{"id":717971,"date":"2026-01-24T17:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T17:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/717971\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T17:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T17:04:12","slug":"fewer-chinese-tourists-cause-weaker-outlook-for-japanese-retailers-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/717971\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer Chinese tourists cause weaker outlook for Japanese retailers in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/travel-leisure\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Travel &amp; Leisure<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Department store tax-free sales fell in December as China arrivals dropped 45%<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ft.com\/v3\/image\/raw\/https%3A%2F%2Fcms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com%2Fimages%2F5%2F9%2F5%2F9%2F12049595-1-eng-GB%2Fd4802371d328-photo_SXM2025012400014103.jpg?width=780&amp;fit=cover&amp;gravity=faces&amp;dpr=2&amp;quality=medium&amp;source=nar-cms&amp;format=auto\" alt=\"20260123 Department\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Japan&#8217;s\u00a0department stores have been top destinations for Chinese tourists looking for luxury items. (File photo by Katsuyuki Tanimoto)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>YURIKA YONEDA<\/p>\n<p>January 24, 2026 18:30 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; A decline in duty-free sales at department stores, linked to a sharp drop in Chinese tourists, suggests gloomy prospects for spending by foreign visitors to Japan in 2026, according to industry analysts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Travel &amp; Leisure Department store tax-free sales fell in December as China arrivals dropped 45% Japan&#8217;s\u00a0department stores have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[45789,51,169526,16536,1700,29339,65212,19939,21442,8794,16,15,64078],"class_list":{"0":"post-717971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-45789","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-cause","11":"tag-chinese","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-fewer","14":"tag-japanese","15":"tag-outlook","16":"tag-retailers","17":"tag-tourists","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-weaker"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115951164707704213","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}