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JAPAN’S tourism industry is taking a 3,000-strong delegation to China this year, a lawmaker said yesterday, as Tokyo looks to capitalize on its neighbor’s growing appetite for travel.
With ties between the countries starting to thaw after a long freeze, parliamentarian Toshihiro Nikai said the May 22-24 trip was a chance to further improve ties.
“Everyone is hoping to see leaders from Japan and China shake hands. I believe this visit will help improve the current situation,” Nikai told a news conference.
Delegates will include those from the tourism and other business sectors, as well as officials from local governments and cultural bodies.
They are looking to capitalize on the rising number of Chinese traveling abroad each year due to rising incomes and the easing of restrictions on foreign travel.
China has been the world’s fastest growing source of tourists over the past decade and more than 100 million of its nationals are expected to make trips this year, according to the United Nations.
However, this year’s Japanese delegation pales in comparison with past visits by the tourism industry, including a 2002 trip that saw a group of 13,000 visit Beijing.
Since then, ties have plunged to their lowest in decades over competing claims to islets in the East China Sea and Tokyo’s 20th-century history of aggression.
In November, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit for the first time.
Nikai is a member of Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party.
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