CHIBA – Boosted by a significant increase in foreign visitors, the number of people entering and departing from Japan via Narita International Airport during this year’s Golden Week rose 12.7 percent from a year earlier to around 910,000, immigration authorities said Tuesday.
Immigration officials attributed the first rise in three years to the weaker yen and an increase in the number of international flights serving the airport.
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