TOKYO -- South Korean travelers shunned Japanese destinations last year after bilateral relations soured, bucking a tourism trend that produced a record number of foreign visitors to Japan in 2019.
New arrivals from South Korea plummeted by 27.1% to 5.34 million during 2019, official Japanese data released Friday shows, the first drop in visitors from the Asian neighbor in eight years. Tourist numbers plunged by over 50% on the year for each month since August.
