Japan's overseas travel top destinations

Further to writing about Overseas Travel Day, which is today and October 19th annually, I was curious about the ranking of countries and regions that are the destinations of Japan's overseas travel. I found many different reports online, but I couldn't find a universal one. Unfortunately JNTO have stopped publishing their annual report and I feel their 2018 report is probably well out of date by now. 

However, across all reports I read, most had Korea, America and Taiwan in the top three, just in different orders by report. But booking.com's report put America fifth and Thailand as first place. By and large though, Korea came in first place for Overseas travel destination rankings for 2024. Some reports put America as number one, with the vast majority specifically mentioning Hawaii as the most visited destination. The remaining countries on each of the reports where similar across the board, with the following countries making the top ten in most of the reports I read;

• Thailand
• Singapore
• Hong Kong
• Vietnam
• Italy 
• France 
• Philippines

In the 2018 report from JNTO (Japan National Tourist Organization), China (#3) and Germany (#10) made the top 10, but they weren't featured on most recent reports from 2024. Interestingly in 2010 China was the top of the JNTO list and it was 2nd place between 2015 and 2017.