Tuesday, 7 April 2015

Visitors to Japan from overseas


 
 
 
 
 

Japan Tourism Marketing Co. (2015)


This line graph shows the number of international visitors to Japan, in millions, from 2010 to 2014. 
In 2010, there were approximately 8.6 million tourists from overseas. This number dropped to about 6.2 million in the next year. It is thought to be related to the impact of the big earthquake which occurred on 11th of March in 2011. After the year, however, there was a steady growth, reaching a peak of about 13 million in 2014, which is more than twice as many as in 2011. According to the Economist (2015), this rise is attributed to the weakness of the yen that was caused by Abenomics, “the plan by prime minister, Sinzo Abe, to boost the economy mainly through central-bank easing.”
Overall, this graph represents the hardship Japan experienced in the disaster and the following effort to improve its economy.


References

Japan Tourism Marketing Co. (2015). The number of foreign tourists to Japan.
         Retrieved from www.tourism.jp/en/statistics/inbound/

Tourism in Japan: Treasure hunt. (2015, March 28). The Economist. Retrieved from
          www.economist.com/news/asia/21647332-economy-gets-boost-record-numbers-  
         visitors-treasure-hunt

 

1 comment:

  1. Akio, I think you have to change the last sentence, because your graph is not about economy but tourism . The script does not have to be analytical, but factual.

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