Answer your friend who claims that Japan as an advanced country does not need (1) inbound tourism revenue (2) Japanese regional economies are not affected by the change in inbound tourist numbers (Table 1) (3) Japan has always more travel service debits than credits in percentage GDP (Table 2) (4) Japanese visits abroad against foreign arrivals in Japan always result in deficits in service balance in Japan (Table 3) and (5) for these reasons Japanese inbound tourism has not been affected largely by the coronavirus pandemic