18840 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 https://japantoday.com/category/national/Number-of-foreign-visitors-to-Japan-rises-7.5-to-2.69-mil-in-JanuaryThe estimated number of foreign visitors to Japan in January increased 7.5 percent from a year earlier to 2,689,400, an all-time high for the month, supported by the relaxation of visa rules for Chinese tourists, official data showed Wednesday. By country and region, visitors from South Korea were....Wed, 20 Feb 2019 22:48:00 +0100japantoday-294e4ddd3814f5b826de3d38937065d720190220224800http://www.newswest9.com/2019/02/20/rare-oarfish-ancient-omens-natural-disaster-captured-by-japanese-fishermen/(CNN) - Japanese fishermen discovered two rare oarfish off the coast of Okinawa, Japan. One fish ripped in half while being loaded onto the ship and was partially eaten by the fishermen, the Japan Times reported. The other died after arriving on land. The two oarfish, about 3.Wed, 20 Feb 2019 17:23:00 +0100newswest9-d16bab02c9d591e9bf6de81a7f6f58e720190220172300http://www.wsfa.com/2019/02/20/rare-oarfish-ancient-omens-natural-disaster-captured-by-japanese-fishermen/(CNN) - Japanese fishermen discovered two rare oarfish off the coast of Okinawa, Japan. One fish ripped in half while being loaded onto the ship and was partially eaten by the fishermen, the Japan Times reported. The other died after arriving on land. The two oarfish, about 3.Wed, 20 Feb 2019 17:10:00 +0100wsfa-d16bab02c9d591e9bf6de81a7f6f58e720190220171000http://www.kswo.com/2019/02/20/rare-oarfish-ancient-omens-natural-disaster-captured-by-japanese-fishermen/(CNN) - Japanese fishermen discovered two rare oarfish off the coast of Okinawa, Japan. One fish ripped in half while being loaded onto the ship and was partially eaten by the fishermen, the Japan Times reported. The other died after arriving on land. The two oarfish, about 3.Wed, 20 Feb 2019 16:59:00 +0100kswo-d16bab02c9d591e9bf6de81a7f6f58e720190220165900