Foreign tourists spend record 4.8 tril. yen in Japan in 2019

Foreign tourists in Japan spent a record 4.81 trillion yen ($43.6 billion) in 2019 in line with a continued increase in visitors, government data showed Friday.Their spending rose 6.5 percent from 2018, increasing for the seventh consecutive year, the Japan Tourism Agency said in a preliminary report.The number of foreign visitors marked an all-time high of 31.88 million last year, but the margin of growth slowed to 2.2 percent from 8.7 percent in 2018 as South Korean tourists dropped sharply due to a deterioration in bilateral ties, the agency said.Visitors from South Korea fell 25.9 perce…READ FULL ARTICLE