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The trend of international passenger transport in 1979 is shown in Table
2.
The number of persons entering Japan totaled 5,155,000, up 12.9% over the
previous year (up 9.1% in 1978), the big increase primarily owing to the low
value of the yen. Of which, foreign visitors to Japan numbered 1,113,000, up
7.1 % (up 1.0% in 1978). The number of persons who left Japan totaled 5,164,000
in 1979, up 12.4% (up 9.3% in 1978), surpassing the five million mark for the
first time. Of this, outbound Japanese accounted for 4,038,000 , up 14.6% over
the previous year (up 11.9% in 1978). This two-digit growth was due much to
the rise in exchange rate of yen since the year before, but the number of Japanese
overseas travelers began to level off later in 1979 as a result of repeated
hikes in flight fares and the declining value of the yen from the autumn onward.
In February 1980, the number dropped below the level of the preceding year for
the first time in four years and ten months. The declining trend continued into
the second quarter in 1980. In the first half period of 1980, the number of
Japanese going abroad was down 2.8% to 1,950,000, as compared with the corresponding
period of the preceding year. This contrasted strikingly with the trend of foreign
visitors to Japan.
Domestic passenger transport in FY1979 totaled 51,400 million persons, up 4.1% over the previous year (up 3.8% in FY 1978), and 777,300 million passenger-kilometers, up 4.0% (up 5.1% in FY 1978). Much of the increase was due to the increased use of vehicles and airlines, although the use of JNR declined slightly. For the first time, the total number of domestic passengers topped the 50,000 million mark. (See Table 3)
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