Foreign visitors to Japan down for 4th straight month in Jan.

The number of foreign visitors to Japan fell for the fourth straight month in January, down 1.1 percent from a year earlier, government data showed Wednesday, with sharper declines seemingly inevitable in the months ahead due to the new coronavirus outbreak.An estimated 2.66 million foreigners visited Japan, with the number of South Korean tourists continuing to fall sharply as relations between the two countries remain soured by wartime issues, according to the data from the Japan Tourism Agency.Visitors from China hit a record high for the reporting month at 924,800, up 22.6 percent, on t…READ FULL ARTICLE