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Which country’s foreign tourists spend the most money per-person in Japan? Hint: Not the U..S. or China

Casey Baseel
Jul 23, 2026
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One country’s travelers spend more than double the total average for tourists in Japan, and it’s one the Japanese tourism industry hasn’t paid much attention to.

Japan
(COK • Japan Tourism Agency • Japan travel • Mexico • Survey on Inbound Tourism Spending Trends • tourism • travel)

Map of Mexican restaurants across Japan created by Mexican embassy

Casey Baseel
May 11, 2024

Gracias!

Japan
(COK • food • Map • Mexican food • Mexico • restaurants)

Dom Dom turns up the heat with spicy Mexican and Thai chicken burgers

Master Blaster
Jul 28, 2020

Fast food chain uses the magic word of potential spiciness.

Japan
(chicken burgers • DomDom • fast food • massaman curry • Mexico • spicy food • Thailand)

PS4 undercuts Xbox One’s pricing by nearly $200 in Mexico

Preston Phro
Jun 30, 2013

The console war between the Xbox 360 and the PS3 was fairly vicious, with Sony just edging out Microsoft in terms of total global sales.

This time, though, Sony seems to have no intention of letting things run that close. In the United States, Sony has, as you probably know, set the PlayStation 4 price a full $100 lower than the Xbox One. Microsoft, of course, argues that the Kinect more than makes up for the difference, though that’s up to consumers to decide.

But in Mexico, the pricing war has gotten even fiercer. How much fiercer?

C America
(Console Wars • Mexico • pricing • PS4 • Xbox One)

The Mexican street peddlers who make a living selling their wares on the border

Andrew Miller
Jun 18, 2013

The town of Tijuana in Mexico is a rather unique place in the sense that it is located just before the border that separates Mexico and the U.S.. Here you can see souvenir shops boasting a wide array of merchandise. There’s everything from silver jewelry or wrestling goods, right the way across to authentic Mexican tacos. What’s more, the price of goods in Mexico is just one third that of America so it’s easy to see how they could appeal to potential visitors crossing the border. The number of people who come just to get a bargain alone is quite astounding.

Here at RocketNews24 our very own Japanese reporter, Yoshio, went ahead and checked out what all the fuss was about. He reported that of all the things that you’ll come across in Tijuana, there’s one particular spectacle that’s likely to catch your eye…

C America
(border • Mexico • street peddlers)

To Mexico in Chains: The Tale of Three 16th Century Japanese Slaves

Preston Phro
May 15, 2013

In 1597, Japan was reaching the end of the Warring States period and starting to unify under the rule of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi. At the same time, which was 15 years after the Tenshô embassy (the first Japanese embassy to Europe), three Japanese men were completing their (unwilling) journey to Mexico, of all places.

Using records from the Inquisition found in the National Library of Mexico, Lucio de Sousa (University of Evora in Portugal) and Oka Mihoko (University of Tokyo) have discovered conclusive proof of the men’s journey to the New World. They’ve also managed to piece together a few details of their stories.