Government Wants 20 Million Foreign Tourists In 2020

[Taro Toporific]

... nightmare_ishly cold...
Heating fuel consumption going throught the roof (4x20l -mom- and 4x18L -me- every week and a half while I don't remember buying toyu more than twice last year... Someday am freezing with combined toyu and ceramic fan heater...playing the dutch oven game with the cats under the covers... The result...

"The result" is...


humane.org/animals/stop-animal-abuse/advocacy/campaigns/stop-gassing-campaign

[Doctor Stop]

Also... I wuz just baking some pain perdu

We call that "Freedom Toast" around here.

[Russell]

[IparryU]

ya... "We just had a fucked nuclear thingamabober go bonkers on us... Many people died from a tsunami, and we are shipping radioactive debris around the nation to be disposed of... dont worry, buy our shit and come visit so we can make money off you."

[matsuki]

ya... "We just had a fucked nuclear thingamabober go bonkers on us... Many people died from a tsunami, and we are shipping radioactive debris around the nation to be disposed of... dont worry, buy our shit and come visit so we can make money off you."

It's no different than advertising BUT if any of those "bloggers" has any decency, they will make the trip and ask for factual evidence that backs up the whole Japan/Japanese exports are safe claims. (and when the facts point to the failures/blunders/evil greed going on there, they will report in on their blogs)

[Taro Toporific]

Via twitter.com/Mulboyne

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.. Remember that misguided Arashi tourism video? The gov't has decided it will seek overseas opinions in the future.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/atmoney/news/2 ... T01235.htm

Japan's netizens have just woken up to the fact that the Tourism Agency used Arashi in their recent promotional videos. Régis Arnaud, the Tokyo correspondent for Figaro, wrote a Tokyo Eye column for Newsweek Japan criticizing the decision to use the boy band. Arnaud has attacked the Tourism Agency before: in 2009, in the same forum, (Japanese) he called one of their websites an embarrassment to Japan. Arnaud's recent piece is not yet on the web but it has gathered attention because a Newsweek Japan editorial blogger discussed his comments and those thoughts are already up (Japanese).

Itai News picked up the piece and commenters appear to be falling over themselves to agree with Arnaud. Many see the use of Arashi as just another example of the unhealthy influence of Dentsu and Johnny's Jimusho, who always seem to get these kind of government contracts. We've made the point before here on FG that this kind of campaign seems more aimed at showing domestic constituencies you are trying to do something rather than reaching out to the supposed target audience. The comments on Itai News say the same.

One contributor even says it looks so saccharine, it seems more like something you'd expect from Thailand or the Philippines. That's a disservice to both countries who are usually more professional with their campaigns. Some go further and say that this kind of campaign isn't even effective in Japan any more. PR agencies like Dentsu continue to rely on the same old tired formulas for local efforts even when the impact is often neglible.

As alternatives, commenters suggest using Japanese with high international profiles, like Ichiro, Ken Watanabe or Beat Takeshi. Others think Japan should introduce its leading chefs or use some top foreign sumo wrestlers. Some question whether any personalities are needed at all, arguing instead that a video with higher production values and a better aesthetic would do much better.

[Coligny]

The long nose slut from WTF48 can do good to...

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[Mike Oxlong]

Why Tourism to Japan is in the Dumps (Idiotic Government Run Campaigns)

It seems to me, from where I sit, that there are three obvious reasons why tourism to Japan is down in the crapper and looks like it's going to stay there for a while. They are (in order of ascending importance):


Number three: Fukushima. Nothing needs to be added here. Whether there is a risk or not, bad publicity is bad publicity.... especially if that bad publicity conjures up images of your kids growing three heads and extra tentacles after visiting Japan


Number two: The extremely strong yen. Yep. Even before anyone had ever heard of Fukushima, the strong yen and high prices were keeping tourists away.


And the number one reason tourism to Japan is down in the crapper and looks like it's going to stay there for a while: Idiots in Japan, who can't speak English, being in charge of the travel campaigns for the idiots in the Japanese government...

cont'd @ Marketing Japan

[Taro Toporific]

cont'd @ Marketing Japan

Following links from that page I found the Japan Tourism Agency's official Live Map of WiFi.

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(I cannot remember if this WiFi "Live Map" was posted before, but hey, beggars-can't-be-choosers.)

[yanpa]

I see my taxpayer yen have been hard at work again...

“Visit Japan with HELLO KITTY”
to discover the Japan you didn't know!

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http://www.visitjapanapp.jp/

[matsuki]

I see my taxpayer yen have been hard at work again...

