JNTO: U.S. Tourism To Japan Recovered To Pre-Quake Level

Above, a view of Yokohama from Landmark Tower.  Photo by Armand Vaquer.

American tourism to Japan has recovered, despite the effects of the yen's appreciation, to pre-Great East Japan Earthquake level.

The Mainichi posted:

NEW YORK (Kyodo) -- The number of tourists from the United States to Japan has largely recovered to the level before the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami and the subsequent Fukushima nuclear accident, according to a survey by the Japan National Tourism Organization. 

"Considering the effects of the yen's appreciation and the U.S. economic slowdown, we can say that the blows from the quake and the nuclear accident have almost all gone," said Yuki Tanaka, the head of the JNTO's New York office.

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