■Weak yen drives foreign visitor numbers to record high：
Buoyed by a weaker yen, foreign visitors flocked to Japan in record numbers in the first half of this year.
Arrivals hit 4.95 million, up 22.8 percent from the same period last year, according to a July 24 report by the Japan National Tourism Organization.
(7/25)(7/24)
(5/17)(5/10)(4/12)
