Foreign visitors to Japan drop 99.9% in June for 3rd straight month

Japan received an estimated 2,600 foreign travelers in June, posting a year-on-year plunge of 99.9 percent for the third consecutive month amid the coronavirus pandemic, government data showed Wednesday.The total number of foreign visitors fell 76.3 percent to about 3.95 million in the first half of 2020 from a year earlier, with inbound visitors totaling 1,700 in May, marking the lowest figure since 1964 when the government began compiling such statistics, according to the Japan Tourism Agency.Numbers have fallen below 3,000 since April, which saw a total of 2,917 travelers entering the co…READ FULL ARTICLE