Help for tourists

Help for tourists

A German tourist is shown a street light button by an officer at an Osaka crossing on Oct. 27, 2017, as part of efforts by the prefectural police force to respond to the increasing number of foreign visitors. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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    Help for tourists

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    Workers strap a sign in English, Chinese and Korean onto a traffic light pole for pedestrian crossing buttons in Osaka on Oct. 27, 2017. The sign, one of approximately 1,300 to be set up around Osaka, is aimed at helping tourists, whose numbers continue to rise. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
      800 march through Nikko street

      800 march through Nikko street

      Around 800 people, some dressed up as warriors, march through an approach to the Toshogu shrine in the eastern Japan tourist city of Nikko on Oct. 17, 2017. The event restages a march in 1617 to rebury the remains of Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the Tokugawa shogunate. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
        800 march through Nikko street

        800 march through Nikko street

        Around 800 people, some dressed up as warriors, march through an approach to the Toshogu shrine in the eastern Japan tourist city of Nikko on Oct. 17, 2017. The event restages a march in 1617 to rebury the remains of Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the Tokugawa shogunate. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
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          800 march through Nikko street

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            Japan sees record foreign visitors, tourist spending in 2016

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                Foreign tourists to Japan reach 20 million in Jan.-Oct.

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                An Eizan Electric Railway train runs through lit-up fall foliage in Kyoto on Nov. 16, 2016. The Japan Tourism Agency said the same day that the estimated total number of foreign visitors to the country reached 20.11 million at the end of October, up 23.3 percent from a year earlier. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
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