Ghost story: ”July earthquake” still brings foreign visitors to Japan... Who is the ”number 1” foreigner visiting Japan? = Korean report

"A big earthquake will occur in Japan in July." The ghost story that started with the prophecy in "The Future I Saw" by Japanese manga artist Ryo Tatsuki has led to a decrease in the number of Hong Kong people visiting Japan.
However, the number of visitors from other countries continues to increase. According to the Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) on the 18th, the total number of foreign visitors to Japan last month (May) was 3,693,300, down from the same period last year.
The number of visitors to Japan by country increased by 21.5 percentage points from the previous month. Of these, South Koreans accounted for the largest number at 825,800, putting them first in the list of foreign visitors to Japan by country for the first time in two months.
Next were Chinese with 789,900, Taiwanese with 538,400, and Americans with 311,900.
In addition, when looking at the cumulative number of foreign visitors to Japan by nation this year, Koreans ranked first with 4,053,600 people.
Meanwhile, Hong Kongers' total population was just 193,100, down 11.2 percentage points compared to the same month last year, making it the only major country to see a "decrease."
The Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported that, "The spread of rumours based on unclear grounds that 'a major disaster will occur in Japan' has led to a rise in people coming to Japan.
"This is due to an increase in people refraining from traveling to other areas," he said. Tatsuki, author of "The Future I Saw," is famous for predicting the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011.
In the cartoon, he claimed that "on July 5, 2025, a tsunami three times larger than the Great East Japan Earthquake will occur," and the rumor spread rapidly in Hong Kong.