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Tourism has rebounded since 2011, when visitor numbers plunged following the massive earthquake and tsunami that ravaged Japan's northeast and sparked a nuclear crisis at the Fukushima power plant in March that year.
The numbers of visitors from Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, France and Russia hit record highs in April, while South Korea topped the list at 204,200, up 33.7 percent from a year earlier.
But the number of visitors from China slumped 33.0 percent to 100,200 for the seventh straight year-on-year decline, amid simmering tensions over Beijing's claims to Tokyo-controlled islands in the East China Sea.
Source-AFP