The clip shows how otaku has become a tourist attraction for foreign visitors and also features Toy Tokyo, which Kotaku visited back in January and a manga retailer in London, which we didn't. Otaku culture has spread all over the world. Foreign Minister Taro Aso says that today's Japanese otaku are not depressed, dark people, but bright and happy! Yippie.

Kotaku readers, please promise me that when you visit Akihabara, you will not take a "tour" with a hippy holding a flag. Please. Brian Ashcraft

Akiba Tourism [Japan Probe]

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