Japan eyes tripling foreign visitors to disaster-hit Tohoku in 2020

Japan eyes tripling foreign visitors to disaster-hit Tohoku in 2020

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on March 10, 2016, on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the devastating March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami which triggered the Fukushima nuclear disaster days afterward. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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