About 9.15 million foreign nationals visited Japan in 2007, up 12.9 percent from the previous year, a record high, the Justice Ministry said in Tokyo based on preliminary data. “The number of travelers from Asian countries continued to rise, possibly because of an impact from the tourism enforcement policy,” said an official of the ministry’s Immigration Bureau. Though Japan introduced a new immigration control system on November 20 that requires foreign visitors to be fingerprinted and photographed on arrival.

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