Japan Tourism Agency, starting on July 1, has restructured its configuration from the three departments and one office to the five departments to strengthen the inbound policy. The new secretariat for the inbound policy and promotion has also been established.
In addition, Japan Tourism Agency invited the director general of the international transport and councilors etc. from METI as the joint appointment to let them assume the inbound policy promotion for jacking up the drive as the overall METI movement.