{"id":75221,"date":"2025-11-18T15:42:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T06:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/18\/chinese-travellers-estimated-to-have-cancelled-500000-flights-to-japan-amid-rising-tensions"},"modified":"2025-11-18T17:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T08:52:07","slug":"chinese-travellers-estimated-to-have-cancelled-500000-flights-to-japan-amid-rising-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75221","title":{"rendered":"Chinese travellers cancel hundreds of thousands of trips to Japan amid rising tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese airlines offer free cancellations and film releases postponed after Japanese PM\u2019s comments on Taiwan<\/p>\n<p>Chinese travellers are estimated to have cancelled hundreds of thousands of tickets to fly to Japan amid reports of suspended visa processing and cultural exchanges as a diplomatic dispute over Japan\u2019s stance on Taiwan continues.<\/p>\n<p>Under pressure from business groups, Japan has sent a senior diplomat to Beijing in an attempt to calm tensions after Japan\u2019s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, said her country <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/11\/japan-china-row-takaichi-taiwan-conflict-military-deployment\">could get involved militarily<\/a> if China attempted to invade Taiwan. Her comments <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/17\/china-and-japan-are-in-a-war-of-words-over-taiwan-what-happens-next\">prompted fury<\/a> from China\u2019s government, which issued warnings against Chinese travellers and students going to Japan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/18\/chinese-travellers-estimated-to-have-cancelled-500000-flights-to-japan-amid-rising-tensions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese airlines offer free cancellations and film releases postponed after Japanese PM\u2019s comments on TaiwanChinese travellers are estimated to have cancelled hundreds of thousands of tickets to fly to Japan amid reports of suspended visa processing an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3523,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,88,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-japan","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75231,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75221\/revisions\/75231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}