Korean Tourists To Japan Outnumber Japanese To Korea For First Time

[Mulboyne]

Yonhap: South Koreans visting Japan outnumber Japanese visitors to Korea for first time
South Koreans visiting Japan will outnumber Japanese visitors to South Korea for the first time this year due to Japan's temporary visa waiver and the weak yen, a governmental agency said Friday. Japan National Tourist Organization said 1.96 million South Koreans visited Japan from January through September, compared to 1.64 million Japanese who came to South Korea during the nine-month period. The agency expected about 2.6 million South Korean will visit Japan by the end of this year, compared to 2.2 million Japanese traveling to South Korea...Until 2000, the number of Koreans visiting Japan was about half the number of Japanese visitors to Korea, but Japan increased direct air routes to South Korean cities and allowed Koreans and other Asians to visit Japan for 90 days without a visa in 2005 when the Aichi Expo was held. The number of Japanese visitors to Korea has been dwindling in recent years, partly because the popularity of Korean pop culture in Japan has cooled down, the agency said.

Nice excuse to drop in a old TIME article about Japanese sex tours to Korea: The Seoul of Hospitality (1973)

[Catoneinutica]

[alicia454]

I'm sure that the number of foreign visitors to Japan, including Koreans, will significantly drop due to the criminal humiliation of being fingerprinting and taking mug-shots which is now being imposed by the Japanese Ministry of Justice.

After all, why shouldn't tourists who come to Japan and support the economy here be made to suffer?

They should either abolish Jetro and the foreign Japanese tourist offices including their Yokoso! campaign. Or at least change their slogan from "Welcome Japan" to "Welcome Japan, where we subject all non-Japanese to criminal humiliation".