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2. In 2019 efforts to welcome foreigners will become more frenzied as Tokyo prepares to host the Rugby World Cup in the autumn and, in summer 2020, the Olympics and Paralympics. Getting people to come is unlikely to prove difficult, although the government would like more Westerners in the mix. It reckons they would spend more than Asians, who currently make up around 85% of visitors. Some 29m people visited in 2017, and the number is growing: more came in the first four months of 2018 than in the whole of 2013.

3. Rather, in 2019 efforts will concentrate on making the country more tourist-friendly once foreigners arrive—in the hope they stay longer and spend more, or come back again. One goal is to make the country easier to navigate without speaking Japanese. Already taxi drivers have been given translation sheets to help them communicate with foreigners. Signage around cities is increasingly in English as well as Japanese. Language lessons for hotel workers and the like are under way but take time; in the meantime they are being armed with translation apps.

1.navigate

🥕(为...)导航，指引方向

When travelling on fast roads at night it is impossible to drive and navigate at the same time.

🥕deal with（应对、处理）

There’s no one I trust more to navigate these tricky political situations.

3.and the like/and such like

and so on

Soldiers, policemen, and the like were all called in to help with the emergency.

4.Under way

happening now

Rescue efforts are already well underway.

Your peace will be shattered when the tourist season gets underway (=starts).

5.arm

equip

arm sb with sth.

The guidebook arms the reader with a mass of useful information.

They are being armed with translation apps.