The line graph illustrates the quantity of overseas visitors who came to Japan for three purposes—business, holiday, visit friends—between 1990 and 2010.
Overall, it is clear that the number of visitors who had different purposes for visiting Japan all showed some fluctuations throughout the given period. Meanwhile, the quantity of business people stayed the highest during this time.
Initially, in 1990, the number of business visitors accounted for 7 million units, and then it reached its highest point with about 10 million units in 2000. For the next ten years, the amount of this fluctuated and decreased to about 9 million units in 2010. Meanwhile, the numbers of holiday and visit friends visitors were lower than that of business people during this period.
In 1990, the quantity of holiday visitors was higher than that of visit friends visitors, with about 5 and 4 million units respectively. However, in 1993, the amounts of them were the same, with 4 million units, then they all had a dramatic rising and reached 7 million units in about 2004 . In 2010, the amount of holiday visitors was still higher than that of visit friends visitors, with 7 and 6 million units respectively.