The estimated number of foreign visitors to Japan totaled 18,916,200 in the first eight months of this year, a record for the period, the Japan Tourism Agency said Wednesday. The number continued to increase this month and topped 20 million as of Sept. 15, 45 ...
The number of foreign visitors to Japan hit a monthly record of 2.68 million in July, due to the summer vacation season and an increase in low-cost carrier flights, the Japan Tourism Agency said Wednesday. A total of 2,681,500 travelers visited the country from overseas, ...
Foreign visitors racked up a record 7.86 million hotel and inn stays in April, thanks largely to the Easter holidays and the cherry blossom season, the Japan Tourism Agency said Friday. The figure, up 16.0 percent from a year ago, was the highest for any ...
The estimated number of foreign visitors to Japan reached 2,294,700 last month, up 21.2 percent from a year earlier, the highest number ever for the month of May, the Japan Tourism Agency said Wednesday. The agency attributed the rise mainly to an 85 percent increase ...
Japan drew a significant increase in foreign visitors during the January to March quarter, but spending per person fell, government data show. The Japan Tourism Agency said Wednesday that an estimated 6,537,200 people visited Japan in the first quarter of 2017, up 13.6 percent from ...
Hotel stays by visitors to Japan rose an estimated 8 percent to a record 70.88 million in 2016 as the government's tourism drive bore more fruit, the Japan Tourism Agency said in a preliminary report Friday. Foreign visitors accounted for 14.3 percent of all 494.18 ...
The estimated number of foreign visitors to Japan in the first 11 months of 2016 reached 21.99 million, up 22.4 percent from a year earlier, the Japan Tourism Agency said Wednesday. In November alone, the figure rose 13.8 percent from the year before to 1.88 ...
Visitor to Japan from abroad in August rise from a year earlier, topping 2 million for the second straight month.
As part of the effort to boost regional economies, the Japan Tourism Agency plans to seek an exemption for domestically produced alcoholic drinks such as sake from the liquor tax when purchased by foreign tourists, agency officials said Saturday. The agency will call for the ...
Foreign visitors surge by more than a quarter from January through July compared with the first half of 2015.
A massive data breach at Japan's largest travel agency has underscored the risks companies face when they keep sensitive data on networks connected to the internet, experts say. Some warn government systems are especially vulnerable to state-sponsored attack, including by China and North Korea. JTB ...
But a tally of countries that hosted international meetings says that Japan ranked seventh globally in 2015.
