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The number of visitors to Japan by cruise ships in 2018 dropped 3.3 percent from the previous year to 2,446,000, the first fall since statistics began in 2013, the transport ministry said Friday. The decline came chiefly because the number of visitors departing from China, ...
Police referred 10 men to prosecutors Wednesday for allegedly overturning a small truck during a Halloween event in late October in the busy Shibuya district of Tokyo. The men, aging from their late teens to their 30s, are made up of Japanese and foreign nationals ...
Foreign tourists spent record ¥4.5 trillion in Japan in 2018
Spending by foreign visitors increases for the seventh consecutive year, with the average person spending ¥153,000, the Japan Tourism Agency says in a preliminary report.
The estimated number of overseas visitors to Japan reached a record high 31.19 million in 2018, up 8.7 percent from the previous year and rising for the seventh straight year, the tourism minister said Friday. Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Keiichi Ishii credited the ...
Foreign visitors to Japan up 3.1% in November, but growth slows after disasters
The number of foreign visitors to Japan in November increased 3.1 percent compared with the same month last year, government data showed Wednesday, but the pace of growth has slowed from the double-digit levels seen in the first half of 2018. The estimated number of ...
Foreign tourists in Japan set to hit record 30 million in 2018
The number of foreign tourists to Japan is set to rise for the seventh straight year and hit a record level of more than 30 million in 2018, the tourism minister has said. "We are still on the way to our goal but I am ...
The rate of rental car accidents involving foreign drivers in Osaka Prefecture is four times higher than those involving Japanese drivers, according to recent data released by the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry. A study of foreign drivers conducted by the ministry's Kinki bureau between ...
Growth in number of visitors to Japan remains slow in August due to natural disasters
The estimated number of visitors to Japan in August rose 4.1 percent from a year earlier to 2,577,800, marking slow growth due to recent disasters in the country as well as scorching summer heat, the Japan National Tourism Organization said Wednesday. A powerful earthquake in ...
'Tourists' evacuated by boat for first time in Tokyo earthquake drill
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government on Sunday conducted a disaster drill based on a scenario in which a powerful earthquake strikes the capital. The exercise was the first to involve the evacuation of foreign tourists by ship. To transport visitors from abroad, the government used vessels ...
Foreign visitors to Japan hit 20 million this year at record pace
The number of foreign visitors to Japan has reached an estimated 20 million in 2018 at its quickest annual pace, particularly helped by Chinese tourists, the government said Monday. The figure topped the 20 million mark last Wednesday, one month earlier than the previous record ...
Wannabe ninja swamp Japan town with job inquiries after viral mix-up
The city of Iga, in Mie Prefecture, has been left fighting off wannabe ninja after a news report on local labor shortages that suggested it wanted to hire the traditional assassins went viral. Iga was featured in a report by American radio station NPR this ...
Number of foreign visitors to Japan up 15.6% in first half of 2018
The estimated number of foreign visitors to Japan from January to June rose 15.6 percent from the same period a year earlier to 15.89 million, a record for the first half of the year, the Japan Tourism Agency said Wednesday. If the pace of increase ...
