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The number of foreign visitors to Japan in March was 3,618,900, a 3.5% increase from the same month last year and a new record for March, according to an estimate released by the Japan National Tourism Organization on Wednesday.

Among visitors from East Asia, the number of tourists primarily increased from South Korea and Taiwan, the JNTO said. Southeast Asian visitors increased the most from Vietnam and Malaysia, and among tourists from the Americas and Europe, there was significant growth in visitors from the United States and the United Kingdom.

Tourists from China in March fell by 55.9% year-on-year to 291,600, apparently as a result of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Diet remark in November last year on a possible Taiwan contingency.

The number of tourists from the Middle East fell by 30.6% to 16,700, partly due to canceled and reduced flights as a result of the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran.