Why do more people travel to China and Korea when much more people seem to like

Japan? Why is Japan much less visited than China and South Korea every year? isn't it mysterious?
Japan has a popular culture like anime and manga. i thought Americans HATED China for political reasons.

maybe because of FUKUSHIMA nuclear disaster !!



Asia and the Pacific[edit source | editbeta]
In 2012, there were over 233.5 million international tourist arrivals to Asia and the Pacific, an increase of 7.0% over 2011. In 2012, the top ten destinations were:[2]
RankCountryInternational
tourist
arrivals
(2012)[6]International
tourist
arrivals
(2011)[6]Change
(2011 to
2012)Change
(2010 to
2011)
1 China57.7 million57.5 million+0.3%+3.4%
2 Malaysia25.0 million24.7 million+1.3%+0.6%
3 Hong Kong, China23.7 million22.3 million+6.5%+11.1%
4 Thailand22.3 million19.2 million+16.2%+20.7%
5 Macau, China13.5 million12.9 million+5.0%+8.4%
6 South Korea11.1 million9.7 million+13.7%+11.3%
7 Japan8.3 million6.2 million+34.6%-27.8%
8 Indonesia8.0 million7.6 million+5.2%+9.2%
9 Taiwan7.3 million6.0 million+20.1%+9.3%
10 Vietnam6.8 million6.0 million+13.9%+19.1%