Japan Airlines Co Chairman Masaru Onishi, saying demand for travel from Japan to Europe has remained slow over the past few months.
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One of the things that has been very sluggish is the flow of Japanese people to Europe because of the threat of terrorism.
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JeffLee
After the Paris attack, I read that Chinese arrivals had dropped off more than 80 percent, with Brussels and UK also suffering steep decline.
Europe is paying a terrible price, given that tourism is the world's most lucrative service industry.
bobsap
Good. Stay in hawaii where they can eat and shop using their mother tongue.
Cliffy
^Just need to read the news about what happened in German on New Year and there would be no surprise.
thepersoniamnow
Even though it's hard to minimalize a person's right to make decisions to protect themselves, I gotta say we Japanese scare quite easy in general and believe the news a little too literally.