Nearly one in three Japanese -- 32.4 percent -- say they do not want to see more foreign tourists visiting Japan, with 90.2 percent of them citing a rise in crimes allegedly committed by foreign nationals as the reason, according to a government poll released Saturday.
In contrast, 48.2 percent said they favor an increase in foreign tourists.
The results indicate Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's initiative to double the number of foreign tourists to Japan by 2010 as a way to help spur the economy has little popular support, government officials said.