Scaring the tourists as a strategy?

If Germany Der Spiegel article is to be read at face value, authorities may be concerned about the potential negative effect of biometrics filtering on international tourism in Japan. If the authorities are keen enough to be concerned with mood of entrants, they will start checking that mood using surveys. And if the itch is on tourism, then lambasting Yokoso Japan! is the tactic of the day, and scaring tourists the strategy. I read somewhere the other day that Japan tourist authorities have been trying very hard to lure foreign sports team take a break in Hokkaido on their way to the China Olympics and that some UK team signed in. Unfortunately, I could not track back the news. As reported in several instances in the comment over there at the petition site, even the UK do not separate mixed families on arrival who can queue with the locals. If anyone has a reference to that UK-Japan-sport encounter, please feed me back.