{"id":76021,"date":"2026-01-20T13:58:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T04:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/20\/chinese-japan-tourist-numbers-halve-wake-taiwan-invasion-row"},"modified":"2026-01-20T13:58:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T04:58:22","slug":"chinese-tourists-shun-japan-in-wake-of-taiwan-invasion-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76021","title":{"rendered":"Chinese tourists shun Japan in wake of Taiwan invasion row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Number of high-spending Chinese tourists visiting Japan halved last month after PM said an invasion of Taiwan could spark Japanese military involvement<\/p>\n<p>Chinese tourism to Japan almost halved in December amid a bitter diplomatic row between Beijing and Tokyo over the security of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/taiwan\">Taiwan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The number of tourists from mainland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a> dropped by about 45% from the same month a year earlier to about 330,000, Japan\u2019s transport ministry said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/20\/chinese-japan-tourist-numbers-halve-wake-taiwan-invasion-row\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Number of high-spending Chinese tourists visiting Japan halved last month after PM said an invasion of Taiwan could spark Japanese military involvementChinese tourism to Japan almost halved in December amid a bitter diplomatic row between Beijing and T&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76021","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76022,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76021\/revisions\/76022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}