YANGON (Kyodo) Japanese tourists who visited Myanmar in the first nine months of 2008 declined 68 percent compared with the same period in 2007, official figures showed Thursday.
Japanese nationals who arrived in the country on tourist visas from January to September last year numbered 2,960, compared with 9,319 for the same period in 2007, according to figures from Myanmar’s National Planning Ministry.
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