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Nevertheless Japanese culture, foods, anime, language, and etc., are considered accepted with good impressions among foreign people, it’s true Japan has still very poor number of foreign tourists every year. In order to boost our economy, it’s critically important to have more and more foreign visiters to this country. So how can we attract them?

Here’s the quotation from Daily Yomiuri. My post continues after this article.
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Japan Tourism Agency inaugurated
Taku Iwaki / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer

With the aim of attracting more foreign visitors to this country and helping revitalize local economies, the government on Wednesday launched the Japan Tourism Agency.

The new body is tasked with playing a key role in the government’s plan to build a nation that can thrive on its tourism, in which tourists would help to generate a vibrant source of growth.

The agency–the first government ministry-affiliated body to be established since the Financial Services Agency was established in 2000–was created by upgrading the tourism division of the Construction and Transport Ministry, a division formerly headed by bureau chief-level officials.

It is hoped the agency will break down bureaucratic sectionalism and attract more foreign visitors.

Construction and Transport Minister Kazuyoshi Kaneko on Tuesday appointed Yoshiaki Honpo, 59, head of the ministry’s tourism policy, as the agency’s first director general.

The government believes that pushing tourism is a highly effective way to boost local economies, as tourism creates jobs and increases consumption. The government has set a goal of attracting 20 million tourists in 2020, compared with 8.35 million in 2007.

However, many issues must be addressed if this goal is to be achieved. In 2006, Japan ranked 30th in the world in terms of overseas visitors, and seventh in Asia.

One issue that must be tackled is improvements to the system for accepting visitors from abroad, such as by smoothing accessibility via less stringent screening procedures for visa applications. However, this could bring the agency into conflict with the National Police Agency and the Justice Ministry.

In fact, they are looking for something sold only in Japan. 
Price doesn’t matter as long as the item is Japan original and cannot be purchased in their country, according to a twenty something years old girl on the TV show. 

Japan original Hello Kitty.
Hello Kitty limited item that can only be purchased in Japan.

This is the point.

It looks like our government now owes much to Hello Kitty!!
They collaborate with Sanrio and create more and more original kitty that attracts more foreigners and lead them to this country over and over again.  Hello Kitty has become so important factor to this business…
It’s not just kawaii.  It works for the country!!  *impressed*