Based on the official statistics of four East Asian markets in September 2015, China and Korea reduced Japanese visitors by 5.1% year on year to 208,100 and by 19.9% to 157,300 respectively, while Taiwan and Hong Kong increased those by 3.7% to 145,800 and by 6.8% to 104,400.
Among the four East Asian markets, Hong Kong resulted in the highest growth for the first time since November 2013. Korea restored Japanese visitors from the monthly reduction of 52.6% in July 2015, and China had stably maintained 200,000 or more Japanese visitors since May 2015. The following table shows changes of Japanese visitors to the four markets in the last 12 months.
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