Disaster-hit Japan sees 1st drop in visitors in over 5 years in Sept.

The number of monthly foreign visitors to Japan dropped for the first time since 2013 in September, the fall coming after a slew of natural disasters including a large earthquake and damaging typhoon, government data showed Tuesday.The estimated number of foreign visitors totaled 2,159,600 in September, down 5.3 percent from the year before, according to the Japan Tourism Agency.The figure reflects the impact of a magnitude 6.7 earthquake that rocked Japan's northernmost island prefecture of Hokkaido on Sept. 6, killing more than 40 people and triggering a prefecture-wide blackout, the agen…READ FULL ARTICLE