Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) announced that the number of the foreigners who visited Japan last year reached 8,612,000 people which was the most in history.
The most foreigners were from Korea, and the number is about 2,440,000 people. Next was from China, and the number is 1,410,000 people which was 40% more than last year.
From Thailand, Singapore, France, and Malaysia, most people ever came to Japan.
But since the latter half, there were problems of high yen and Senkaku shoto (尖閣諸島: Senkaku islands), the number of Chinese has been decreased.
Japanese Govenment has aimed to attract 10,000,000 people by 2010 and had a campaign called Yokoso Japan (ようこそジャパン: Welcome to Japan). But this goal was not fulfilled.
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