Recently numbers of travelers to Japan has been on the increase for a long time. According to recent statistics, the numbers of last year went down under 7 million travelers.

For the last 4 years, it’s been more than 7 million. This big reduction in numbers is mainly because of the financial crisis, which led higher Japanese Yen rate. The report says so.

Japan’s target of tourist numbers from overseas is, at this stage, 10 million people, and they want to realize it by 2015.

Asian countries are located far from America or Europe, that’s why the increase of tourist number always depends on nighbour Asian countries like China or South Korea, and Taiwan.

Sooner or later it will be more than 10 millon travelers a year because Asian countries will more grow rich. But tourism often depends on promotion or good information to the world. But I don’t know if Japan can create more Japan fans even if they promote Japan more to the world.

Now popular tour purpose of world travelers to Japan are food, pop culture, technology, or sightseeing of old cities.

I like Japan and I think Japan has many things for tourists, but in fact, I’m not sure if Japan has more attractive aspects than Asian popular destinations like China, India, Thai or Indonesia.

I like traveling in Japan, but when compared to them, I don’t think travelers choose Japan first of all for their destination.