The number of monthly foreign visitors to Japan in September dropped against the previous year for the first time since 2013, with the decline coming after a slew of natural disasters including a large earthquake and damaging typhoon, government data showed Tuesday.
The estimated number of foreign visitors totaled 2,159,600 in September, down 5.3 percent from the year before, according to the Japan Tourism Agency.
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