Tourists buying up video games, knives in Japan as weak yen boosts spending power – The Mainichi

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1. >TOKYO — The number of visitors to Japan has begun to rise following the lifting of border restrictions on individual travel imposed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, surging to about 500,000 people in October, roughly 2.4 times the previous month’s figure.

   >Meanwhile the yen has sunk to historic lows, and the government hopes this will spur annual visitor spending to 5 trillion yen (around $36.5 billion) in short order. But what exactly are foreign visitors buying in “cheap Japan”?