A Japanese government agency has found that South Koreans made up one third of total visitors from overseas last month. 

According to data released by the Japan National Tourism Organization, some 934-thousand foreign nationals arrived in Japan last month. The figure has almost doubled from October, it said. 

South Koreans took the biggest chunk at some 315-thousand, accounting for 33-point-eight percent of the tally. The number of South Korean tourists shot up two-point-six times from the previous month. The figure is even 53-point-eight percent higher than three years earlier, before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The Japanese government resumed visa waiver programs for 68 countries and regions, including South Korea, on October 11th.