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Although the National Tourism Organization of Japan failed to reach the target of ten million visitors in 2010, today we know that China broke its record of tourists during the past year, with 8.6 million visits tourists from around the world, who came to see the wonders of Japan’s culture.

The main factors that have allowed the Japanese tourism increased by 26.8 percent, compared with figures for 2009 have been, above all, the beginning of economic recovery after the stake of the crisis and opening to international flights from Haneda Airport in Tokyo, which lies near the center of Japan’s capital than other airports such as Narita.

It is the largest increase recorded by Japanese tourists in the last half century, after rising 40 per cent of visitors in 1970, coinciding with the celebration of the Osaka Expo.

Of all visits recorded, 70 percent are attributed to Asian tourists, from that order, of South Korea, China and Taiwan. France is the European country from which most tourists traveled to Japan in 2010.