{"id":269043,"date":"2025-11-18T04:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T04:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/269043\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T04:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T04:30:08","slug":"japan-movie-releases-postponed-in-china-after-taiwan-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/269043\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan movie releases postponed in China after Taiwan row"},"content":{"rendered":"

The state-controlled media outlet said Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle has faced “strong dissatisfaction among Chinese audiences” in the wake Takaichi’s remarks.<\/p>\n

The BBC has contacted the films’ distributors, including Japanese media giant Toho.<\/p>\n

Takaichi said in the Japanese parliament on 7 November: “If there are battleships and the use of force, no matter how you think about it, it could constitute a survival-threatening situation.”<\/p>\n

Beijing has since urged its citizens to avoid travel to Japan and told students to reconsider studying there, citing safety risks.<\/p>\n

Japanese tourism, airline and retail stocks fell sharply<\/a> as investors weighed the impact of the China’s response.<\/p>\n

China is a key source of tourists travelling to Japan, with almost 7.5m visitors in the first nine months of this year.<\/p>\n

Beijing sees Taiwan as a breakaway province<\/a> that will, in time, be part of the country. China has not ruled out the use of force to achieve this goal.<\/p>\n

But many Taiwanese consider themselves to be part of a separate nation – although most are in support of keeping the status quo in which Taiwan neither declares independence from China nor unites with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The state-controlled media outlet said Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle has faced “strong dissatisfaction among Chinese audiences” in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-269043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}