...isn't the entire reason for hosting the world cup to improve the world's view of Japan as a nation and as a people, and also make a couple of bucks on the side?
Instead, we get the tried-and-true "fuck off, all ye who enter here", bars are closing their doors to fans, local governments keeping their own constituents from providing adequate lodging... basically a huge fuckup all around.
Oh well... at least Japan doesn't have the dog-eating dillemna that South Korea faces with horse-eating frenchmen...
Kujira-sandwich, anyone?