Tokyo missing out on US$37bil tourist windfall

Border reopening: People silhouetted as aircraft are pictured on the tarmac of Tokyo International Airport. The Prime Minister recently indicated that a relaxation of border measures would allow the tourists back to Japan in more than two years. — AFP

TOKYO: Japan’s economy is missing out on the key benefactors a sharply weaker yen would normally attract: foreign tourists.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida recently indicated that a relaxation of border measures would allow back the first leisure visitors to Japan in more than two years.