{"id":796854,"date":"2026-10-09T09:18:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T09:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/796854\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T09:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T09:18:20","slug":"japans-tourist-spending-windfall-shrinks-as-chinese-visitors-plunge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/796854\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s tourist spending windfall shrinks as Chinese visitors plunge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/4\/5.jpeg\" alt=\"20261008N Tourists 2\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">The number of foreign visitors to Japan fell 2.7% on the year in the January-August period. (Photo by Toshiki Sasazu)<\/p>\n<p>JO ISHIBUCHI<\/p>\n<p>October 9, 2026 04:17 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japan&#8217;s influx of foreign tourism spending has slowed due to a sharp decline in Chinese visitors, official data released Thursday shows, sapping an important counterbalance to the cost of digital imports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of foreign visitors to Japan fell 2.7% on the year in the January-August period. (Photo by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,23502,1294,47045,214198,67392,4116,32515,56,54,55,57512,152715],"class_list":["post-796854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-chinese","tag-economy","tag-japans","tag-plunge","tag-shrinks","tag-spending","tag-tourist","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-visitors","tag-windfall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796854","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=796854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}