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Is it the Tokyo Drift for tourism?
It's World Business Express from the BBC World Service.
I'm Liana Byrne.
We hear from a farmer in South Africa whose livestock have been hit by foot and mouth and inflation in the UK is cooling.
Lots of news coming out of Japan today.
New trade deals being struck with the U.S.
and Sanai Takiichi is being sworn in as Prime Minister.
But there's one set of numbers that caught my eye.
For the first time in four years, the number of visitors to Japan has fallen.
Arrivals in January dropped by almost 5%.
That's 3.6 million people.
That's largely
because far fewer travellers arrived from China as diplomatic tensions between the two countries continue to weigh on demand.
Now,
that because tourism contributes tens of billions of dollars to Japan's economy and is heavily promoted to people overseas.