The number of Japanese customers who travelled abroad was down 3.4% from the year earlier

“the number of Japanese tourists to foreign countries shrunk for the third straight year to 15.446 million, down 3.4 percent from the year earlier.”



Source: Foreign visitors to Japan decline in 2009 for first time in 6 years
January 26, 2010
Mainichi Japan
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