the glory of Japan's economy, and sacrificing the tranquility of local culture for short-term economic growth may not be worth the loss.Maintaining the people's well-being and long-term stability, limiting the number of people entering the country, promoting Japanese culture among foreigners, and balancing the internal causes and external forces of economic development may avoid going too much of a good thing.

近年來(lái)，赴日旅游人數(shù)呈現(xiàn)井噴式增長(zhǎng)。根據(jù)日本政府最新統(tǒng)計(jì)的旅游數(shù)據(jù)顯示，去年的訪(fǎng)日外國(guó)人數(shù)達(dá)2870萬(wàn)人次，是2008年的三倍。今年頭8個(gè)月，到日本旅游的外國(guó)游客也已超過(guò)2000萬(wàn)人次。雖然旅游業(yè)的蓬勃增長(zhǎng)刺激了日本的經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展，但是大量游客的涌入讓日本這個(gè)島國(guó)面臨重負(fù)。在一些日本熱門(mén)城市中，當(dāng)?shù)鼐用褚矊?duì)游客過(guò)多的問(wèn)題表現(xiàn)不滿(mǎn)，甚至認(rèn)為這是一種“旅游污染”。?

為緩解人口紅利的消失引發(fā)經(jīng)濟(jì)衰退的壓力是開(kāi)放入境游的重要原因，旅游消費(fèi)刺激經(jīng)濟(jì)的立竿見(jiàn)影令人振奮，長(zhǎng)期看來(lái)，在資源貧乏寸土寸金的島國(guó)這種刺激能否持續(xù)并成為日本經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展的根本因素不得而知。畢竟，日本文化的獨(dú)特性是經(jīng)濟(jì)騰飛的基礎(chǔ)之一，旅游業(yè)沒(méi)有創(chuàng)造日本經(jīng)濟(jì)的輝煌，為短期的經(jīng)濟(jì)增長(zhǎng)犧牲本土文化的寧?kù)o或許得不償失，維護(hù)國(guó)民的安居樂(lè)業(yè)和長(zhǎng)治久安，限制入境人口，在外國(guó)游客中間推廣日本文化，平衡經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展的內(nèi)因和外力或許能避免過(guò)猶不及。