“Visit Japan with HELLO KITTY”
to discover the Japan you didn't know!

kitty-app.png

http://www.visitjapanapp.jp/

Aren't we supposed to be able to vote against these kinds of bad ideas now? (not that it really matters, for every one of us there are a million cranky ojiichans and obaachans that think Japan is the center of the universe)

[yanpa]

Vote? How?

[matsuki]

Vote? How?

I could have sworn someone said the changes in residency system allowed residents to vote (maybe it was only locally?)

[yanpa]

Nope, never heard that, even for local elections.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I reckon they should go back to advertising Japan as I remember it being advertised as a kid...topless female pearl divers

[matsuki]

I reckon they should go back to advertising Japan as I remember it being advertised as a kid...topless female pearl divers

Where are the pic/vids?

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I reckon they should go back to advertising Japan as I remember it being advertised as a kid...topless female pearl divers

Where are the pic/vids?

You only live twice (YOLT?)

I actually started to look for some...I have a heap of old ama photos in an inaccessible HDD I haven't got the money to fix, but will get around to doing some day.

[Coligny]

I have 27 of these nightmare inducing things:

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And NOPE, I won't tell youze on which one iz me Julie...

[Taro Toporific]

I reckon they should go back to advertising Japan as I remember it being advertised as a kid...topless female pearl divers

When I was here in 1964, my father's driver took us down to Shizuoka, "to see the ama girls." The "official" Ama shows were by then very boring with obsaasan diving in white floppy long-johns (topless ama diving had died out in the early 50s). However with connections, a proper naked ama show was easy to see. Normally, this was a hinky way the younger ama could make some easy spare cash and as a little blond, blue-eyed boy I was the instant star of the show---my dad and I ended up diving with the girls in our skivvies.

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NatGeo


I prefer the traditional posters like Hokusai's Tako to Ama...

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[Samurai_Jerk]

I reckon they should go back to advertising Japan as I remember it being advertised as a kid...topless female pearl divers

When I was here in 1964, my father's driver took us down to Shizuoka, "to see the ama girls." The "official" Ama shows were by then very boring with obsaasan diving in white floppy long-johns (topless ama diving had died out in the early 50s). However with connections, a proper naked ama show was easy to see. Normally, this was a hinky way the younger ama could make some easy spare cash and as a little blond, blue-eyed boy I was the instant star of the show---my dad and I ended up diving with the girls in our skivvies.

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TKY200606280232.jpeg

ama-modern-mermaid.jpeg

NatGeo


I prefer the traditional posters like Hokusai's Tako to Ama...

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That last pic sums up everything that's wrong with the Japanese ass.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

That last pic sums up everything that's wrong with the Japanese ass.

Isn't that the hip?

[Taro Toporific]

UPDATE:

JR East plans free Wi-Fi for tourists
The Japan Times Sep. 6, 2012
East Japan Railway Co. said it will begin a free public Wi-Fi service Oct. 1 so that foreigners visiting Japan can connect to the Internet.
JR East said it decided to set up the free wireless LAN service in response to the many calls to provide an environment for Internet connectivity for foreign visitors...more...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

UPDATE:

JR East plans free Wi-Fi for tourists
The Japan Times Sep. 6, 2012
East Japan Railway Co. said it will begin a free public Wi-Fi service Oct. 1 so that foreigners visiting Japan can connect to the Internet.
JR East said it decided to set up the free wireless LAN service in response to the many calls to provide an environment for Internet connectivity for foreign visitors...more...

I've had enough wifeys and they prove, like the Japanese say, there's nothing more expensive than something that's free.

[IparryU]

UPDATE:

JR East plans free Wi-Fi for tourists
The Japan Times Sep. 6, 2012
East Japan Railway Co. said it will begin a free public Wi-Fi service Oct. 1 so that foreigners visiting Japan can connect to the Internet.
JR East said it decided to set up the free wireless LAN service in response to the many calls to provide an environment for Internet connectivity for foreign visitors...more...

I've had enough wifeys and they prove, like the Japanese say, there's nothing more expensive than something that's free.

[Coligny]

I've had enough wifeys and they prove, like the Japanese say, there's nothing more expensive than something that's free.

Can expand this to cats too...

My latest free baby cat from the parking might be our biggest monthly food expense...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Can expand this to cats too...

My latest free baby cat from the parking might be our biggest monthly food expense...

So there is such a thing as having too much pussy?

[Russell]

Will No. 1 reactor at Fukushima become a future tourist spot?

