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It couldn't possibly related to a global decline in tourism, could it? No, obviously it's this obscure manga 1999 that's responsible.
I live in Taiwan, so I'm pretty close to Japan. Plane ticket prices to Japan are dropping, and there are rumors also of people leaving (temporarily?) from Japan for this occasion. So yeah, some people take it seriously 😅
It's a great time to visit Japan. The yen is really down, so the exchange rate is great.
And I hear tourism is going down, so it might be less crowded.
I mean it's probably not the only reason, but like this is actually a thing. Flights are being canceled over this.
There’s a global decline in tourism?
To the USA, definitely. I would also expect problems with Russian international tourism as well.
I don't know why Japan would be having issues, though.
It could be that they tend to be hostile towards foreigners.
Tbf they probably have good reason.
Not really, no. Japan is just traditionally pretty xenophobic.