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To be fair, that's not a very difficult sentence to read for someone who has studied a moderate amount of Japanese. Doesn't mean you could actually order food.

The link is dead

It's not.

However this is easily "beaten" by using circle to search -> translate on your smart phone.

After "beating" it with a translator, take a hint and don't enter still.

Xenophobia: :(

Xenophobia, Japan: :)

I guess the trick will be less effective to the extent to which people try to work around it. But,

1) most people wouldn’t bother to translate something with a fake translation right above it

2) why do people want to go places they aren’t welcome? It is good to let the locals have some things…

But if you can't read Japanese, you would enter because you don't understand the sign in the first place...

You obviously didn't click through to look at the sign, which says in both Japanese and English 'No vacancy', with the language endorsement in smaller text at the bottom.

Indeed I didn't. Reddit is blocked on my network.