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Japan eager to welcome tourists from abroad amid cheap yen

A store clerk looks at souvenir items on sale at an Akky store in the Akihabara electronics district in Tokyo on Oct. 3, 2022. Individual travelers will be able to visit Japan without visas beginning Tuesday, Oct. 11, just like in pre-COVID-19 times. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama) Akky International Corp. Chief Executive Hideyuki Abe looks around his store in the Akihbara electronics district of Tokyo on Oct. 3, 2022. Individual travelers will be able to visit Japan without visas beginning Tuesday, Oct. 11, just like in pre-COVID-19 times. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama) FILE - Tourists pose for photos at the entrance to Sensoji Temple on Jan. 30, 2020, in Tokyo. Individual travelers will be able to visit Japan without visas beginning Tuesday, Oct. 11, just like in pre-COVID-19 times. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File) FILE - A tour guide wearing a protective mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus holds a banner showing an assembly time for her tour group near a shopping street at the Asakusa district on June 10, 2022, in Tokyo. Individual travelers will be able to visit Japan without visas beginning Tuesday, Oct. 11, just like in pre-COVID-19 times. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File) FILE - A tourist is surrounded by deer in Nara, western Japan, on Oct. 15, 2005. Individual travelers will be able to visit Japan without visas beginning Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022, just like in pre-COVID-19 times. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa, File) FILE - Thai travelers Korranut Nuntanatamon, front, takes selfies with Tidarat Margsree, from left, Sorrasek Thuantawee and Kantpong Madeecharoenporn after check-in for their trip to Osaka and Tokyo, at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Samut Prakarn province, Thailand, on June 23, 2022. Individual travelers will be able to visit Japan without visas beginning Tuesday, Oct. 11, just like in pre-COVID-19 times. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File) FILE - People walk along a pedestrian crossing in the tourist district of Asakusa, near the landmark Tokyo Skytree tower in Tokyo, Japan on July 31, 2021. Individual travelers will be able to visit Japan without visas beginning Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022, just like in pre-COVID-19 times. (AP Photo/Kantaro Komiya, File) FILE - Tourists pause for photos in front of Todaiji temple's main hall in Nara, Japan, March 17, 2020. Individual travelers will be able to visit Japan without visas beginning Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022, just like in pre-COVID-19 times. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File) Akky International Corp. Chief Executive Hideyuki Abe looks around his store in the Akihbara electronics district of Tokyo on Oct. 3, 2022. Individual travelers will be able to visit Japan without visas beginning Tuesday, Oct. 11, just like in pre-COVID-19 times. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama) FILE - Visitors walk along a shopping street at the Asakusa district on June 10, 2022, in Tokyo. Individual travelers will be able to visit Japan without visas beginning Tuesday, Oct. 11, just like in pre-COVID-19 times. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)