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May 26, 2021
It used to be a common sight in major Japanese cities, especially during the Lunar New Year holidays: hordes of Chinese tourists arriving on buses and cruise ships and going on shopping sprees for duty-free, made in Japan goods. There’s even a term for that particular consumer behavior: bakugai, or explosive buying.
International travel, however, has come to a standstill amid tougher border controls caused by the pandemic, dealing a heavy blow to corporations that have relied on the purchasing power of inbound visitors from the world’s second-largest economy. In 2019, foreign visitors of which nearly a third were Chinese spent ¥4.8 trillion in Japan. Last year, spending plunged 85% to an estimated ¥745 billion.
Jan 10, 2021
This time last year, the world started to become aware of a new virus spreading in one region of China, which was already taking steps to contain it. One of the first widely publicized iterations of measures to guard against the virus in the entertainment world was probably the late January cancellation of Cantopop star Andy Lau’s 12-show run of concerts in Hong Kong in February.
“Sorry about this,” Lau wrote on his website. “I wish that everyone will remain healthy, and that we get through this difficulty together.”
Other concerts in the region were promptly canceled as the burgeoning epidemic interfered with logistics: Freight and travel restrictions enacted in China made it impossible for tours to fulfill their production requirements. Two of Hong Kong’s biggest tourist attractions, Hong Kong Disneyland and Ocean Park, closed, even though the number of infections in the territory was still modest. The virus was already having a significant effe