Japan logs record 21.5 million foreign visitors in H1

TOKYO, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Japan logged 21.5 million foreign visitors in the first half of 2025, passing the 20-million line at a record pace, data released by the Japan National Tourism Organization showed on Wednesday.

The figure for the first six months of the year topped the previous record of 17.78 million set a year earlier, the organization said.

The number of foreign visitors in June came to 3.38 million, up 7.6 percent from a year earlier and the highest ever for the month, data showed.

Meanwhile, a preliminary report from the Japan Tourism Agency showed that spending by foreign visitors to Japan in the April-June quarter rose 18.0 percent year-on-year to around 2.5 trillion yen (about 16.8 billion U.S. dollars).■