Paying visits to historic places where death and suffering occurred is known as “dark tourism.” After taking note that in 2011, or 25 years after the accident, the Chernobyl reactor site has become open to general tourism, a group of individuals in Japan, J-Cast News (Aug 1) reports, is attempting to lay the groundwork for plans to make the No. 1 reactor at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant a tourist spot.

The group includes author-critic Hiroki Azuma, tourism scholar Akira Ide, artist Kazuki Umezawa, media activist Daisuke Tsuda, sociologist Hiroshi Akenuma, editor Kenro Hayami and architect Ryuji Fujiwara.

Along with providing a venue to convey their own histories to future generations, the members aim for the activities to be useful in aiding in recovery of the affected areas.

At this stage, the project team is starting preparations, such as considering what facilities should be built and what the displayed items should convey. One blueprint being discussed calls for a “Fukushima Gate Village” with overnight accommodations to be built at a distance of around 20 kilometers from the reactor, after first ascertaining that radiation levels are within the margin of safety. The complex would also incorporate a museum with exhibits related to the 3/11 reactor disaster, research facilities for renewable energy, and others. The village would also serve as the jump-off point for tours to “site zero,” the damaged reactor, where visitors will be able to snap photos and view cleanup operations in progress.

Ideas for the village were drawn up after Azuma, Akenuma and Tsuda made detailed studies of the Chernobyl site, which they jointly published in Volume 4-1 of the scholarly journal “Shisou Chizu Beta.”

One of the potential stumbling blocks for such a project is consideration of the feelings of families of victims who died in the Great East Japan Earthquake, who are no means in agreement about how they want their tragedy to be remembered. For example, the “Miracle Pine” that remained standing in Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture faced little opposition, as residents were in agreement to support its preservation as a symbol of courage and resilience. But in other communities, residents are said to be far from agreement on what to do with such symbols of the tragedy as the disaster management office of Minami-sanriku and the Kadowaki primary school building in Ishinomaki, the respective costs for preservation of which are estimated to exceed 100 million yen.

In the minds of Japanese, say the planners, such places would eventually be viewed as serving both to mourn the dead and to visit a famous historical spot, much the same as Hiroshima and Nagasaki are treated today.

Unfortunately, antenna shops set up in Tokyo to sell local produce from the three prefectures of Tohoku most damaged by the quake are said to be declining in consumer appeal. As memories of the disaster begin to fade, one of the few ways to support these areas will be through promotion of dark tourism.

A footnote: The notion of dark tourism is by no means new. Last April, the BBNews site of wire service AFP introduced “8 dark places to visit.” Yahoo! News and the BBC sites have their own lists. Some of the best known destinations include Paris’s largest cemetery, the Pere Lachaise Cemetery; Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York; World War One battlefields in Ypres, Belgium; Auschwitz-Birkenau, site of the largest extermination camp in World War Two, in Oswiecim, Poland; the Old Melbourne Gaol
 in Melbourne, Australia, where legendary desperado Ned Kelly was hanged; the Titanic Museum
 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, located on the slipways where RMS Titanic was built; and the Hiroshima Peace Museum. At Choeung Ek
in near Phnom Penh, Cambodia, the best known of Cambodia’s “Killing Fields,” the bones and teeth of Khmer Rouge victims still litter the site.

[Coligny]

For Paris,that should be more the catacomb, Paris underground boneyard.

The "Pere Lachaise" is chock full of celebrities tombs. And frankly even quite a romantic place...

Peter Abelard - French philosopher
Edmond François Valentin About - French novelist and journalist
Marie d'Agoult - French author who wrote under the nom de plume of Daniel Stern
Jehan Alain - French composer and organist
Marietta Alboni - Italian opera singer
Jean-Charles Alphand - French civil engineer
Karel Appel - Dutch painter
Guillaume Apollinaire - French poet and art critic
François Arago - French scientist and statesman
Armand-Pierre Arman - French painter
Miguel Ángel Asturias - Guatemalan diplomat and author, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1967
Daniel Auber - French composer
Hubertine Auclert - French feminist and activist for women's suffrage
Pierre Augereau - French military commander and Marshal of France
Jean-Pierre Aumont - French actor, father of Tina Aumont and husband of Maria Montez
Jane Avril - French dancer

