Political relations and bilateral tourism demand: The case of China and Japan

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jen‐Je Su ◽  
Tien Duc Pham ◽  
Larry Dwyer
Keyword(s):  
Tourism Demand ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
China And Japan

scholarly journals Geopolitical-Risk and Economic Policy–Uncertainty Impacts on Tourist Flows from Neighboring Countries: A Wavelet Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 13751
Author(s):  
Alisa Kazakova ◽  
Insin Kim
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Tourism Demand ◽  
Economic Policy Uncertainty ◽  
China And Japan ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Wavelet Coherency ◽  
Geopolitical Risks

This paper investigates the nexus of geopolitical risks (GPRs), economic policy uncertainty (EPU), and tourist arrivals in South Korea. Specifically, this research examines whether arrivals from neighboring tourism source countries (i.e., China and Japan) are influenced by geopolitical events and economic volatilities in South Korea. To establish the research purpose, we investigated the relationships among GPRs, EPU, and tourism demand by using monthly data from January 2003 to November 2019. Additionally, innovative techniques (continuous wavelets, wavelet coherency, and wavelet phase difference) were employed, which allow the decomposition of time series considering different time and frequency components. The results demonstrate inconsistent and heterogeneous co-movements between variables that are localized across different time periods and frequencies. In addition, we detected several significant coherencies that prove the important role of GPR and EPU in explaining changes in the numbers of tourists arriving in South Korea from China and Japan. In terms of time domain, negative and positive correlations in tourism demand were detected, meaning that economic and geopolitical shocks may not always lead to negative consequences. From the frequency domain, the causal effects of GPR mostly appear to have short- to mid-run implications, with almost no relationship in the low-frequency band, whereas EPU holds a heterogeneous influence varying short-term to long-term, including higher to lower frequencies. Results show the resilience of the tourism industry against the transient effects of economic and geopolitical shocks. Tourists become adversely affected by external events such as geopolitical risks and economic uncertainties, but the impact is not consistent over time for tourists from countries neighboring Korea. The findings provide a deeper understanding of how crisis events, including political instability and economic fluctuations, can affect inbound tourism in geographically and historically interrelated countries. Therefore, to minimize the negative effect on tourism demand, it is important for practitioners to consider potential external threats when making forecasts.

scholarly journals Engagement and Reflexivity: Approaches to Chinese-Japanese Political Relations by Chinese Students in Japan

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herby Lai
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Students ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Japanese People ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Patriotic Education ◽  
China And Japan ◽  
Willingness To Engage

Amidst political tensions between China and Japan, and against the backdrop of the patriotic education campaign in China that promotes a negative image of Japan as the victimiser, Chinese students in Japanese educational institutions study and work in Japan in a highly politicised context. In general, how they chose to interpret their experiences in Japan, and their views on history and controversial political issues involving China and Japan, demonstrates two levels of cosmopolitanism – namely, the ability and the willingness to engage with Japanese people on such issues, and reflexivity towards their own national identities. Meanwhile, some informants would deliberately avoid talking about history and controversial political issues involving China and Japan. While they lacked the willingness to engage with Japanese people on controversial issues, their keenness to separate their daily lives in Japan from the political context means they were also engaged in a reflexive reconfiguration of their national identities.

scholarly journals CHINA AND JAPAN: TERRITORIAL CONFLICT OR REGIONAL COOPERATION?

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 162-171
Author(s):  
A. D. Dikarev
Keyword(s):  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Chinese Foreign Policy ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Territorial Conflict ◽  
Double Standards ◽  
Territorial Conflicts ◽  
Open Sea ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Chinese Policy ◽  
China And Japan

About some recent trends in economic and political relations between Japan and China. The opinions and conclusions of Western Russian and Japanese scholars with regard to the Chinese policy of Shinzo Abe government and Japanese aspects of Chinese foreign policy under Xi Jinping are considered. Special attention is paid to the ambiguous attitudes of both states to territorial conflicts and their strategy of exploration of islands in the open sea. Evident traces of “double standards“ can be revealed in the political declarations and actions of both countries. Controversies between China and Japan are dangerously aggravating especially with a prospect of strengthening China’s positions in the Asia-Pacific region. Nevertheless solving of territorial question will depend mainly on the outcome of economic rather than military competition between China and Japan.

Fishing with cormorants

1997 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTINE E. JACKSON
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
China And Japan

Using cormorants to catch fishes has been a means of livelihood in China and Japan for centuries. As a sport enjoyed by fishermen it has been practised in the West only intermittently. The methods of training the birds which were used in each country, both in the east and the west, varied considerably, although all the training was based on the cormorant's natural ability to swim underwater in the pursuit of fishes, to catch hold of one in the notched beak and carry it to the surface. Left to its own devices, the cormorant then manoeuvres the fish in order to swallow it whole, head first. While it is chasing the fishes underwater, a shoal is dispersed in panic and some rise to the surface, an advantage exploited by the Italian sport of shooting fishes raised by the cormorants. In other countries cormorants arc trained to bring the fish to the fisherman's hand.

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