By NAOYUKI TAKAHASHI/ Staff Writer
May 21, 2020 at 17:27 JST
Check-in counters are mostly closed at Narita Airport in Chiba Prefecture on April 29. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
The number of foreign visitors to Japan plummeted 99.9 percent to 2,900 from a year earlier in April due to tighter border controls amid the new coronavirus outbreak, the Japan Tourism Agency (JTA) announced on May 20. [Read More]
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