Japanese hospitality wears thin as overtourism takes toll

> As he had many times before, he showed his four elderly clients how to offer prayers at the shrine, a ritual of bowing, clapping and ringing a bell attached to a thick rope.

I dislike how the article frames this behavior as innocent and acceptable because Sherlock had been able to do this several times before.

The rituals at the shrines and temples are sacred to those in attendance, and Sherlock surely knows this. Appropriating those rituals out of ignorance and fashion, in front of those in attendance, is indeed disrespectful.