Latest News Australia targets double-digit growth of Japanese visitors in 2016 with an increase in air seats Sep 25, 2015 Japan’s leading travel company H.I.S. starts providing online translation service for tourism product suppliers Sep 25, 2015 Japan Tourism Marketing survey shows the ratio of Thai regular travelers to Japan is close to 70% Sep 24, 2015 Japanese overseas travelers continuously reduced by 7.6% to 1.65 million in August 2015 Sep 24, 2015 Foreign visitors to Japan were up 60% to 1.82 million in August 2015 Sep 23, 2015 What freshly happens on JATA Tourism EXPO Japan in 2015? Sep 22, 2015 No.1 tweeted city in Japan by foreign travelers is Shibuya Sep 18, 2015 More than 40% of tourism industries in Japan see SNS in foreign languages as the next challenge Sep 18, 2015 A share of foreigner overnights in Kyoto reach 40% of the total in July 2015 Sep 18, 2015 Travel surplus of Japan's international trade balance expands to 129.5 billion JPY in July 2015 Sep 16, 2015 The prefecture with the most tourism promotion budget in 2015 is Tokyo, followed by Okinawa Sep 16, 2015 Economic impact on Tokyo by tourism is estimated at 12 trillion JPY in 2014 Sep 14, 2015 Times spent on LINE and Instagram grow in Japan, and both of the SNS are top two in satisfaction Sep 12, 2015 Japan Tourism Agency adds disaster information in its providing app ‘Safety tips’ for foreign visitors Sep 10, 2015 The sharing economy market scale of Japan is expected to double to 29 billion JPY in 2015 Sep 09, 2015 The most popular overseas destination for Japanese is Honolulu in H.I.S. bookings for this coming Silver Week Sep 08, 2015 Times spent on LINE and Instagram grow in Japan, and both of the SNS are top two in satisfaction Sep 07, 2015 Consumption of travel in Japan increased by 18.3% to 5.6 trillion JPY for the second quarter of 2015 Sep 05, 2015 Isetan department store is the most popular shopping place among Chinese travelers for a reason of its language service Sep 04, 2015 The ratio of internet users on smart phones only is around 30% for 20’s to 40’s and 45% for teens in Japan - Nielsen survey Sep 03, 2015 Osaka is more popular among Asian travelers than Tokyo - Expedia Japan survey Sep 03, 2015 Comparison of travel transactions among top five Japanese travel agents in June 2015 Sep 02, 2015 Comparison of Japanese travelers among Australia, Canada and New Zealand in March 2015 Sep 02, 2015 Comparison of Japanese travelers between Hawaii and to Okinawa in June 2015 Sep 01, 2015 Tokyo will be more serious than any other prefectures in shortage of hotels in 2020 Aug 29, 2015 The top e-commerce website was Amazon in the user rate and Rakuten in frequency of use and purchase in July 2015 Aug 28, 2015 Comparison of visitors to Japan from Australia, U.S.A. and U.K. for the first half of 2015 Aug 27, 2015 Online dealing of travel on mobile accounts for about 40% of the total in Japan - Criteo survey Aug 26, 2015 Japanese overseas travelers resulted in a year-to-date decrease of 5.1% including a decrease of 6.7% in July 2015 Aug 24, 2015 Foreign visitors to Japan already total more than 11 million adding record-high 1.92 million for July 2015 Aug 24, 2015 Comparison of visitors to Japan from Korea, China, Taiwan and Hong Kong in June 2015 Aug 22, 2015 Travel spending in Japan by foreign visitors resulted in increase of 82.5% for the first quarter of FY2015 Aug 20, 2015 Yahoo! JAPAN is the No.1 website in the unique user ranking for the first half of 2015 - VALUES survey Aug 20, 2015 Overnight foreign travelers from East Asia in Kyoto accounted for 46% of the total in June 2015 Aug 19, 2015 Universal Studio Japan ranks 2nd with an increase of 21% in theme park visitor in 2015, following Tokyo Disneyland Aug 18, 2015 Japan’s leading OTA Rakuten Travel resulted in record-high transactions for the 2nd quarter of FY2015 Aug 15, 2015 Bookings in the Silver Week triples for travel in Japan and doubles for overseas travel on Japan’s leading OTA Rakuten Aug 13, 2015 ‘Travel alone’ was overwhelmingly searched on Google in Japan for the summer holiday of 2015 Aug 12, 2015 Japan Tourism Agency points out issues on the sharing economy marketplace for private houses including airbnb Aug 12, 2015 Japanese traffic information provider Hyojito launches a duty-free search website for foreign visitors to Japan Aug 11, 2015 Leisure White Paper 2015 says the leisure market value of Japan slightly increased to 73 trillion JPN Aug 08, 2015 The Japanese luxury resort company Hoshino Resort acquires four ANA Crown Plaza properties at about 40 billion JPY Aug 08, 2015 JTB Report 2015 forecasts inbound travelers to Japan will outnumber outbound travelers from Japan this year Aug 07, 2015 Year-to-date Comparison of visitors from four Southeast markets to Japan by June 2015 Aug 07, 2015 Booking.com to expand its business in Japan with a goal to increase contract hotels 10,000 by the end of 2016 Aug 06, 2015 Comparison of travel sales among top five Japanese companies in May 2015, H.I.S. doubled sales for inbound travel Aug 05, 2015 A share of young male LCC users exceeds 50% in Japan - JTM survey Aug 03, 2015 Rakuten CEO is optimistic about 100 million foreign visitors to Japan, accelerated by LCC and communication infrastructure development Aug 01, 2015 JTB starts its first electric ticket service on smart phone in tie-ups with Paypal Jul 31, 2015 ASEAN students in Japan contributes to a new tourism information media for foreign travelers to Japan Jul 31, 2015