Japan's May Tourism Numbers Up 87%

Above, Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park.  Photo by Armand Vaquer.

There is more good news on the status of Japan's tourism industry.

The Daily Yomiuri reports:

The number of people visiting Japan in May shot up 87 percent from a year before to 669,000, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said. 

The surge reflects a sharp rebound from the fall a year earlier in the wake of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami and the crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

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