Third Tokyo Disney Park Planned

A new Disney theme park is on the way to Southeast Asia.

The announcement comes as Tokyo Disneyland gets ready to celebrate its 25th anniversary.

Oriental Land Co. chairman Toshio Kagami said the company wanted to operate a new leisure facility other than a theme park in Japan.

Tokyo Disneyland opened in the suburbs of the Japanese capital on April 15 1983 as the first Disney theme park outside the United States.

The number of visitors to Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea, the water park that opened in 2001, has stood at about 25 million in recent years, up from 9.9 million people in Disneyland's first year.

Since 1983, a total of 436 million people have visited the two parks.