３月訪日客、１万２３００人　コロナ禍で低迷続く

　日本政府観光局が２１日発表した３月の訪日外国人数（推計値）は前年同月比９３．６％減の１万２３００人だった。新型コロナウイルスの影響がなかった２０１９年３月との比較では９９．６％減。変異株対策で入国規制が強化された影響もあり、前年同月と比べた減少率は１３カ月連続で９０％を超えた。
　観光目的の訪日に加え、技能実習生らの入国も止まっている。国・地域別では、中国が４０００人、韓国が２０００人。今年１月は２万人だったベトナムは２００人にとどまっている。（2021/04/21-17:03）

The estimated number of visitors to Japan in March plunged 93.6 pct from a year before to 12,300, due chiefly to entry restrictions for preventing a spread of variants of the novel coronavirus, government data showed Wednesday.
   The figure was down 99.6 pct from March 2019, before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Japan National Tourism Organization.
   The size of year-on-year drop exceeded 90 pct for the 13th successive month.
   By country or region, the number of visitors from mainland China was largest in the latest reporting month, at 4,000, followed by 2,000 from South Korea and 600 each from Taiwan and the United States.
   Visitors from Vietnam stood at 200, leveling off from February and down sharply compared with some 20,000 in January.