{"id":84507,"date":"2017-01-10T05:51:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=84507"},"modified":"2017-01-10T05:51:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T10:51:00","slug":"foreign-tourists-to-japan-reach-record-high-24-m-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/10\/foreign-tourists-to-japan-reach-record-high-24-m-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign tourists to Japan reach record high 24-M in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_84508\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84508\" style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Japan.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84508\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Japan.png\" alt=\"Foreign tourists to Japan reach record high 24-M in 2016 (Photo: Moyan Brenn\/Flickr)\" width=\"653\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Japan.png 653w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Japan-300x162.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 653px) 100vw, 653px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-84508\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Foreign tourists to Japan reach record high 24-M in 2016 (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aigle_dore\/16042925878\/in\/photolist-qgrydB-pMeb3j-qrEbWj-pMdYPC-qJ4z1a-qJeaBk-qrM9nt-qrE2Dm-qpj5Ns-qJe6HZ-QowdWF-pMsa4Z-qJe2rH-QawD5f-sMrBa-tiMXf-QuN9no-NFLEWn-pMe6Pj-Qdfqbn-kQ7Mbn-QdfgEz-Qdfh5x-NL2jZK-NACi8p-NjmEuj-Qkdm1q-Qkdbxh-QawCwb-NLEdvj-QdffiM-MZ1uTn-MVgJ4K-NRFrz2-Qh78oC-8LMe5T-Qdfhyt-cruuPj-9pXayf-PiVp4A-PFTWtF-QC9dFB-QyXEgj-QFAyjt-QQB98X-PkSxPe-Lxtn6j-QnmCow-bWG4MM-burqgz\">Moyan Brenn\/Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TOKYO\u2014The number of foreign tourists to Japan reached a record high 24.04 million in 2016, up 22 percent from the previous year and topping 20 million for the first time, the tourism minister said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The pace of increase, however, was slower than 47 percent in 2015, amid a strong yen, China&#8217;s economic slowdown and earthquakes that hit Kumamoto Prefecture in April.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough the pace was slow, it continued to grow firmly. We hope to maintain this momentum by applying various measures,\u201d Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Keiichi Ishii told a press conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO\u2014The number of foreign tourists to Japan reached a record high 24.04 million in 2016, up 22 percent from the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[667,13290,10250],"class_list":["post-84507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-travel","tag-japan","tag-keiichi-ishii","tag-kumamoto-prefecture","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}