TOKYO -- Shopping sprees by tourists are lifting Japanese department store sales to record highs as the weak yen boosts sales despite a lackluster number of Chinese visitors to Japan.
Duty-free monthly sales hit a record high of 39.49 billion yen ($279 million) on inbound tourism pushed by the weak yen, according to November figures released by the Japan Department Stores Association, which began collecting such data in 2014. The sales were up by 2.3 times from the same month a year before.
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