Monday, 16 January 2012

Hope Springs Eternal in Japan again

Kyoto, Japan - Smiles - lots of smiles. 
That’s what a friend of mine who visited Japan in January was seeing during his 6-day visit.
It appears the lovely Japanese people are finally recovering from the 1-2 punch Mother Nature delivered last March - first an earthquake and then a devastating tsunami.
After a year of staggering from the physical and mental scars left from those overwhelming events, the Japanese have reason to smile again – tourism is beginning to return to pre-disaster levels and everyday life is almost back to normal.
It’s never easy to get tourists to return to countries where political upheaval or natural disasters occur. But Japan appears to bucking that trend because foreign tourists are eager to show their support to this nation, which has suffered so much in the last 100 years.
With cherry blossom season just around the corner, you can expect there will be a lot more smiles being flashed at the tourists who come to this loveliest of all nations in the spring.

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