Japan sees nearly 1.5 million visitors in January as tourism recovers
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Tourists from Taiwan in traditional Japanese wear in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Jan 9, 2023.
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TOKYO - Visitors to Japan climbed to nearly 1.5 million in January, said the national tourism agency on Wednesday.
This shows an accelerating recovery in tourism after the government scrapped Covid-19 curbs in October 2022.
The number of foreign visitors for both business and leisure rose to 1,497,300 last month from 1,370,000 in December, the Japan National Tourism Organisation said in a release. More than a third of the arrivals were from South Korea.
Arrivals were down 44 per cent from January 2019, before the pandemic hit. REUTERS
