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Visitors to Japan plunge 98.3 per cent in January after entry ban

After non-resident foreign nationals were banned from entering the country, visitors to Japan fell as much as 98.3 per cent in January from a year earlier.It was the 16th straight month of international tourism declining. Sequentially, this is a drop for the first time in 8 months as easing of restrictions in the past few months led to an uptick. In January, visitors from Vietnam made up almost half of the arrivals at 20,000, down 60.3 per cent. Many technical interns from the country entered Japan before the