No. of South Korean visitors to Japan plunges nearly 60% in Sept.

The number of South Korean visitors to Japan plunged nearly 60 percent in September from a year earlier, following a 48.0 percent tumble in August, amid frayed ties over wartime history and trade policy, government data showed Wednesday.The estimated number of South Korean tourists fell 58.1 percent to 201,200 in the reporting month, the sharpest drop since May 2011 when the figure plummeted 58.3 percent after the earthquake and tsunami devastated the country on March 11 of that year, the Japan Tourism Agency said.The overall number of foreign visitors rose 5.2 percent to 2,272,900 last mon…READ FULL ARTICLE