Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material http://www.staradvertiser.com/2018/05/03/news/estimated-number-of-foreign-visitors-to-japans-national-parks-hit-record-6-million-in-2017/Tokyo >> The estimated number of foreign visitors to the nation’s national parks increased to a new record of 6 million last year, with a park in Kumamoto Prefecture, which was hit by natural disasters in 2016, having enjoyed a boost, the Environment Ministry has announced.Thu, 03 May 2018 12:27:00 +0200HonululuAdvertiser-f4a71ba5f6c8912e00827ba2a7b6ba3dHonululuAdvertiseren39.747292 140.083405NaturalDisastersMie PrefectureNational Parks20180503122700https://www.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=news&p=1394229&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+japantimes+%28The+Japan+Times%3A+All+Stories%29The total number of nights spent by foreign guests in the disaster-hit northeast surpassed the 1 million mark in 2017 for the first time on the back of a continued increase in inbound tourism, according to a recent government survey. The survey by the Japan Tourism Agency showed a cumulative 1.Mon, 16 Apr 2018 12:23:00 +0200japantimes-4f4c1fe147765142f460a6fc39fd29eajapantimesen39.747292 140.083405ManMadeDisastersNuclearEnergyNaturalDisastersTourism Agency20180416122300