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    Against the grain: anger grows at spike in 'sand graffiti' by tourists in Japan

    Tottori prefecture to install more foreign-language signs urging visitors not to vandalise dunes
    by Justin McCurry in Tokyo May 21, 2019 1 minute
    More than 3,300 incidents of ‘sand graffiti’ have occurred in the Japanese tourist hotspot in the last decade. Photograph: Alamy

    Local authorities in Japan have drawn a line in the sand amid anger over a rise in graffiti by foreign tourists disfiguring its pristine coastal dunes.

    Tottori, a prefecture (county) on the Japan Sea coast, banned the defacement of its sand

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