Visa requirements eased, Japan tourism counts increased

Japan-China-diplomacy-tourism Contributed by NAMPA / AFP. Japan tourism industry to take 3,000 to China Tokyo, Feb 25, 2015 (AFP) - Japan's tourism industry is taking a 3,000-strong delegation to China this year, a lawmaker said Wednesday, as ...

The number of Japanese holidaymakers visiting the tourist island of Bali has increased sharply so far this year. "The number of holidaymakers from Japan surged 25 percent in early 2015 after a shrinking trend earlier," a tourist guide for ...

By Shuli Ren No visitors will feel welcome if they are called locusts. The weekend before the Chinese New Year, a group of Hong Kong residents haggled mainland Chinese tourists in a local shopping mall, yelling at them to go home and waving a ...

LETTER OF THE WEEK Allow me to describe to you some recent examples of bad behaviour by Australians in the mountains of Japan where my family and I are currently holidaying. Whilst enjoying my last run of the day, I came across two Australian ...

The Northern Marianas government is calling on the tourism body to come up with a plan to bring in more Japanese tourists and stimulate the economy. Asian tourists on a CNMI beach Photo: RNZ / Mark Rabago A representative, Joseph Lee Pan ...

Photo credit: france24.com On February 26, Global Times , a Chinese state-run outlet, published an editorial in both Chinese and English decrying a horrible habit many Chinese have fallen prey to: buying Japanese toilet seats. Quoting Japanese ...

By , SAPPORO, JAPAN — Chinese tourists come to Japan for the sushi and for the shopping. But increasingly, theyre also coming for one thing that money can't buy: fresh air. The blue sky and the clean air are great. Theyre something we ...

TOKYO: Japan does not celebrate Chinese New Year, but it is trying hard to capitalise on the influx of overseas visitors during the festive period. The focus on attracting foreign consumers is still quite a new enterprise in Japan, which has ...

Kuala Lumpur: The Asean-Japan Centre (AJC), formerly known as the Asean Promotion Centre on Trade, Investment and Tourism will continue to invite top-ranking Asean officials and experts to Tokyo and other cities to update them on their respective ...