Fiscal 2017 foreign visitors to Japan reach almost 30 mil.

The estimated number of foreign visitors to Japan in the fiscal year through March 2018 rose 19.9 percent from a year before to 29.77 million amid an increase in low-cost carrier flights connecting Japan to South Korea and other countries, government data showed Wednesday.The figure for the calendar year through December 2018 is highly likely to top 30 million as the number of monthly visitors has continued to outpace that of the previous year, according to the Japan Tourism Agency.The government is targeting 40 million foreign visitors by 2020, when Japan hosts the Tokyo Olympics and Paral…READ FULL ARTICLE