Foreign tourists in Japan set to hit record high 30 mil. in 2018

The number of foreign tourists to Japan is set to rise for the seventh straight year and hit a record level of more than 30 million in 2018, the tourism minister said Friday."We are still at the midway point to hitting the goal (of 40 million visitors) but I am glad that the number is steadily growing," Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Keiichi Ishii said at a press conference. "We will strive to promote tourism as much as we can."The government is targeting 40 million foreign visitors by 2020, the year the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics is held. Japan logged an all-time …READ FULL ARTICLE