Tokyo: The number of foreign tourists to visit Okinawa in April dropped to zero for the first time since the prefecture returned to Japan in May of 1972, the prefectural government announced.
The Okinawa government attributed the drop – from about 250,000 recorded in the same month last year – to factors such as the restriction policy on entry into Japan due to the spread of Covid-19.
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