Dwindling of South Korean visitors takes toll on Japan businesses

Stay strong Japan.

This is what I understand from my weekly visits to Korea. Many Koreans I know seem to believe Japan isn't safe for them and most of the Japanese I know seem to believe Korea isn't safe for them. The small extremist on both sides seem to be receiving the largest amount of attention.

Dont worry Japan. Abe mentioned that other Asian nations like China will fill the massive shortfall and ensure business as usual. Oh, but..... it’s up to the businesses to attract them.

Pathetic, short sighted inept leadership ruining the once mighty Japan inc.

Cue the goal post moving in 3..2..1

Stay strong Japan

Shadenfreude is a treat.

'Signature' peanut butter sandwich, of which only 15 per day are available? The cost absolutely flabbergasts me. But, that's Japan for you.

Its good , I believe that people should understand that wounds of Koreans are deep and japan and japanese people has done almost nothing to heal them .

if you look at the older news related to this here , people who are ignorant of history were posting messages displaying there stupidity .

History books in Japan has no mention of the atrocities and repressions by Japan on other Asian countries .

Acknowledgement is the first step in the path of realization and correction of past deeds .

Lets drag this out. Going to South Korea for the second time in a Month on a 4 day wkd for about 10k round trip. Way better than boring Nagoya.

Many Koreans I know seem to believe Japan isn't safe for them and most of the Japanese I know seem to believe Korea isn't safe for them

I dare say Japan is safer than Korea.

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I doubt it's having that degree of effect on J business.

Likely the converse is closer to true - there are decreasing numbers of J tourists hitting S Korea.

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South Korea is one of three countries in the world on paper that saves more than it spends Russia and Germany are the other two. Moon Jae-In does not want any tourism money going to Japan from Korea. Better North Korea than Japan in his book. He does not seem to like Japan and has encouraged this sentiment.

To see the effects for yourself go to expedia or any similar site and see what unbelievably cheap hotel deals you can get in Tokyo, Kyoto, Sapporo etc. Fine for me as I travel a lot but obviously a financial disaster for a huge number of businesses.

Lots of Japan supporting posters were cheering the drop in Korean tourists in Japan, saying it would lead to less overcrowding etc.

However if you're a business owner seeing significant drops in business you'd be slightly less cheerful.

Despite the guises, what Japan did to SK was in retaliation to the recent SK court decision, and it's backfired big time. Nice one Shinzo-kun.

"Although South Korean visitors make up 20 to 40 percent of customers, drawn to the store's signature peanut butter sandwich, limited to 15 servings a day, it has largely been business as usual."

There hasn't really been any change at all," a staff member said.

Enough said. It is business as usual.

this just really shows you how totally and utterly brainwashed koreans are. it's like they are robots controlled by the gov't. whenever there are hard economic times, the SK gov't will always whip of nationalistic fervor to distract from the real problems facing SK.

I am sure fewer Japanese are visiting Korea.

There hasn't really been any change at all," a staff member said.

Enough said. It is business as usual.

@always - that's what you took from the article? What about the rest of the article?

this just really shows you how totally and utterly brainwashed koreans are. it's like they are robots controlled by the gov't. whenever there are hard economic times, the SK gov't will always whip of nationalistic fervor to distract from the real problems facing SK.

@nakano - except the boycott was self initiated by the people of SK.

3 years ago the people of SK overthrew a government with months of protest.. how does that fit in with your theory about being controlled by the government?

Start a meaningless fight and this is , What happen ???. Normal people and business suffers.

@zichi

Please check August figures and report back.

The weak Yen has boosted Japanese tourism industry. I am curious how further Abe administration can maintain the weak Yen. I guess the Japan Inc. is on the brink of bankruptcy.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/02/20/japan-foreign-tourism-boom/80569424/

Nakano, You could literally replace Korean with Japanese word for word and it'd be exactly the same. Except maybe the Japanese wouldn't protest because, meh, shogenai, there's some Pokemon Go to be played.

I was in Tokyo a few weeks ago and the crowds looked exactly the same to me.

There will always be tourism between Japan and Korea short of a major conflict.

I’ll be flying there (Korea) next week and enjoying the yakiniku.