{"id":2829,"date":"2025-07-16T12:59:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T12:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/japan-tourism-growth-slowed-as-quake-rumor-deterred-hong-kongers\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T12:59:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T12:59:25","slug":"japan-tourism-growth-slowed-as-quake-rumor-deterred-hong-kongers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/japan-tourism-growth-slowed-as-quake-rumor-deterred-hong-kongers\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan tourism growth slowed as quake rumor deterred Hong Kongers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Growth in tourism to Japan slowed in June as Hong Kong visitors stayed away after unfounded predictions that a megaquake was about to hit the country.<\/p>\n<p>The number of visitors from Hong Kong slumped by a third from a year earlier to 166,800, data released by the Japan National Tourism Organization showed on Wednesday. Overall arrivals grew by 7.6%, the slowest rate this year.<\/p>\n<p>Fears of an earthquake on or around July 5 originated from a manga graphic novel by Ryo Tatsuki, whom some claim to have foreseen Japan&rsquo;s disastrous 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The story spread wildly on social media in Hong Kong, resulting in the lower visitor count, JNTO said.<\/p>\n<p>Japan is one of the world&rsquo;s most earthquake-prone countries, but scientists say there is no way of predicting the timing of major tremors. The date of the prophecy came and went without incident.<\/p>\n<p>Total foreign visitors to Japan hit 3.4 million in June, the highest ever for the month, with the cheap yen continuing to lure tourists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Japan tourism growth slowed as quake rumor deterred Hong Kongers<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growth in tourism to Japan slowed in June as Hong Kong visitors stayed away after unfounded predictions that a megaquake was about to hit the country. The number of visitors from Hong Kong slumped by a third from a year earlier to 166,800, data released by the Japan National Tourism Organization showed on Wednesday. Overall&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/japan-tourism-growth-slowed-as-quake-rumor-deterred-hong-kongers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Japan tourism growth slowed as quake rumor deterred Hong Kongers&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}