In response to the original post; Japan is a country run by a democratic, virtuous, harmonious and intelligent regime. It does not condone corruption or allow 1% of the population to have 95% of the wealth nor does it impliment systems to keep 99% of the population at the intelligence level of a jelly fish. But the overiding factor has to be that Japans tourism authority is run by people who know what they're doing and don't come out with stupid speculative figures, don't rant on about how many trillions of yen each tourist will spend and don't have a completely self-serving, utterly incompetent organisation with the initials of TAT.