TOKYO, Nov 16 (Reuters) - The number of foreign visitors to Japan rose to nearly 500,000 in October, the first month it fully reopened to overseas visitors after more than two years of COVID ...

Within days of China urging its citizens not to travel to Japan due to a diplomatic dispute, Tokyo-based tour operator East ...

Workers erect a barrier to block the view of a popular Mount Fuji photo spot, near a convenience store in Fujikawaguchiko town, Yamanashi prefecture, Japan REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon Tourism has become a ...

On 22 September 2022, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida delivered a speech at the New York Stock Exchange declaring that Japan will relax border control measures and resume visa-free and ...

Veteran tour guide Itsuo Okada examines a canister used for storing matcha tea in Kyoto. It's been just a year since Japan reopened its borders to international travel after the pandemic. But tourism ...

In the month of April 2023 alone, nearly 184,000 Americans visited Japan, an 8 percent increase over April 2019. The Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) announced that American visitor arrivals ...

Japan is still shaking off the lingering effects of its long and strict lockdowns. Japan is having trouble servicing tourists arriving from abroad due to staffing shortages, amid surging demand for ...

Japanese travelers have been grappling recently with a problem: the absence of visa-free travel to China. Before COVID-19, Japanese did not need a visa to enter China, but Beijing suspended that ...