[edit] B

Salvador Bacarisse - Spanish composer
Honoré de Balzac - French novelist of the 19th century
Henri Barbusse - French novelist
Paul Barras - French statesman
Antoine-Louis Barye - French sculptor
Jean-Dominique Bauby - French journalist
Jean-Louis Baudelocque - French obstetrician
Gilbert Becaud - French singer
Pierre Augustin Beclard - French anatomist
Vincenzo Bellini - Italian composer; remains later transferred to Italy
Judah P. Benjamin - American lawyer
Pierre-Jean de Beranger - French lyricist
Claude Bernard - French physiologist, known for several advances in medicine, as the introduction of the scientific method to the study of medicine, and the study of the sympathetic nervous system.
Bernardin de Saint Pierre - French writer
Sarah Bernhardt - French stage and film actress
Alphonse Bertillon - French anthropologist and father of anthropometry
Ramon Emeterio Betances - Puerto Rican nationalist
Marie François Xavier Bichat - French anatomist and physiologist
Fulgence Bienvenue - French civil engineer remembered as the Father of the Paris Metro
Samuel Bing - German art dealer
Georges Bizet - French composer and conductor
Louis Blanc - French historian and statesman
Sophie Blanchard - first professional female balloonist and the first woman to die in an aviation accident
Auguste Blanqui - French statesman
Rosa Bonheur - French painter
Ludwig Borne - German political writer and satirist
Pierre Bourdieu - French sociologist
Alexandrine-Caroline Branchu - French opera singer
Edouard Branly - French scientist
Pierre Brasseur - French comedian
Alexandre-Theodore Brongniart - French architect, best known for designing the layout of the Pere Lachaise Cemetery itself
Pierre Brossolette - French journalist, politician and Résistance leader
Jean de Brunhoff - French author of Babar the Elephant

[edit] C

Joseph Caillaux - French statesman
Gustave Caillebotte - French Impressionist painter
Maria Callas - The opera singer's ashes were originally buried in the cemetery. After being stolen and later recovered, they were scattered into the Aegean Sea, off the coast of Greece. The empty urn remains in Père Lachaise.
Jean-Jacques-Regis de Cambaceres - French lawyer and politician
Giulia Grisi de Candia - Italian opera singer, well known as "Giulia Grisi", her grave is marked Giullia de Candia.
Jean-Joseph Carriès - French sculptor, ceramist, and miniaturist
Pierre Cartellier - French sculptor
Virginia Oldoini, Countess di Castiglione - Italian courtesan and secret agent
Jean-François Champollion - French decipherer of the hieroglyphs and father of Egyptology
Claude Chappe - French pioneer of the telegraph
Ernest Chausson - French composer
Richard Chenevix - Irish chemist
Luigi Cherubini - Italian composer
Frédéric Chopin - Polish composer. His heart is entombed within a pillar at the Holy Cross Church in Warsaw, Poland.
Jean-Baptiste Clément - French painter and activist
Auguste Clésinger - French painter and sculptor
Emile Cohl - French cartoonist
Colette - French litterateur
Count Alexandre Joseph Colonna-Walewski - French statesman, son of Napoleon I
Auguste Comte - French thinker; father of Positivism
Benjamin Constant - Swiss-born liberal philosopher
Bruno Coquatrix - French lyricist and music impresario
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot - French painter
Jean-Pierre Cortot - French sculptor
Benoît Costaz - French bishop
Georges Courteline - French playwright
Thomas Couture - French painter
Nancy Cunard - English poet and activist
Henri Curiel - Egyptian politician

[edit] D

Jarosław Dąbrowski - exiled Polish revolutionary Nationalist and last Commander-in-Chief of the Paris Commune of 1871
Pierre Dac - French humorist
Édouard Daladier - French Radical-Socialist politician of the 1930s, signatory of the Munich Agreement in 1938 and Prime Minister of France at the outbreak of the Second World War
Alexandre Darracq - French automobile manufacturer
Alphonse Daudet - Famous French author who is known for his literary works, such as, "Lettres de mon Moulin".
Honore Daumier - French caricaturist
Jacques-Louis David - Napoleon's court painter was exiled as a revolutionary after the Bourbons returned to the throne of France. His body was not allowed into the country even in death, so the tomb contains only his heart.
David d'Angers - French sculptor
Louis Nicolas Davout - Napoleon's "Iron Marshal"
Gerard Debreu - French economist, won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1983
Jean-Gaspard Deburau - Czech-born French actor and mime
Cino Del Duca - Italian-born French publishing magnate, film producer and philanthropist
Simone Del Duca - French businesswoman and philanthropist, wife of Cino Del Duca
Eugène Delacroix - French Romantic artist
Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre - French mathematician
Vivant Denon - French archaeologist
Pierre Desproges - French humorist
Gustave Doré - French artist and engraver
Michel Drach - French film director
Marie Dubas - French singer
Jacques Duclos - French politician
Paul Dukas - French composer
Isadora Duncan - American dancer
Henri Duparc - French composer
Eleonore Duplay - Friend of French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre
Guillaume Dupuytren - French surgeon

