TOKYO, (PNA/Kyodo) — The number of foreign visitors to Japan in August broke the record for the month, rising 17.1 percent from a year earlier to 907,000, on the back of the weaker yen, an estimate by the country’s tourism body showed Wednesday.
The previous August record was 803,000 set in 2010, according to the Japan National Tourism Organization.
By country and region, the highest number of tourists came from South Korea at 216,000, up 6.9 percent, followed by Taiwan with 195,000, up 51.5 percent, and by China with 163,000, down 14.6 percent.