“May Day,” also known as International Labor Day, is one of seven major holidays celebrated in China. It lasts several days, and many use this time away from work for leisure tourism. This year, many Chinese tourists chose Japan as their preferred destination and spent lavishly to take advantage of the yen’s record depreciation.
Recently, “Chinese tourists spend nearly 300,000 yen ($1,945) per person in Japan” trended on social media in China. Tourism data suggests the Chinese enjoy vacationing in Japan, contradicting the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) efforts to incite nationalist sentiment against Japan. Public opinion also suggests that those who are anti-Japanese are mostly just “living on the internet.”
