August foreign entries to Japan at 2.2 million, 85% of pre-pandemic level

Japan saw an estimated 2,156,900 foreign visitors in August, which represents 85.6 percent of the level in the same month in 2019 before the coronavirus outbreak, government data showed Wednesday.A recovery trend continued, with the rate surpassing 80 percent for the first time, according to the Japan National Tourism Organization.Visitors from mainland China totaled 364,100 last month, or 36.4 percent of the pre-pandemic level in 2019, increasing by about 50,000 from July but marking a decline of 63.6 percent from August 2019.China, which lifted restrictions on Japan-bound group travel for…READ FULL ARTICLE