[edit] E

Paul Éluard - French surrealist poet
George Enescu - Romanian composer, pianist, violinist and conductor
Camille Erlanger - French composer
Max Ernst - German artist

[edit] F

Alexandre Falguiere - French sculptor
Felix Faure - former President of France
Robert de Flers - French playwright and journalist
Suzanne Flon - actress
Jean de la Fontaine - French litterateur best known for fairy tales
Joseph Fourier - French mathematician and physicist
Jean Francaix - French composer
Pierre Frank - French Trotskyist politician
William Temple Franklin - grandson of Benjamin Franklin
Loie Fuller - French dancer

[edit] G

Antonio de la Gandara - French painter
Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pages - French statesman
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac - French chemist and physicist
Pierre Georges - French Resistance leader better known as Colonel Fabien
Théodore Gericault - French Romantic painter, whose major work The Raft of the Medusa is reproduced on his tomb by sculptor Antoine Étex.
Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou - leader of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan
Andre Gill - French caricaturist
Manuel de Godoy - Spanish prime minister and court favorite
Yvan Goll - French-German poet
Laurent de Gouvion-Saint-Cyr - French military commander and Marshal of France
Zenobe Gramme - Inventor of the Direct Current (DC) Dynamo. There is a statue on the grave of Zenobe sitting and looking at a dynamo rotor.
Stéphane Grappelli - French jazz violinist and member of the Quintette du Hot Club de France
Andre Gretry - Belgian-born French composer
Maurice Grimaud - French Prefecture of Police during May 1968[2]
Giulia Grisi - Italian opera singer (May 22, 1811-November 29, 1869), her grave is marked under her married name Giullia de Candia.
Félix Guattari - French militant, institutional psychotherapist and philosopher
Jules Guesde - French statesman
Yvette Guilbert - French singer
Yılmaz Güney - Kurdish Turkish actor and film director
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin - proposed the guillotine as the official method of execution in France.

[edit] H

Samuel Hahnemann - German physician, formal founder of homeopathy.
Georges Haussmann - French civil engineer and town planner
Jeanne Hébuterne - French artist and common-law wife of the artist Amedeo Modigliani.
Sadegh Hedayat - Iran's foremost modern writer of prose fiction and short stories.
Heloise - French abbess and scholar, best known for her love affair with Peter Abelard
Ticky Holgado - French actor
Jean-Nicolas Huyot - French architect best known for his work on the Arc de Triomphe

[edit] I

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - French painter
Jean-Baptiste Isabey - French painter

[edit] J

Claude Jade - French actress
Leon Jouhaux - French trade union leader, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1951

[edit] K

Allan Kardec - Born Hippolyte Leon Denizard Rivail, he was the founder of Spiritism.
Ahmet Kaya - Kurdish (from Turkey) singer and songwriter
François Christophe de Kellermann - French military commander and Marshal of France
Thomas Read Kemp - English property developer and statesman
Henri Krasucki - French trade unionist
Rodolphe Kreutzer - French violinist and composer

[edit] L

Jerome Lalande - French astronomer and writer
René Lalique - French glass designer
Theophanis Lamboukas - French actor and singer, husband of Edith Piaf
Dominique Jean Larrey - French military surgeon
Clarence John Laughlin - American Surrealist photographer from New Orleans, Louisiana. His most famous published work was "Ghosts Along the Mississippi".
Marie Laurencin - French painter
Charles-François Lebrun - French statesman
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin - French politician
Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély - French organist and composer
François Joseph Lefebvre - French military commander and Marshal of France
Ferdinand de Lesseps - French architect, designed the Suez Canal
Pierre Levegh - French racing driver killed in the 1955 Le Mans disaster.
Jean-Francois Lyotard - French philosopher

