{"id":271490,"date":"2024-07-21T13:56:31","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T05:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=271490"},"modified":"2024-07-21T14:03:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T06:03:10","slug":"japan-logged-record-3-14-million-foreign-visitors-in-jun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=271490","title":{"rendered":"Japan Logged Record 3.14 Million Foreign Visitors In Jun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TOKYO, Jul 21 (NNN-NHK) &#8211; Japan logged 3,135,600 foreign visitors in Jun, the highest number ever recorded for a single month, government data showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The figure, crossing the three-million mark for the fourth straight month, represented a 51.2 percent increase, compared to the same month last year, and an 8.9 percent rise from Jun, 2019, according to the latest data from the Japan National Tourism Organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first half of the year, the cumulative number of inbound tourists came to around 17.78 million, also a record high, which was one million more than the figure recorded for the first half of 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The organisation attributed the surge to increasing travel demand during consecutive holidays, including school vacations, across the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan saw the largest number of travellers from South Korea at 703,300, up 29 percent from the pre-pandemic level in 2019, followed by those from China at 660,900, down 25.0 percent, the data showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the number of outbound Japanese travellers in Jun rose 32.3 percent from a year earlier, to 930,200, but was still down 38.8 percent compared with 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, Japanese Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, said, the country could see a record 35 million foreign visitors this year.&#8211; NNN-NHK &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO, Jul 21 (NNN-NHK) &#8211; Japan logged 3,135,600 foreign visitors in Jun, the highest number ever recorded for a single month, government data showed. The figure, crossing the three-million mark for the fourth straight month, represented a 51.2 percent increase, compared to the same month last year, and an 8.9 percent rise from Jun, 2019, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":271492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,300],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271490"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271493,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271490\/revisions\/271493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/271492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}