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| Above, shoppers in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Along with having record numbers of foreign visitors, Japan is reaping the benefits from those visitors economically.
The Japan Times reported:
Foreign tourists spent a record-high ¥4.51 trillion ($41.5 billion) in Japan in 2018 as the tourism boom continued in the country, government data showed Wednesday.
Spending by foreign visitors increased for the seventh consecutive year. Average spending per person stood at ¥153,000, the Japan Tourism Agency said in a preliminary report.
The number of foreign visitors to the country reached a record 31.19 million last year, up 8.7 percent from 2017, the agency also said.
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