[edit] M

Jacques MacDonald - French military commander and Marshal of France
William Madocks - English landowner and statesman
Milosz Magin - Polish composer
Nestor Makhno - Ukrainian revolutionary
Jacques-Antoine Manuel - French lawyer and statesman
Auguste Maquet - French author
Marcel Marceau- French Mime Artist
Angelo Mariani - French chemist
Celestine Marie - French opera singer
André Masséna - French military commander and Marshal of France
Georges Méliès- French filmmaker; produced A Trip to the Moon
Emile-Justin Menier - French chocolatier
Henri Menier - French chocolatier
Antoine Brutus Menier - French chocolatier
Maurice Merleau-Ponty- French philosopher
Cleo de Merode - French dancer
Stuart Merrill - American symbolist poet
Charles Messier - French astronomer, publisher of Messier's catalogue
Jules Michelet - French historian
Amedeo Modigliani - Italian painter and sculptor. Famous for his intense rivalry with Pablo Picasso.
Molière - French playwright
Gustave de Molinari - Belgian-born economist associated with French laissez-faire liberal economists.
Silvia Monfort - French comedienne
Gaspard Monge - French mathematician; remains later moved to the Panthéon
Yves Montand - film actor
Jim Morrison - American singer and songwriter with The Doors, author, and poet. Permanent crowds and occasional vandalism surrounding this tomb have caused tensions with the families of other, less famous, interred individuals.[3] Many other parts of the cemetery have been defaced with arrows purporting to indicate the direction toward "Jim", though even these defacements have in many cases been defaced themselves, resulting in arrows that point in two directions.[citation needed]
Jean Moulin - leader of the French Resistance during World War II who went missing after his arrest with several other Resistants at Caluire, Lyon in June 1943. Understood to have died on a train not far from Metz station in July that year, ashes 'presumed' to be his were interred at Pere Lachaise after the war and then transferred to the Panthéon in December 1964.
Marcel Mouloudji - French singer
Joachim Murat - French Napoleonic general and Marshal of France.
Alfred de Musset - French poet, novelist, dramatist; love affair with George Sand is told from his point of view in his autobiographical novel, La Confession d'un Enfant du Siècle
Nestor Machno - Ukrainian anarchist and revolutionary leader

[edit] N

Felix Nadar - a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist
Gérard de Nerval - French poet
Michel Ney - Marshal of France who fought in the French Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars
Anna de Noailles - French poetess
Charles Nodier - French writer
Victor Noir - journalist killed by Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte in a dispute over a duel with Paschal Grousset. The tomb, designed by Jules Dalou is notable for the realistic portrayal of the dead Noir, and for the fact that he appears to be at least partially sexually aroused, his large penis pushing his part-unbuttoned fly open. In consequence, the sculpture has become a fertility symbol. His lips are kissed, the genital area is rubbed and flowers are left in his hat. In 2005 a fence was erected around his tomb to prevent people rubbing the said area, as this was damaging the sculpture, but it has subsequently been removed.
Cyprian Norwid - Polish poet

[edit] O

Pascale Ogier - French actress
Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione - famous Italian courtesan
Max Ophuls - German film director
Andranik Toros Ozanian - Armenian military commander and statesman

[edit] P

Antoine Parmentier - French agronomist known for enunciating the dietary value of potatoes
Alexandre Ferdinand Parseval-Deschenes - French admiral
François-Auguste Parseval-Grandmaison - French poet, uncle of the above
Christine Pascal - French actress
Adelina Patti - Spanish-born opera singer
Robert Herbert, 12th Earl of Pembroke - English aristocrat
Casimir Perier - French statesman
Michel Petrucciani - French Jazz pianist
Édith Piaf - French singer
Christian Pineau - French statesman
Roland Piquepaille - French technology writer
Camille Pissarro - French Impressionist painter
Ignace Pleyel - pianist
Elvira Popescu - Romanian-born actress
Francis Poulenc - French composer
Antoine-Augustin Préault - French sculptor
Marcel Proust - French novelist, essayist and critic
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon - French painter

[edit] R

Mademoiselle Rachel - French actress
François-Vincent Raspail - French scientist and statesman; remains later moved to the Panthéon
Henri de Regnier - French poet
Norbert Rillieux - American engineer, invented the multiple-effect evaporator
Étienne-Gaspard Robert - Belgian magician who performed under the stage name of Robertson
Jacob Roblès - Famous grave for the medallion Silence by Auguste Préault
Georges Rodenbach - Belgian poet
Jules Romains - French writer
Gioachino Rossini - Italian composer. In 1887, Rossini's remains were moved back to Florence, but the crypt that once housed them (now dedicated to his memory) still stands in Perè Lachaise.
Edmond James de Rothschild - Baron of the Rothschild family
Salomon James de Rothschild - son of James de Rothschild
Raymond Roussel - writer

