's hawkish tabloid, bristled at the media in Japan on Tuesday after reports there highlighted the influx of Chinese visitors despite weeks of warnings from Beijing about the risk of consuming Japanese seafood.
Voting with their feet, Chinese travelers put the state-run newspaper in an awkward position over its previous prediction that Japan's tourism figures would plummet following theBeijing issued an outright ban on Japanese aquatic products in response to Tokyo's decision on August 24, although Chinese fishing boatsLast week, Ichiro Takahashi, head of the Japan Tourism Agency, said its inquires at travel agencies in China showed the impact on tourism to Japan"has been limited,"...
However, overseas destinations can remain a touchy subject when China's state media argue the government's political sentiments are shared by the wider public. TheJapan says its decision was based on science and backed by ongoing assessments by the International Atomic Energy Agency, which said radionuclides detected in the water were not sufficient to pose a health risk. China says its concerns are also fact-based but has yet to publish technical data from its own testing.