[edit] S

Gholam Hossein Saedi; Iranian socialist novelist and playwright
Countess Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry - Salvadoran writer, wife of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire - French naturalist
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon - French sociologist who founded the "Saint-Simonian" movement
Henri Salvador - French singer
Yuliya Samoylova - Russian aristocrat
Jean-Baptiste Say; French economist
Victor Schoelcher - French statesman known for the abolition of slavery
Georges-Pierre Seurat - French painter of Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, and father of neoimpressionism
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès - French clergyman, philosopher and statesman
Simone Signoret - Academy-award winning French actress.
William Sidney Smith - British admiral of whom Napoleon Bonaparte said, "That man made me miss my destiny".
Paul Signac - French painter
Serge Alexandre Stavisky - French financier
Gertrude Stein - American author
Elisabeta Alexandrovna Stroganova - Francophile Russian aristocrat
Louis Gabriel Suchet - French military commander and Marshal of France

[edit] T

Eugenia Tadolini - Italian opera singer
François Joseph Talma - French actor
Pierre Alexandre Tardieu - French engraver
Gerda Taro - German war photographer and the great love of Robert Capa, also one of the iconographers of the Spanish Civil War. The monument is by Alberto Giacometti.
Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata - Indian aviation pioneer and industrialist
Thomas Tellefsen - Norwegian pianist and composer
Ruben Ter Minasian - Armenian politician and a revolutionary, member of Armenian Revolutionary Federation ARF Tashnag
Adolphe Thiers - French historian and statesman
Maurice Thorez - French Communist politician
Isaac Titsingh - Dutch surgeon, scholar, VOC trader, ambassador to Qing China and Tokugawa Japan
Alice B. Toklas - American author, partner of Gertrude Stein, Toklas's name and information is etched on the other side of Stein's gravestone in the same sparse style and font. As they were inseparable in life, so too are they in death.
Marie Trintignant - French actress
Maurice Tourneur - French film director
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo - former dictator of the Dominican Republic
Ramfis Trujillo - statesman of the Dominican Republic, son of Gen. Trujillo

[edit] V

Paul Vaillant-Couturier - French political journalist
Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes - French painter
Jules Valles - French writer
Louis Verneuil - French playwright
Claude Victor-Perrin - French military commander and Marshal of France
Louis Visconti - French architect best known for designing the modern Louvre and Napoleon's tomb at Les Invalides
Dominique Vivant, Baron de Denon - French artist, writer, diplomat and archaeologist. Located close to Frederick Chopin's grave.

[edit] W

Marie, Countess Walewski - Napoleon's mistress, credited for pers­ing Napoleon to take important pro-Polish decisions during the Napoleonic Wars. Only her heart is entombed here; her other remains were returned to her native Poland.
Sir Richard Wallace - English art collector and philanthropist
Eduard Wiiralt - Estonian artist
Oscar Wilde - Irish novelist, poet and playwright. By tradition, Wilde's admirers kiss the art-deco monument while wearing lipstick.
Jeanette Wohl - French literary editor, longtime friend and correspondent of Ludwig Börne
Richard Wright - African-American author, wrote Native Son and other American classics

[edit] Z

Achille Zavatta - French comedian
Felix Ziem - French painter

It's not a cemetry, it's a who's who of the most important people of this planet...

I worked with Bourdieu :˜( Seriously never though he was going to be of the first I knew from this job to vanish

For the French most worthy -civilian- people, go to the Pantheon necropolis :

1791 Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau First person honored with burial in the Panthéon, 4 April 1791. Disinterred on 25 November 1794.
1791 Voltaire
1792 Nicolas-Joseph Beaurepaire
1793 Louis Michel le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau Assassinated deputy, disinterred from the Panthéon. His body was removed by his family on 14 February 1795.
1793 Augustin-Marie Picot
1794 Jean-Paul Marat
1794 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1806 François Denis Tronchet
1806 Claude Louis Petiet
1807 Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis
1807 Louis-Pierre-Pantaléon Resnier
1807 Louis-Joseph-Charles-Amable d'Albert, duc de Luynes
1807 Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Bévière
1808 Francois Barthélemy, comte Béguinot
1808 Pierre Jean George Cabanis
1808 Gabriel-Louis, marquis de Caulaincourt
1808 Jean-Frédéric, comte de Perregaux
1808 Antoine-César de Choiseul, duc de Praslin
1808 Jean-Pierre-Firmin, comte Malher Urn with his heart
1809 Jean Baptiste Papin, comte de Saint-Christau
1809 Joseph-Marie Vien
1809 Pierre Garnier, comte de Laboissière
1809 Jean Pierre, comte Sers Urn with his heart
1809 Jérôme-Louis-François-Joseph, comte de Durazzo Urn with his heart
1809 Justin Bonaventure Morard de Galles Urn with his heart
1809 Emmanuel Crétet, comte de Champnol
1810 Giovanni Battista Caprara
1810 Louis-Vincent-Joseph Le Blond de Saint-Hilaire
1810 Jean Baptiste Treilhard
1810 Jean Lannes, duc de Montebello
1810 Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu
1811 Louis Antoine de Bougainville
1811 Charles, cardinal Erskine of Kellie
1811 Alexandre-Antoine Hureau, baron de Sénarmont Urn with his heart
1811 Ippolito Antonio, cardinal Vicenti Mareri
1811 Nicolas-Marie Songis des Courbons
1811 Michel Ordener, First Count Ordener[7]
1812 Jean-Marie Dorsenne
1812 Jan Willem de Winter or in French Jean Guillaume De Winter, comte de Huessen Body only; his heart is buried in his birthplace Kampen (Netherlands)
1813 Hyacinthe-Hugues-Timoléon de Cossé, comte de Brissac
1813 Jean-Ignace Jacqueminot, comte de Ham
1813 Joseph Louis Lagrange
1813 Jean, comte Rousseau
1813 François-Marie-Joseph-Justin, comte de Viry
1814 Jean-Nicolas Démeunier
1814 Jean Reynier
1814 Claude-Ambroise Régnier, duc de Massa di Carrara
1815 Antoine-Jean-Marie Thévenard
1815 ClauClaude Juste Alexandre Legrand
1829 Jacques-Germain Soufflot
1885 Victor Hugo Tombeau de Victor Hugo au Panthéon, Paris, France.jpg
1889 Lazare Carnot Buried at the time of the centennial celebration of the French Revolution.
1889 Théophile-Malo Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne Buried at the time of the centennial celebration of the French Revolution.
1889 François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers Buried at the time of the centennial celebration of the French Revolution – Only his ashes are buried there.
1894 Marie François Sadi Carnot Buried immediately after his assassination.
1907 Marcellin Berthelot Buried with his wife Mme Sophie Berthelot, the first woman to be interred.
1908 Émile Zola
1920 Léon Gambetta Urn with his heart
1924 Jean Jaurès Interred ten years after his assassination.
1933 Paul Painlevé
1948 Paul Langevin
1948 Jean Perrin Buried the same day as Paul Langevin.
1949 Victor Schoelcher His father Marc, is also in the Panthéon. Victor wanted to be buried with his father.
1949 Félix Éboué Buried the same day as Victor Schoelcher.
1952 Louis Braille Body moved to the Panthéon on the centenary of his death.
1964 Jean Moulin Ashes transferred from Père Lachaise Cemetery on December 19, 1964.
1987 René Cassin Entered the Pantheon on the centenary of his birth.
1988 Jean Monnet Entered the Pantheon on the centenary of his birth.
1989 Abbé Baptiste-Henri Grégoire Buried at the time of the bicentennial celebration of the French Revolution.
1989 Gaspard Monge Buried at the time of the bicentennial celebration of the French Revolution.
1989 Marquis de Condorcet Buried at the time of the bicentennial celebration of the French Revolution. The coffin is in fact empty, his remains having been lost.
1995 Pierre Curie Both Pierre and Marie were enshrined in the crypt in April 1995.
1995 Marie Curie Second woman to be buried in the Panthéon, but the first honored for her own merits, her contributions to science. (who totally didn't die of not dangerous at all radiation exposure, just ask our local dunces aboot the innocuity of ionizing radiation.)
1996 André Malraux Ashes transferred from Verrières-le-Buisson (Essonne) Cemetery on 23 November 1996 on the twentieth anniversary of his death.
1998 Toussaint Louverture Commemorative plaque installed on same day as Louis Delgrès
1998 Louis Delgrès Commemorative plaque installed on same day as Toussaint Louverture
2002 Alexandre Dumas, père Reburied here 132 years after his death.
2011 Aimé Césaire Commemorative plaque installed 6 April 2011; Césaire is buried in Martinique.[8]

For the military, check with "Les Invalides": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Invali ... and_vaults

[Coligny]

(I think that in 2 cemetry I already gave more reason to anyone to go to Paris than anywhere near Japan or its nukular dumpster....

[Russell]

Well, I always thought there should be a reason France receives the most tourists in the world; now I know.

And they don't even have a nuclear wreck to attract more tourists...